Arthur Firstenberg

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Arthur Firstenberg (born c. 1951) is an American author and activist in the field of electromagnetic hypersensitivity. He is the author of Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution (1997) and founder of the Cellular Phone Taskforce.[1]

Arthur received a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1971 and continued into medical school between 1978 and 1982. He claims that he was unable to continue his schooling due to electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which he attributes to diagnostic dental x-rays.[1]

Since the onset of his illness, he has argued in numerous publications that there exists a massive and world-wide conspiracy, in which "the telecommunications industry has suppressed damaging evidence about its technology since at least 1927."[2] The World Health Organization maintains, "no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects."[3]

As of June 2004, he was homeless. He had not held a job since 1990 and was living off Social Security as he could not find a workplace without computers.[4] In May 2008, he and other groups accused the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico of discrimination against those allergic to EM radiation for having wireless networks in city buildings.[5]

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  1. ^ a b Firstenberg, Arthur & Molloy, Susan (July 1, 2002), “Electrical Sensitivity”, Latitudes 5 (4), <http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2002/Electrical-Sensitivity-Firstenberg1jul02.htm> 
  2. ^ Firstenberg, Arthur (Summer, 1997), “Microwaving Our Planet, Cellular Assault”, Earth Island Journal 12 (3), <http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=202&journalID=47> 
  3. ^ World Health Organization Factsheet (May 2006), Electromagnetic fields and public health, <http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs304/en/index.html>. Retrieved on 3 May 2007 
  4. ^ Firstenberg, Arthur (2004-06-01), “Electromagnetic Fields (EMF): Killing Fields”, The Ecologist 34 (5), <http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2004/Electromagnetic-Fields-EMF1jun04.htm> 
  5. ^ Schwartz, Gadi & Panas, Joshua (2008-05-20), Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings, <http://kob.com/article/stories/S451152.shtml?cat=517>. Retrieved on 24 May 2008 
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