The Value of Barrie Trower
If you’ve ever spent an evening in a pub with a man who insists the government is listening to everything we say, then you have a passing acquaintance with the genre of Barrie Trower. He is a former Royal Navy microwave weapons expert, a latter-day Cassandra for the tinfoil-hat brigade, and an old-school English eccentric with a conspiratorial glint in his eye.
To dismiss him outright would be the easy thing to do, the safe thing, the “Of course, I’m not one of those people” thing. And yet, we must pause.
Trower has that disconcerting quality of the truly informed: he speaks in the soft, unhurried tones of a man who knows more than you. His world is not just one of veiled government cover-ups but an unrelenting campaign against what he sees as the most insidious and unregulated danger of modern life – microwave radiation.
You may think, “Yes, but what has this got to do with me?” You, of course, being a modern, cosmopolitan sort who walks around every day like a human antenna, bathed in a cloud of WiFi, Bluetooth, and 5G signals. You may scoff at the idea that your phone, your router, or – God forbid – your smart fridge is cooking you slowly like an irradiated chicken.
And yet, that’s exactly what Trower confirms is happening.
For those who haven’t stumbled into his corner of the internet, Trower has spent much of his life studying microwave radiation and its effects on the human body. More alarmingly, he alleges that governments and military agencies have known about its dangers for decades and have, naturally, done nothing about it.
After all, why regulate something that is so conveniently invisible, so commercially indispensable, and so delightfully profitable?
The problem, he argues, is that the science is already settled – it’s just that no one is listening. The effects of long-term exposure to microwaves range from the mildly inconvenient (headaches, fatigue, insomnia) to the appallingly dystopian (infertility, neurological damage, and yes, cancer).
Schools, in particular, are a battleground for Trower, who insists that young children, with their soft, undeveloped skulls, are uniquely vulnerable to the ceaseless, humming radiation of WiFi networks. After all, if rats stop learning when exposed to EMF radiation, what chance do our kids have in schools?
And yet, rather than banning these hidden hazards, many schools now insist on equipping five-year-olds with tablets, effectively turning every classroom into a low-level weapons testing site.
And so, we return to the central question: what is the value of Barrie Trower? Is he a prophet? A necessary irritant in a world that would prefer not to think too hard about what it’s doing to itself? The answer, infuriatingly, depends on your appetite for discomfort.
The great advantage of ignoring him is that life is much more convenient when you believe your phone is just a phone, rather than a glowing brick of slow-motion biological sabotage. And yet, the thing about conspiracy theorists – real conspiracy theorists, not the ones with lizard-based cosmologies – is that they are occasionally, inconveniently, absolutely correct.
If you’re secretly Superman in disguise, your phone is a lump of kryptonite rattling around in your pocket, leaching away your strength, turning your godlike powers into a slouching, screen-staring, mortal frailty.
The very fact that Trower has been dismissed and discredited so widely is evidence of his importance. After all, this is often the profile of a man who is both right and ignored.
And that is where Trower’s true value lies. It’s easy to dismiss him but not easy to disbelieve what he says as he forces the question and drags the conversation, kicking and screaming, from the fringes of paranoia to the uncomfortable centre of public health.
And in a world where technology marches forward unchallenged, where profit and convenience dictate the limits of acceptable science, perhaps we need a few more madmen to remind us that the emperor’s new clothes are, in fact, carcinogenic.
Listen, really listen, with an open mind.
Not the kind of listening where you’re scrolling through social media at the same time. No. Proper listening – the sort where you let the words in, let them settle, let them rearrange the furniture of your preconceptions.
And make sure you breathe, because much of what he says will take your breath away!
YouTube videos with Barrie Trower….
• brain cancer (3:20)
• 5G – There Is No Safe Place, No Where To Go (14:31)
• and if you or your daughter are pregnant…..(14:20)
TIP: ALWAYS switch your WiFI router off at night.
Your phone loves you, but don’t let it sleep next to you.
Graeme Dinnen
ResourcesForLife.net
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