Michelle Rodriguez Is Worried Her Prius Will Give Her Cancer
Filed under: cars-houses, transport, video — Michael d'Estries @ 2:43 pm
May 28th 2008
It’s pretty rare to see celebrities actually do little more with paparazzi than say “Hello” and get on with their day. That’s where this video appears to be headed — until Michelle Rodriguez decides to elaborate on the question of “How do you like your hybrid?” Then, the video become legendary. Here is her response:
“I think my car is alright. But you know one thing? I’m researching right now…the battery, bro. The f**king battery now seems to have an issue: causing cancer, brother. It’s some serious s**t. Like, imagine your cell phone, a hundred times fold…that type of s**t going right up your ass. Ok, baby? Ok? So, that’s what I’m researching right now…”
Michelle then goes on to say that nothing is really established in terms of any health-concerns on the topic. While it’s true that hybrid batteries do emit some EMF, studies have found that its certainly nothing different from other sources of EMF (say, your CRT monitor) that we experience on a day-to-day basis.
But Michelle is quick to add: ”Before you go and buy your mother-f**king hybrid, check yo s**t.”
Uh huh.
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This is so NOT a news story. I still love you guys, though.
hahaha. she’s awesome. funny story.
darn am I glad *I* clicked and read it . I drive and own a hybrid and do feel sick after driving a lot (like today) thanks guys… i went and read the NY times piece she might have seen here http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/automobiles/27EMF.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=automobiles
and am thinking of selling it and going to a solar only car..
thanks for the info.
E
Yeah, whaddaya think that battery is going to do to the planet when it has to be replaced after ten years??? Why didn’t they make the battery last the life of the car like Honda??
The Prius is SO bogus.
Well I’m glad to see she’s checking her s**t, but I hope other people are doing the same. Considering we all use cell phones, I’d say I’m a lot less concerned about that than I am about gas at $5 a gallon polluting the air. So weigh your pros and cons. You can hate on the Prius if you want, but the fact remains its one of the best options out there these days. Unless you plan on getting on the Interstate on a Segway.
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I’ve come to the grim slight exaggeration that almost everything these days gives you cancer.
The battery and the motor are “shielded” by the same absorbing materials used on the skin of the Stealth bomber, therefor hybrids produce very little in terms of either electric or magnetic fields, no more so than your average automobile, which already uses dozens of electric motors on board for windows, seats, etc.
Electric fields are harmless, as demonstrated by Nikola Tesla and countless carnival performers after him, standing inside high-voltage electric fields, sparks shooting from their fingers! Direct current goes right through your body, has little or no effect, except make your hair stand on end.
Magnetic fields on the other hand can indeed be quite toxic, just like allergies, some people being more susceptible to it than others. Couple of years ago, a BMW model was recalled because interfering magnetic fields generated by simple electric window motors was creating a harmonic making some passengers sick. Magnetic fields around wires, if not properly installed to minimize interference, can cause health problems.
Studies on how the use of electro-magnetic fields can affect living organisms are classified as “non-lethal weapons” technology by our military, making it very difficult, if not impossible, to do wide scale electro-magnetic medical research.
Not enough has been done by the EV/HEV industry in dealing with the potential toxicity of certain EM fields generated by motors and batteries. I was a consultant on Jim Motavalli’s NYTimes article. As editor-at-large and webmaster of Electrifying Times magazine, I have urged the EV industry to pay more attention to this issue.
I doesn’t need to be a problem, but there could be one if the growing EV industry isn’t forthcoming with the necessary data, both in the shielding technology used, so improvement can be made, and providing resources to fund credible independent studies.
RemyC.
ET webed
On October 20, 2008, I was pre-diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a rare blood disease that depletes bone mass, and admitted into the hospital where a bone marrow sample confirmed the diagnosis. This was somewhat of a surprise to the physicians and to me at only 42 years of age, and as I’ve maintained and advocated a healthy lifestyle. These last few years, in particular, I have been increasingly outspoken about the real dangers of EMFs from all the obvious sources: power lines, appliances, cell phones, transmission towers . . . but it took me 100,000 miles of driving my 2002 Toyota Prius until I began to both consciously suspect a very eerie correlation between the Prius and the absolute exhaustion I would experience after turning the key. But it took another 45,000 miles until the pain in my back and ribcage was so intense that I couldn’t walk or sleep that I finally went to an orthopaedic physician who showed me a picture of my clearly degenerated spine before admitting me to the hospital that day.
No sooner was I affirmingly diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, two days after arriving in the hospital, I was filled with a knowing of absolute certainty that my condition was catalyzed by the EMFs from my car, and was just livid, thinking about my 7 and 8 year-old daughters who have been riding in the car for many of those miles. You see, I am not the ordinary driver. Over the last year alone I made three driving loops around the North American continent, trips from Lancaster, PA to Dallas, Los Angeles, British Columbia, Toronto, Vermont . . . even sleeping nights in the car on so that climate control would keep the car warm. Last July, my daughters accompanied me on a 6-week camping trip that took us south to Virginia then west to Dallas, then north through the mid-west, Yellowstone, to eastern Washington, north British Columbia, and finally east toward Pennsylvania again.
It was when my youngest daughter, Ruby, then , obtained a directional compass and brought for a ride one day. Each time I asked her our heading, she replied “south Daddy” as we twisted along a country road. Indeed, after handing the compass to me, I could clearly observe that north always pointed toward the rear of the car. Finally stopping the car, I got out and observed the compass finally read normally after moving about a yard away from the car. It was this day that I was finally clued-in to one of the ambient magnetic effects involved with the Prius, and I began to suspect a correlation with the utter fatigue I had begun to feel driving it. Little did I know that I was sitting dead-center over a high voltage line whose massive DC current changed direction each time the cars computer indicated change of power flow to or from the batteries.
Lying in the hospital with my laptop computer (another good source of very active EMFs), certain about the connection with the car, I Googled on search terms: hybrid car cancer. That’s when I saw the NY Times article titled “Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk”. The doctors thought I was crazy, but I was clear with epiphany.
There was a long dark tunnel I had to go through. I had to crawl, sometimes minutes just to gain inches of ground. Physically I was wasted away by October 31st when I was finally released. Combined conscious healing intentions, a super food diet, sheer will to rise and walk, and of course abstention from driving my car has turned my condition around. The oncologist calls me his most amazingly recovering patient ever, though when I ask him if he would like to know how I am living, he only replies “No. Whatever you’re doing, just keep doing it.” While in the hospital I was given high dose of dexamethosone for two rounds of consecutive days. That stalled the activity of the myelitic bone marrow cells. A few weeks later, I was taking a pill called Revlimid, the successor to thalidomide. Despite two sickening rounds of zapping my immune system, my blood tests soared to normal composition. I am still two inches shorter than my normal height and have been progressively shedding my back pain. Thank goodness for my yoga practice. Thank goodness I have rebounded so miraculously. I have decided to not embark on the third month of Revlimid and dexamethosone. Diet, water, clean air, trees, sunlight, and positivity will continue to restore my vitality and hopefully, gradually restore the lost bone mass in my vertebrae . . . and I’ll keep a close eye on blood test results.
It turns-out that there is an overwhelming amount of information on the Internet, including journal articles written be scientists and physicians about the real dangers of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation. There are many articles alluding to the dangers of EMFs from hybrid cars, and many accompanying BLOGs where flame wars erupt from those naysayers.
One of my favorite quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer:
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
I’ve considered writing an article on hybrid cars and EMF dangers, but there is already so much out there; like your website for instance. But that isn’t quite enough. Though world consciousness is rapidly awakening, the public is largely in transitioning from the ridicule stage to the violent opposition stage with regard to the truths about the gargantuan and rapidly growing cocktail of “invisible” or “slow acting” effects from EMFs and chemicals in our food, air, water and personal hygiene products. Heck, for a while, I thought driving a hybrid car was doing my part as a concerned planetary steward. I’ve called the Toyota Customer Experience number to have them document my story and concerns. The agent there repeatedly minimized my position and claimed he’s worked there for years and never heard anything about EMF dangers, let alone someone contracting a leukemia from a car.
It’s really not enough to write the articles. As much as I despise the legal system and lawyers, it occurs to me that the only way industries will really begin changing is if they are held accountable. Any ideas?