Here’s the best answer we’ve got to: “Is EMF (electromagnetic frequency radiation from cell phones and wifi, etc.) really harmful to health and how does it do it?

Summarized here is a “to the point” argument by experts Richard Lear and Camilla Rees in their deeply informed “Scientific View” paper (click it) for how EMF radiation harms living bodies of humans and animals. The paper has great illustrations and diagrams as well as more detail giving detail of the referred facts in the summary below, yet the whole paper is reasonably short, readable and only 17 pages with a lot of good layout and white space. It’s good reading to shore up your own clarity and also to hand the link to skeptical friends and family.

Thumbnail of the paper:

First read a couple of powerful summary quotes given, followed with some summarizing text which is fully expanded in the paper.  

“Of the 36 chronic diseases and conditions that more than
doubled (1990-2015), the U.S. Navy study warned us of the
connection between wireless radiation and twenty-three of
those chronic diseases, predicting what has indeed happened
to the health of Americans.”

“By ignoring the earlier science, U.S. regulators failed to
protect the American people from the dangers of wireless
technologies. In doing so, they imposed millions of
unnecessary chronic exposure conditions on the American
public. By 2015, the 23 diseases the U.S. Navy predicted may
have added more than $2 trillion in annual health care costs
to the U.S. economy due to their negligence.”

“Chain of Causation:
“Taken together, the research findings from NIH, the U.S. Navy, the BioInitiative Report, and thousands of concerned scientists outline the following chain of causation: Wireless signals trigger oxidative/nitrative stress in humans. In particular, calcium ion
messengers initiate the production of superoxide, peroxynitrite, and other free radicals. These agents not only disrupt biological homeostasis, but evidence points to them creating a lethal system of 7 synergistic biofactors that can both initiate and accelerate disease. This system of dysfunction we’ll call “P-Factor.” Peroxynitrite sits at the epicenter. It includes systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, autonomic dysfunction, epithelial dysfunction and nitrative stress. P-factor is shared by all 36 of the fastest-growing diseases in the US. Is P-factor the smoking gun for the current U.S. chronic disease health crisis?”
                    An image in the paper depicts this chain of causation:
“Electrical energy from wireless technologies is conveyed in the form of microwave radiation. The electromagnetic frequencies activate calcium ion messengers, which in turn signal the human innate immune system. The perceived threat triggers free radical production like superoxide (O2-), hydroxy free radical (OH) and peroxynitrite (ONOO–).
These molecules then set in motion as many as 97 biological disruptions that are associated with, and appear to be critical factors in the etiology and persistence of all 36 fast-growing chronic diseases we’ve listed.”
(The paper makes all this tech detail much more accessible.)