Apple’s New ‘Wireless’ Headphones Emit Radiation … Right Next to Your Brain

The AirPods will fire dangerous, cancer-causing radiation directly into the brains of their users, experts are warning.

The iPhone communicates with the right earbud via Bluetooth, which will then send a separate Bluetooth signal to the left earbud. In effect, this means the radiation carrying the signal will pass directly through the user’s brain.

Apple states that all of their Bluetooth enabled devices emit radiofrequency radiation (RFR) that fits within the guidelines set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). But according to Joel Moskowitz of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, over 200 scientists who have studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on the body have gone on record criticizing the FCC guidelines as being far too lenient.

According to Joel Moskowitz:

We are playing with fire here. You are putting a microwave-emitting device next to your brain. This has been observed over several decades. It’s like we keep rediscovering that Bluetooth is harmful and trying to forget it because we don’t know how to handle it from a policy standpoint.

Scientists and researchers have traditionally have claimed that RFR does not carry enough electromagnetic energy and radiation to cause cellular or DNA damage in contrast to the more high-energy ionizing radiation like X-rays, that has been proven to cause cancer.

“This has been observed over several decades,” Moskowitz said. “It’s like we keep rediscovering that Bluetooth is harmful and trying to forget it because we don’t know how to handle it from a policy standpoint.”

Despite contradicting claims by industry representatives, studies are showing direct ways that RFR leads directly to health harm.

One such study shows that RFR can degrade the blood-brain barrier, allowing more toxins to enter the brain. This is a major concern with placing RFR transmitters directly next to the brain.

Moskowitz said.

Although we don’t know the long-term risks from using Bluetooth devices, why would anyone insert microwave-emitting devices in their ears near their brain when there are safer ways to use a cell phone? Essentially I recommend using corded headsets or hands-free use of cell phones, not wireless ear buds.

Indeed, all studies that have shown health concerns with cell phone radiation apply equally to Bluetooth, and therefore to Apple’s AirPods. Future iPhone 7 purchasers should be concerned about the 2010 industry-funded Interphone study findings. The study found dramatic increases in the risk of acoustic nerve tumors, brain tumors and parotid gland tumors in people who had used cell phones for 10 or more years.

Earlier in 2016, scientists from across the United States gathered at a pediatric conference in Baltimore to declare that there is no longer a debate about the cell phone-brain cancer link.

“The weight of the evidence is clear: cell phones do cause brain cancer,” said Dr. Devras Davis, president of the Environmental Health Trust.