Rollout of 5G and the risk of harm | Letters

There is a lot of science demonstrating plausible risk of harm from electromagnetic fields, says Damien Downing, and campaigners against 5G are simply alerting people to the evidence, says Sally Beare

Has the Guardian never heard of the precautionary principle (How baseless fears over 5G rollout created a health scare, 26 July)? The one the Stewart report (from the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones) called for in 2000, but which has been ignored ever since? The one that says government has a responsibility to protect the public from exposure to harm, when scientific investigation has found a plausible risk?

Whatever labels - "baseless", "half-science", "cherry-picked" - you put on it, there is quite a lot of science demonstrating plausible risk of harm from electromagnetic fields, far too much to dismiss with a chuckle from the hardly impartial head of technology communications for EE, Howard Jones.

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