{"id":476,"date":"2007-09-09T21:48:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/implanted-identification-microchips-that-cause-cancer-say-it-aint-so\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:17:03","slug":"implanted-identification-microchips-that-cause-cancer-say-it-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/implanted-identification-microchips-that-cause-cancer-say-it-aint-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Implanted Identification Microchips that Cause Cancer? Say it ain&#8217;t so!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VeriChip, maker of implantable RFID-powered identification microchips, are being accused of withholding information from the public with regards to the dark side of their &#8220;lifesaving&#8221; chips. <img class=\"colorbox-476\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"120\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ImageCache\/msnbcmedia1.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Photos\/2007\/Sept\/070906\/070907_microchip_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\"\/>Don&#8217;t say you&nbsp;haven&#8217;t been&nbsp;warned: the signs have been there for a decade, available for all to see. No, you needn&#8217;t be a doctor, radiologist, or nano-technician to have seen them and heeded their warning, you just had to watch a couple of episodes of one of the 90s most popular hit TV shows ever: The X-Files. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently Chris Carter&#8217;s insanely-popular X-Files (and its cult following) had more than just the plot lines down right, it seems that The Truth really <em>is<\/em> out there after all! A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/20643620\/\" rel=\"follow\">startling article<\/a> on on MSNBC today reveals that implanted &#8220;medical&#8221; microchips used for the purpose of the identification of cats, dogs, horses, and the elderly really can cause cancer after all, just like their TV counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a class=\"no_icon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dana_Scully\" atomicselection=\"true\" rel=\"follow\"><img class=\"colorbox-476\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ImageCache\/msnbcmedia1.msn.com\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/7\/70\/Redux_II_5x03.jpg\/180px-Redux_II_5x03.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>For those of you not yet enlightened by Chris Carter&#8217;s science-ficitional work of art, here&#8217;s the gist of what happened (which is, by no means whatsoever, to be considered a substitute to actually <em>watching<\/em> the X-Files!). In the X-Files TV series, FBI Special Agent Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) was kidnapped by &#8220;aliens&#8221; who had a unique identification microchip implanted in the base of her neck. Seasons later, Agent Scully discovers the microchip and has it removed, triggering a malignant nasopharengeal tumor to develop (in her nasal cavity). Later on in the storyline, Agent Scully&#8217;s cancer is healed by finding a replacement microchip (and we later discover that the microchip can cure cancer and most other bodily illnesses).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story: the truth is out there &#8211; you just need to know where to look. On this particular occasion, the topic of interest is a tiny microchip (implanted at the base of the neck!!) used to store medical &amp; identification information on pets and humans. It&#8217;s about the size of a single grain of rice (see picture at top), and can be scanned by moving an electronic (RFID)&nbsp;scanner across the skin, where the wireless signal can be read.<\/p>\n<p>A good idea at its core, it was approved by the FDA for use on human beings in 2005 (previously being limited to pets and other animals), and heralded as a great accomplishment and time\/life-saver for those who really need it.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the manufacturer didn&#8217;t let on a supposedly unimportant fact: it caused cancer in the rats it was originally tested on &#8211; something discovered long before in the mid-1990s, in separate studies conducted by toxicologists and veterinarians. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s widely known that many X-Files episodes, like Law &amp; Order and other TV Show series, have some elements loosely based on real-world rumors &amp; behaviors, with a good dash of imagination added to the mix. But it seems that even the &#8220;out there&#8221; plot lines for the X-Files mytharc episodes couldn&#8217;t keep up with real life, with over 2,000 chips already implanted in humans and millions [sic] of domesticated pets and animals across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VeriChip, maker of implantable RFID-powered identification microchips, are being accused of withholding information from the public with regards to the dark side of their &#8220;lifesaving&#8221; chips. Don&#8217;t say you&nbsp;haven&#8217;t been&nbsp;warned: the signs have been there for a decade, available for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/implanted-identification-microchips-that-cause-cancer-say-it-aint-so\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[526,522,524,528,527,221,530,487,529,525,523],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-cancer","tag-corruption","tag-dana-scully","tag-drugs","tag-fda","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-politics","tag-scandal","tag-verichip","tag-x-files"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-7G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}