VorschauNewsletter (27 February 2004)
STRONG EVIDENCE OF FALSE “CANCER INVESTIGATION” IN THE MOBILE TELEPHONY
* ARE THE "EMF” A PROBABLE HUMAN CARCINOGEN?
SUMMARY:
INVESTIGATION OF LÖSCHER: Beginning in 1993, Löscher and Meike Mevissen at the Hannover Medical School in Germany published a series of studies in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals showing that EMFs can promote breast cancer in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats after being initiated with the known carcinogen DMBA.
FALSE INVESTIGATION: Gary Boorman of the U.S. NIEHS, who at the time was in the midst of running the EMF RAPID research program, asked Larry Anderson at the Battelle labs in Richland, WA, to give it a try. But they botched the job.
* With only one reliable experiment —one that did not agree with the much larger body of work carried out by Löscher— Boorman decided that Anderson was right and Löscher was wrong.
* Löscher may have been beaten up but he was not giving up.
GENETIC CONFUSION. Löscher has shown that two substrains of SD rats (one in Germany and one in the U.S.), while apparently very similar, responded very differently to both the DMBA alone and to the combined DMBA–EMF exposures.
NIEHS CONFUSION. — if NIEHS had had any interest in doing such study.
* Portier wrote that the Battelle studies provide “strong evidence” that EMFs do not promote breast cancer.
2. NON-EFFECTUAL COURSE: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE ANY ACTION OF ”EMF”.
STRONG EVIDENCE OF FALSE STUDIES WITH RATS THAT ALREADY HAVE “96% CANCER”.
* Without any EMF exposure, 92-96% of Anderson’s SD rats developed tumors.
Dr. George Carlo. (October 1999). "I am especially concerned about what appear to be actions by a segment of the industry to conscript the FCC, the FDA and The World Health Organization with them in following a non-effectual course that will likely result in a regulatory and consumer backlash."
3. DIRTY TRICKS CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT
* But Boorman was not satisfied with simply championing Anderson. He began a dirty tricks campaign to discredit Löscher. Other EMF skeptics joined in the attacks.
Dr. Neil Cherry. (May 2000). "My problem is that there is so much research that shows adverse biological and health effects, but there is a conserted campaign to ignore, discredit or attack the messengers. The studies are not generally known by authorities who trust bodies that appear to be reliable but who deliberately mis-quote and mis-represent the published research. This continues to delay measures to protect public health by retaining the strongly misproven assumption of tissue heating being the only effect."
TWO RAPID CONCLUSIONS:
CENSURE IN INVESTIGATION: But that possibility was never examined the way Löscher has done for EMFs and breast cancer.
ARE “EMF” GENETIC KILLER?
Is due to modify the classification of the EMF as probable human carcinogen?
Dr. Neil Cherry (May 2000). "Electromagnetic Radiation is damaging to Brains, Hearts, Embryos, Hormones and Cells. It is therefore a threat to Intelligent Hearty Life. Electromagnetic radiation resonantly interacts with bodies and cells, Interfering with cell-to-cell communication, cell growth and regulation, and is damaging the genetic basis of life."
(NIEHS) “NEW-SPEAKING”?:
REMEMBER … “RAPID RESEARCH PROGRAMS”
Wolfgang Löscher has suffered numerous personal attacks for his work on EMFs and breast cancer.
Omega: see http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_emf-omega-news_11-02-04.html
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Phone mast plan sparks protest
Protesters fighting plans for a mobile phone mast have been demonstrating on the streets of Rochester in Kent.
The residents are furious at the "underhand" way in which the plans for the mast at the junction of City Way and Onslow Road were revealed. They claim few people were warned about the application and that they have been given an impossible deadline in which to object to the proposal. They are also worried about possible health risks from the 15m mast.
Residential area
About 30 people waving placards and posters spelled out their anger at the T-Mobile proposal. They have until Friday to object and are furious at the lack of consultation and say only a handful of residents were notified of the company's intentions.
Ward councillor for Medway, Teresa Murray, said early indications were that the proposal would not go ahead. But she said she would be seeking a change in council policy so that there would be no masts on public property or public highways in Medway.
A statement from T-Mobile said it understood such proposals could cause concern, and that it had tried to address the issues "in an open and honest manner". But it said prior to submitting the application its agents wrote to the local planning authority, ward councillors and nearby schools, and received just five letters in response. The statement continued: "With regard to health and safety T-Mobile is confident that its base stations... do not present a health risk to any member of the public."
A decision is due to be made on 17 March.
Information from Dr Miguel Muntané
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U.K. live art demo of fluorescent tubes being lit by pylon
It is an art show, created by Richard Box, an artist-in-residence at Bristol University's physics department. More information on this and thematically related shows is available on the artist's website at http://www.zen32868.zen.co.uk/r/press.htm or just google: Richard Box-Press. For good visuals of how pylons, overhead cables, computers, etc energize/impact nearby objects and persons press "archives" on his home page.
I have transcribed James Mills' DAILY MAIL article below:
"The amazing Bristol light show . . . WHAT DOES THIS PICTURE REVEAL ABOUT THE SAFETY OF POWER LINES?
'It is a graphic illustration,' said Professor Dennis Henshaw, of Bristol University. 'The bulbs are literally drawing the electricity that is emitted from the power cables out of the air around them. The distance that they go on for shows exactly how far the power can stretch.'
Professor Henshaw believes there is a link between electromagnetic fields and lung cancer and has been studying the health effects on people living near pylons for eight years.
He explained that electromagnetism splits molescules in the air to form charged particles called ions. This process causes the buzzing noise emitted from pylons. 'The ions are charged and attach themselves to air particles which we breathe in,' he said. 'These particles may be polluted air and because they are charged they have a higher chance of attaching themselves to the lung. Polluted air molescules can contain known cancer-causing agents.'
He estimates there are between 200 and 400 extra cases of lung cancer in people living either directly below or close to pylons and cables in the UK. He said research also suggests that people living near pylons are more susceptible to leukaemia, miscarriages and depression. 'It is a scandal that we allow people to live in such proximity,' he said. 'We are lagging behind other countries in what we are doing about this. 'Our evidence points to a risk to people who have a history of being exposed to the magnetic force for a very long time.'
The light show was created by Richard Box, 34-year-old artist in residence at Bristol University's physics department. He explained that there is an interactive element to his display. As you move closer to a bulb the light will change strength because the human body is a better conductor than a glass tube.
'And there's sound as well as light,' he said, 'A crackling that corresponds to the flashing of the lights. 'There's a certain smell too, and your hair stands slightly on end.'
Informant: Imelda O'Connor
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Cellphone tycoon is cautious about the industry's future
International Herald Tribune
By Nicola Clark (IHT)
Monday, February 23, 2004
For a man who built his fortune atop Europe's mobile phone boom of the 1990s, John Caudwell is surprisingly cautious about the future of the industry. "Although trade has been reasonably buoyant in the last year, I do not have an enormous amount of optimism about the market going forward," said Caudwell, chairman of the closely held Caudwell Group,
Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner in London, said that the increasing pressure on phone makers to compete on price would squeeze profit margins throughout the distribution chain. "It is a race of who is going to offer the latest phone at the lowest price," she said.
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=130703&owner=(IHT)&date=20040223145602
Informant: Marianne Kirst
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Southeast England fights to save sparrows
The ordinary house sparrow is disappearing from gardens and parks throughout Britain, and government officials met Friday to discuss ways of curbing the bird's decline.
The number of house sparrows has dropped from 12 million pairs to fewer than 7 million pairs over the last 30 years, according to researchers.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-24/s_13399.asp
Omega: see also:
Mobile phones blamed for sparrow deaths
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,873195,00.html
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U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/02/23/ap/HiTech/d80sg5hg0.txt
From Information Clearing House
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The End of Civilization
The weather turned upside-down?
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/events/discussion_meetings/reps/acc.htm
Informant: Harlan Girard
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Dramatic climate change could become global security nightmare
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8023054.htm
Information from NHNE
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The Pentagon Sounds The Alarm On Global Warming:
Why Isn't President Bush Listening?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-13.htm
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Great Barrier Reef faces major coral destruction
Australia's Great Barrier Reef will lose most of its coral cover by 2050 and, at worst, the world's largest coral system could collapse by 2100 because of global warming, a study released on Saturday said.
The study by Queensland University's Centre for Marine Studies, commissioned by the Worldwide Fund for Nature, said that the destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef was inevitable due to global warming, regardless of what actions were taken now.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-24/s_13397.asp
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PREVENT DESTRUCTIVE FISHING IN THE GALAPAGOS
ACTION DEADLINE: immediately
http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/ctt.asp?u=83527&l=19340
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Five power companies commit to clean energy and limits on CO2
Five electric power companies from across the U.S. have answered a challenge from World Wildlife Fund to become the first U.S. power companies to support a mandatory cap on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions and confirm their commitment to clean energy.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-24/s_13263.asp
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Crops 'Widely Contaminated' By Genetically Modified DNA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nhnenews/message/6811
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GM crops can be worse for environment
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/gm.jsp?id=ns99994283
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/gm.jsp?id=ns99994268
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/gm.jsp?id=ns99994191
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/gm.jsp?id=ns99994147
Informant: George Paxinos
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Scientist says 'Asian brown cloud' threatens Gulf
A body of pollution which has been identified in the skies across Asia is now threatening to engulf the Middle East and make the planet a drier place, a leading environmental scientist said on Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-02-25/s_13447.asp
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OIL SHORTAGES LOOK CERTAIN BY 2007 LNG TO THE RESCUE?
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/022304_lng_shortages_summary.html
www.buergerwelle.de , 26. February 2004