Jul 12, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min · 13 segments
Peter Anthony Cowan's work in environmental health spans research, journalism, technology, and clinical practice. As an independent researcher, he covers the biological effects of modern…
Ryan Mitchell BrownHostChrisHostYeah, yeah.
So why don't we just jump right into it? So EMFs, we know that they're a very popular thing in the health space.
And we also know that if you're probably watching this podcast, you're probably pretty deep into the health niches.
So I want to start it off with some history, actually.
There's a 2021 federal court ruling where the D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals actually told the FCC that their safety guidelines for radio frequency radiation which, by the way, haven't been updated since 1996, are inadequate.
Most people have never heard of this case.
Peter, what happened here? And why does that matter so much?
Are you aware of how they determined those regulations? Because that's a great story.
So they basically, 1996 Telecommunications Act, that's when they opened up all the spectrum.
The study that they used to determine what the threshold was for safety with all the stuff was they had some monkeys in a room and they were feeding them bananas.
And they turned up the power on the radio signal until the monkeys no longer wanted a banana.
So basically just turning it up until the monkeys got so sluggish that there was like, I
That's the thing that we used to determine that we were going to blanket our society with massive radio antennas.
Yeah, yeah.
So why don't we just jump right into it? So EMFs, we know that they're a very popular thing in the health space.
And we also know that if you're probably watching this podcast, you're probably pretty deep into the health niches.
So I want to start it off with some history, actually.
There's a 2021 federal court ruling where the D.C.
Circuit Court of Appeals actually told the FCC that their safety guidelines for radio frequency radiation which, by the way, haven't been updated since 1996, are inadequate.
Most people have never heard of this case.
Peter, what happened here? And why does that matter so much?
Are you aware of how they determined those regulations? Because that's a great story.
So they basically, 1996 Telecommunications Act, that's when they opened up all the spectrum.
The study that they used to determine what the threshold was for safety with all the stuff was they had some monkeys in a room and they were feeding them bananas.
And they turned up the power on the radio signal until the monkeys no longer wanted a banana.
So basically just turning it up until the monkeys got so sluggish that there was like, I
That's the thing that we used to determine that we were going to blanket our society with massive radio antennas.
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