David Grant, scientific director of Leukemia Research said that the observed increase in leukemia risk for those living at distances greater than 60 m from a high voltage power line was most unlikely to be due to any residual electromagnetic field, or other exposures related to the power line. Therefore he thought that”It cannot be
Read more →Both “New Scientist” and “The Independent” have interesting articles on the Draper study which takes a more cautions look at the findings. Draper seems to be backing off from his study findings by making the usual old disclamers that have used to discount positive findings in EMF epidemiological studies ever since Wertheimer & Leeper’s 1970s
Read more →The long awaited UK Draper study has finally been published in the British Medical Journal, confirming, yet again, the connection between environmental level powerline magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia. How much more evidence do we need to protect public health? With the current public concerns being expressed in New Zealand and Canada (previous message) over
Read more →While the powerline health controversy continues to bubble away in New Zealand with a major TV documentary now in the making, a similar issue is now taking hold in Canada’s province of Newfoundland (Below). As with New Zealand, the ICNIRP spin doctors will be having meetings with the relevant Canadian authorities spinning their web of
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