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Last week I heard that Olle Johansson at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has been denied any further funding to continue with his EMF research. Unfortunately this is all too frequently happening to independent researchers who dare report on finding non-thermal bio-effects. The cell phone industry is trying to convince governments and organisations with the bull-shit line that there is no need to do this type of research anymore as non-thermal effects do not exist and funding is better spent elsewhere.

Olle has written several papers in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) and you can access thes papers on http://www.acnem.org

There is now an urgent need for people and organisations to write to the Karolinska Institute (details below) in support of reinstating further funding in order for Johansson to continue his important research.

Below is the content of a letter sent to Professor Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, air-mailed today by Daan Spijer, CEO of ACNEM. I urge others to do similar.

Don
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25th September 2006

Professor Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson,
Karolinska Institute
Rektorsambetet
171 77 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Dear Professor,

It is with sadness that I learned recently that funding for research by Dr. Ölle Johansson into EMFs has been stopped. I understand that this is due to a lack of funds.

Dr Johansson has written a number of seminal articles for this College‚s Journal (see http://www.acnem.org/journal). These articles have had an impact in Australia on both government and public approaches to the proliferation of EMFs and the seemingly inexorable increase in the breadth and depth of the electromagnetic soup we live in.

Sweden is regarded in Australia as being in the forefront of research into and regulation of environmental pollution. It would set knowledge and understanding in this area back, if eminent researchers such as Dr Johansson were not able to continue their important work.

I ask that all possible efforts be made to find the funding necessary for Dr Johansson to continue his work.

Sincerely and with thanks,

DAAN SPIJER LLB
CEO

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Daan Spijer LLB
CEO
ACNEM - Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine

Mail: PO Box 324, Black Rock, Vic 3193, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9589 6088
Fax: +61 3 9589 5158

Email: daan@acnem.org
Web: www.acnem.org