Just like in those old US Western TV shows, when the cowboys were under threat from the marauding Indians and all was about to be lost, the Cavalry rides to the rescue just in time. Now we have the mobile phone industry under threat from the mounting scientific evidence that long term mobile phone use
Read more →In the Blog, “Between a Rock and A hard Place”, by Dariusz Leszczynski, he examines the continuing controversy generated by the media, scientists and industry spin doctors over the recent IARC ruling of RF as a possible carcinogen. He takes special exception to the statements of David Black, New Zealand’s expert on everything, the President
Read more →Yesterday Cambell LIve TV3 in New Zealand aired a story on the IARC ruling that included parts of a soon to be broadcast Inside New Zealand documentary on the controversy over electromagnetic radiation from a variety of sources. Well worth watching, especially the antics of David Black who freely admits that he is paid by
Read more →Auckland University academic and paid industry spokesperson David Black, who specializes in electromagnetic safety, claims that the question of cell phone radiation exposure risks had been settled. In making a radical departure from what the WHO/IARC found in their evaluation of the science Black claims that: “The whole idea of cancer and mobile handsets –
Read more →While there is a growing awareness over possible health hazards from wireless devices, See for example: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=1461 and http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=1444 a telcom conference in Bruni, a sovereign state on the island of Borneo, has proved that its all not true! Borneo was once best known for its practice of headhunting (not in the corporate sense) and
Read more →From Iris Atzmon: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/docs/scenihr_mi_014.pdf ***Served until 1996 as a consultant to the tobacco industry. “Prof. A. Ahlbom declared that for a few years, until 1996, he was a member of the Swedish Tobacco Company”s Medical Research Council” ***Ahlbom was one of five professors who wrote in 2001 in a Swedish newspaper that PCB, phenoxyacetic acids
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: When Mike Repacholi led the World Health Organization’s (WHO) EMF project, he took industry money and gave its people a seat at the table –allowing electric utilities and mobile phone companies to help set the agenda. [Don’s comment, see: http://www.emfacts.com/papers/who_conflict.pdf ] Now, Christopher Wild, the head of the International Agency
Read more →Opinion : “Question Everything” – The motto written on the side of one of the campus buildings at the Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorne Campus, Melbourne. For those interested in following the continuing controversy over the state-of-play in regards to cell phone research, the blog “Between a Rock and A Hard Place” by Research Professor
Read more →The below UK article exposes some of the underhanded tactics energy corporations use to manage environmental activist opposition to their activities. These tactics are widely used ( See Stauber and Rampton: Toxic Sludge is Good For You) and includes telecommunications. For example, some years ago I was able to conclusively confirm that my telephone conversations
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: “Radiation Research” has long been known as the journal of negative results for papers on EMFs. Now a recent former president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) says the society is threatened by its “biased scientific culture” that is often unable to accept positive results. Read our latest Short Take on
Read more →PRESS RELEASE from the Pandora Foundation: Attempt to Destroy Scientific Mobile Telecommunication Data at the Medical University of Vienna Failed Berlin, 31 January 2011 “” Mid-2007 Prof. Alexander Lerchl, a biologist at the private Jacobs University Bremen and a member of the German Commission on Radiological Protection at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, informs
Read more →From Dariusz Leszczynski’s blog: WHO has released its 2010 Research Agenda for Radiofrequency Fields (http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599948_eng.pdf). It is new but, to my great disappointment, there is nothing new. The opinion, as expected is very much influenced by the ICNIRP. Out of the 19 experts who met on February 2010 to formulate the new agenda, 10 are
Read more →NOTICE My PhD dissertation, The Procrustean Approach Setting Exposure Standards for Telecommunications Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation, is now available as a free download on the website of the International EMF Alliance. http://international-emf-alliance.org/ . Click on the publications box at the top. This is an examination of the manipulation of telecommunications standards by political, military, and industrial
Read more →From Devra Davis: BMJ on Conflicts of Interest, WHO and the pandemic flu “conspiracies” Deborah Cohen, features editor, BMJ, Philip Carter, journalist, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, London Key scientists advising the World Health Organization on planning for an influenza pandemic had done paid work for pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain from the guidance
Read more →Exerpt from my forthcoming book, chapter 4: ____ In July 2000 the WHO Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents released a 260 page report documenting the tobacco industry”s strategies to undermine the work of the WHO. At the same time the WHO issued a 15 page response document listing detailed steps to ensure that
Read more →Back in June of this year the World Health Organisation (WHO), acting on the expert advice of its supposedly independent influenza advisers, declared the H1N1 Swine Flu as a world pandemic that activated a number of processes to combat the disease, obstentially to protect the world’s population against the potentially deadly disease. Essentially the WHO
Read more →From Bürgerwelle News: Link: http://www.buergerwelle.de:8080/helma/twoday/bwnews/stories/53/ The Effects of Mobile-Phone Electromagnetic Fields on Brain Electrical Activity: A Critical Analysis of the Literature Abstract We analyzed the reports in which human brain electrical activity was compared between the presence and absence of radio-frequency and lowfrequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from mobile phones, or between pre- and post-exposure to
Read more →The below article was sent to this list by John and Rigmor Granlund-Lind as a follow-up to the previous message #996: “NO RISK”: A Trade Union Initiative cut short by Industry It is a translation of an article for FEB’s Swedish newsletter Ljusglimten (The Gleam of Light), Don ************************************************************************************ Gunni Nordström let us read your
Read more →“NO RISK”: A Trade Union Initiative cut short by Industry (Or how modern corporate risk assessment really works) Don Maisch, May 2007 (Note: the following was written in 2007 after interviews with a number of people involved with the NO RISK initiative and the Swedish trade union movement at the time. Footnote references from the
Read more →One would hope that by now the world has learned the very hard lesson that the George W. Bush administration and its policies are not to be trusted, to say the very least. This should be especially so in Europe but it seems that when it comes to regulatory science, the Bush administration”s policy makers,
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