Caveat: Due to time restrictions, this is not a comprehensive list, although ideally will evolve & increase. The nervous system can be compared to a command center that sends electromagnetic signals to your brain, spine, and nerves, coordinating sensation, breathing, heartbeat, movement, sight, digestion, and more. Impairment or dysregulation of the nervous system can lead … Read more
About 36 studies total were examined and used to suggest tobacco was harmful in 1964, leading the surgeon general to issue a warning. Today, we have many more high quality studies on legal wireless and electrical radiation exposures, with the majority showing effects – usually only industry-funded studies find nothing. Many so-called expert groups are … Read more
Announcing a MA ballot committee, Safer Tech at LastTreeLaws.com Elon Musk is right: we need more children and more people. But we don’t need them to run a corporate machine; we need people who can care. Real care means nurturing children, nourishing forests, helping the disabled, and conserving limited and valuable resources. However, we cannot … Read more
While this isn’t part of a campaign for legislation, here is my personal testimony on 22 October, 2025, to the Massachusetts legislature’s Emergency Preparedness committee. The hearing is recorded with the bill sponsor Durant early at -1:47:33 and the rest starting at -1:31:37 with many excellent testimonies both with personal stories and with convincing research … Read more
The following testimony was shared orally in abbreviated form at a public hearing June 12, 2025 – starting at -34:15 in this video – only 3 minutes time was allowed. Additional excellent testimony was also provided by other organizations beginning at -48:08 through -22:02. Resident Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International has focused on this … Read more
The following testimony was shared orally in abbreviated form at a public hearing June 2025 – starting at 1:03:54 at this video – only 2 minutes time was allowed. S463 An Act regulating screen time and technology privacy in early and K-12 education. My name is Kirstin Beatty. I formerly taught in our public schools. … Read more
Your support is needed for Mass. bill S463 which eliminates tech cross-curricular mandates and covers improving early ed & K-12: Written testimony prepared for submission to the MA legislature can be found here. You can support this bill by: Written testimony details are listed here and at the bottom of this email. Please note that … Read more
A SAMPLE OF SCIENTISTS WITH CONCERNS: – Dr. Robert Becker, MD (1923 – 2008), became famous for bringing media and a generation’s attention to the dangers of high-voltage power lines. Despite his hitherto successful career, he lost his research contracts and retired early because by speaking out he angered both business and government, including the … Read more
Scroll down for sample amendments to limit the smart grid. Why? As far back as 2014, warnings were filed with the DPU that people were getting very sick from the ‘smart’ grid – such as Dr. Robert Pontius Gilmore who was one of four members appointed by Clark University to examine the technologies; Dr. William … Read more
Even if you set aside thousands of studies showing wireless harms wildlife, wireless is a known security risk. We need legislators, in the very brief time available now before the session for major bills ends on 31 July 2022, to propose the below amendments to wire broadband and telecommunications in nursing homes, soldier’s homes, schools, … Read more
Frequently Asked Questions Reprinted with permission, with extra italicized parts added by K. Beatty. Arthur Firstenberg, director of the Cellphone Task Force, prepared this Q&A (posted on the site under newsletters) with a focus on cellphones, to invite support for an EchoEarth.org petition to cut cellphone use.
Massachusetts bill S.186 to investigate electromagnetic exposures from technology could be redesigned to promote transparency & better representation, as suggested below. If not amended, a whitewash is likely, while with amendments this is still possible but less so. The following are 6 proposed S.186 amendments, for which feedback is welcome (esp. #V, VI). These could … Read more
The following letter was testimony for a 2021-22 bill that died. Scroll to bottom for finding on Mass. fluoridated towns with greater hip fractures. Many residents have sought to remove fluoride from municipal water supplies after examining the research. In Wilmington, the Director of Public Health in 2000 recommended ending fluoridation after researching the subject. … Read more
The following written testimony was provided, additional to spoken testimony, in 2021. Massachusetts needs to insure modern electricity and communications are safe. RECORD SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL HARM Substantial evidence exists in the research record that radiofrequency emissions from electricity and wireless communications cause biological changes such as increased oxidation (ROS) leading to downstream effects including calcium … Read more
The following was provided to MA legislators in a 2021 hearing, yet the bill was killed. Through grade 12, our state standards require public school students utilize technology in nearly every subject in addition to media and computer science digital requirements. Massachusetts has a Pre-K educational writing standard requiring pre-kindergarteners use digital tools to convey … Read more