Cross Currents
by Robert O. Becker
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Author: Robert O. BeckerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1990-12-01
ISBN: 0874776090
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Tarcher
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Book Review: The unseen dangers around us
Summary: 5 Stars
The NASA, supposed to hire the "crème de la crème" of the scientific intelligentsia, aren't getting any further than declaring that "life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution". For a start, Johnjoe McFadden shows in his book "Quantum evolution" that the Darwinian evolution, guided by chance and chance only, can't be demonstrated by simulations nor experiments.
On the other hand, insisting that life is a "chemical system" is completely besides the point. Dr. Robert Becker, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, nominated twice for the Nobel Prize, discovered that curing injuries and broken bones is a process guided by electrical currents. Following those early discoveries, he went further on to find out how our bodies are able to detect that's something wrong in the first place. He found that our autonomous nervous system relies on pain impulses to trigger the curing process, and that those pain impulses run through acupuncture meridians discovered in China thousands of years ago. Dr. Becker says : "Input DC electrical signals carried the information that injury had occurred along the acupuncture meridians to the brain, where part of this group of signals reached consciousness and were perceived as pain. The remainder went to more primitive portions of the brain, where they stimulated output DC signals that caused the cells and chemical mechanisms at the site of injury to produce repair. This is a complete closed-loop, negative feedback control system..."
Dr. Becker didn't rest his case here. He continued his search for the scientific truth and considered that if our bodies produce electromagnetic fields, those will probably suffer when exposed to external electromagnetic fields. Now, the natural geomagnetic field of our planet oscillates at about 10 Hz. In the 20th century, humanity built enormous power distribution networks around the earth, and choose arbitrarily oscillations of either 50 or 60 Hz, 5 to 6 times above the natural geomagnetic field. This means, in the words of Dr. Robert Becker, that: "the entire population of the world is willy-nilly the subject of a gigantic experiment. Daily exposure of nearly everyone is a fait accompli". He calls this "electro pollution".
This isn't without consequences. Tests on animals show that electro pollution produces stress. People living close to high voltage power lines have also more chance of suffering depression. And to make things worse, human cancer cells exposed to 60 hertz electromagnetic fields for just twenty-four hours, result in a six fold increase in their growth rate. This has been confirmed in real-life situations. Dr. Marjorie Speers of the University of Texas showed that workers in electrical plants where EM fields are very strong have 13 x more chance of brain tumors than a control group. Dr. Becker says : "We are constantly exposed to cancer causing agents in our environment, ranging from carcinogenic chemicals to cosmic rays. As a result, we are always developing small cancers that are recognized by our immune systems and destroyed. Any factor that increases the growth rate of these small cancers gives them an advantage over the immune system, and as a result more people develop clinical cancers that require treatment."
Electricity producers and cell phone operators aren't very interested in this kind of scientific investigation. In this era we are living in, where science has been privatized, those studies are being blocked. However, Dr. Becker has always put the scientific truth and the interest of the general public above his personal career or salary, and therefore helped testify in several committees against new power lines and new antennas. That's how he finally got fired. Dr. Becker is a great scientist and a brave man, a rare combination in the dark ages we live in.
Summary of Cross Currents
Dr. Becker tells of the emergence of electromagnetic medicine, which promises to unlock the secrets of healing, and the growth of electromagnetic pollution, which poses a clear environmental danger. He explains the effectiveness of alternative healing methods that use parts of the body's innate electrical healing systems, and warns that our bodies are being adversely affected by power lines, computers, microwaves and satellite dishes.General Books
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