From Hans Karow: Correspondence from Michael Repacholi to Hans Karow FYI, I suggest your readers first read MicroWaveNews Dr. Louis Slesin’s July 5, 2005 Commentary in http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#whoottawa Following is a response from the World Health Organisation’s Dr. Michael Repacholi commenting on Dr. Slesin’s Commentary. Dr. Repacholi is head/coordinator, Radiation & Environmental Health Protection of the
Read more →WHY TO APPLY THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE AGAINST MOBILE PHONE BASE STATIONS. R. Santini, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) “” Bâtiment Louis Pasteur “” 69621 Villeurbanne (France). Several arguments can be advanced for applying immediately the precautionary principle to counter the biological effects of cellular phone base stations. 1. Microwave bio effects are known and
Read more →A research student, Hyoung Won at the Umea Institute of design, University of UmeÃ¥, has proven that it is always possible to come up with still more totally useless wireless gadgetry to sell to the natives. Now a cell phone for the unborn child! With concepts like this Hyoung is sure to be offered a
Read more →Following is a message of interest from Gerd Oberfeld MD: Dear Colleagues, For those who are interested in environmental epidemiology … a) new MW-dosimeter for GSM900/ GSM1800/DECT/UMTS/WLAN http://www.maschek.de/uk/frameset.php?p=produkte b) Study on the Feasibility of Epidemiological Studies on Health Effects of Mobile Telephone Base Stations – Final Report http://www.mobile-research.ethz.ch/var/pub_neubauer_pref14.pdf Please distribute this information to people you
Read more →Whatever happened to all those expert warnings over children and mobile phone use? Who does the industry and Disney listen too? None other than Motorola and their spin doctors Swicord, Elder and Joyner who all have had a go at twisting science to the tune of their corporate masters. Recommended reading: “A Corporate Risk Assessment
Read more →Iris Atzmon in Israel makes an interesting proposal below that should be taken seriously. As an example of the sort of action that could be taken for instance, the Union of Concerned Scientists has been circulating a petition for scientists to sign that calls for restoring scientific integrity in policymaking in the US as a
Read more →From Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News If you are wondering what Mike Repacholi has been up to at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) EMF project since he and Leeka Kheifets did a flip-flop on the precautionary princuple back in 2003, check out the agenda and the discussion document for the meeting which Mike is
Read more →The issue of siting transmission lines and outmoded standards is continuing to widen in New Zealand as the following two articles indicate. I’m expecting a similar response in Australia when the Aust. Radiation Protection & Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) soon issues a draft proposal that maintains the existing paradigm of 1000 mG/5000 mG as per
Read more →Don, You may be interested in some maps I’ve come across which plot the location of wireless computer base stations in two US cities. A company called Skyhook Wireless has made these maps because they are using the base stations as an alternative to GPS positioning. They give an indication of how widespread and inescapable
Read more →Over the last week there have been apparent list members un-subscribing from this list. In two cases that I have inquired about, the “un-subscribed” people had received a message that gave the impression that I have removed them from the list, which was not the case. The message I got, in turn, was that they
Read more →Some time ago a local Trade Union rep. expressed concern to me that his daughter’s school was going for wireless laptops. Since then, many of our local private schools in Hobart have gone the wireless way, as a result of hard sales pitches by wireless companies – “after all you must stay on top of
Read more →Following is a message from a list member, Angela Luke, who has symptoms apparently as a result of exposure to a mixture of RF sources in London. She has included her email address at the end for anyone who may wish to comment. Don ******************************************************* Sadly I am a new sufferer. About 6 weeks ago
Read more →AGENCY CALLED IN TO LOOK AT PHONE MAST HEALTH EFFECTS Tamworth Herald (UK) (Sent in by Sylvie) 10:30 – 30 June 2005 The Health Protection Agency has been called in to analyse the results of a survey which appears to show that a high number of Coleshill residents and schoolchildren are suffering with health problems.
Read more →While in New Zealand earlier this year, I had time to ‘compare notes’ with a fellow who lives near a major RF transmitter in Auckland New Zealand and have since verified his story with Professor Ivan Beale who used to live next door to him. At that time Ivan Beale became concerned about the proximity
Read more →Anti-phone mast group fears pupils already sick (provided by Sylvie) nlnews@archant.co.uk 29 June 2005 MUSWELL Hill Against the Masts campaigners are to carry out a survey of children in the area to see if they are suffering from radiation sickness. Campaign leaders, whose children go to schools and nurseries near the 3G mast in Grand
Read more →From: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/newssearch.php?newsid=23610 And: http://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=news&#nrpbes Correlation found between mobile phone masts and sleep disturbances 18 Jun 2005 “We have found that people who are very electrosensitive in the evening, do not sleep well in the night”. Prof. dr. Norbert Leitgeb of the Technical University of Graz in Austria told it to a journalist of the Grazer
Read more →Following is an article sent by Marne Glaser from the EMR Network, Chicago, USA on the latest breaking news from the telecom industry newspaper “RCR News” on yet another study from Sweden linking wireless phone radiation to brain tumors. For more information on wireless health research, contact: Marne Glaser EMR Network-Chicago 773 338 0248 Study
Read more →For those groups fighting inappropriate siting of power transmission lines, the following 2002 decision from the Planning & Environmental Court of Queensland (Australia) is a useful document. Citation: Energex Ltd. v Logan City Council & Ors [2002] QPEC 001 Delivered on: 11 January 2002 Exerpt from pages 19-20: ” (g) The existing overhead 11 kV
Read more →The Confessions of an economic hitman On Monday, June 20th, Australia”™s Radio National program, In the National Interest, aired a Terry Lane interview with John Perkins about his best selling book “The Confessions of an economic hitman”. Although a transcript is not available for that program I found a similar interview transcript from “Democracy Now”
Read more →Notice from the conference web site: http://imm.demokritos.gr/bioeffects/ Welcome to the 4th International Workshop on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields. This five days scientific Workshop will be held in Crete island on 16-20 October 2006 and is intended to cover all areas of EMF from basic research, experimental results, modelling and simulation, Policy, Safety and Standardization
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