Sent in by Kerstin Stenberg Here is a later version of the previous article. This one written by Kerstin Stenberg and Mona Nilsson October 2, 2011 Mobile phones and cancer risks Scientists manipulated research “” played down brain tumour risks in children. A new industry-sponsored study on brain tumour risks in children who use mobile
Read more →From Lloyd Morgan: To paraphrase Shakespeare, Something”™s rotten in Europe and Rockville, Maryland, USA. The attached news article, recently picked up by Swedish television is by Mona Nilsson, a Swedish investigative reporter. Her previous investigation into the conflicts-of-interest held by Professor Anders Ahlbom from the highly prestigious Karolinska Institute, resulted Professor Ahlbom”™s summary dismissal from
Read more →Taken from “A Machiavellian Spin: Political and corporate involvement with cell phone research in Australia” Exerpt (with a few updates) Following on from the last message, the shadowy “hidden hand” of Motorola is also seen with what happened to the study by Dr. Pamela Sykes from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Syke”™s study, funded
Read more →Taken from “A Machiavellian Spin: Political and corporate involvement with cell phone research in Australia” In 1996 the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC), established an expert committee to oversee and recommend research into the safety of mobile phones. Concerned about the potential involvement of the telecommunications industry in this process, Sarah Benson,
Read more →While searching through the Microwave News archives: http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html (July 11, 2005) I came across the following snippet about words being added in a published paper without the author’s permission and knowledge that downplayed the significance of the findings. See second paragraph. Don July 11, 2005… The Toronto Star is running a series of articles on
Read more →Sent in by Olle Johansson The New Zealand Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/middle-east/news/article.cfm?l_id=8&objectid=10749523&ref=rss US regulators are investigating an Austrian lobbyist and US telecom maker Motorola over alleged bribes of up to 2.2 million euros (NZ$3.68m), Austrian weekly Profil revealed at the weekend. From April 2004 onwards, Motorola apparently transferred up to 2.2 million euros to three firms controlled
Read more →In the previous message Cindy Sage responds to the criticisms of Professor William Stewart. NOTE that this is NOT Sir William Stewart head the IEGMP Stewart Report on mobile phones. The Professor Will Stewart referred to in the Sage article, and who was the expert criticizing the De-Kun study linking magnetic field exposure to asthma
Read more →From the Mobilewise blog: Children”™s mobile risks “” are we getting the full picture? Posted on July 29, 2011 by Charlotte Henry The latest industry-funded study on children and mobile phones is being presented as giving them the all-clear. But there are many reasons why it shouldn”™t reassure us “” not least because it studied
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: The news coverage on the new study out of Europe on children’s tumor risks from mobile phones paints a rosy picture: Everybody is saying that there’s no link. But a close examination of the paper tells a very different story. In a word, it’s a mess. Much like Interphone, the
Read more →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 →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Ironically, as many are asking what research should be done after IARC’s decision to designate RF radiation as a possible cancer agent, Australia’s RF research center has closed down. We think we know why. In other news, Anders Ahlbom has resigned from a key Swedish government advisory panel. And two
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 Enrico Grani commenting on “Scaremongering on Today Tonight: the truth about wireless radiation risks” See message #1401. “Dear Professor Rodney Croft, You state: “Mobile phones, for instance, are not hindered by the need to have cables connecting them, and can send and receive information from virtually anywhere”. Statements like this are irrelevant to an
Read more →From Truthout: http://www.truth-out.org/fixing-fcc-americas-broken-regulator/1306505275 Friday 27 May 2011 by: Emily Badger, Miller-McCune FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced earlier this month that she’s leaving the agency for a job as the senior vice president of government affairs for Comcast-NBC Universal. The decision wasn’t particularly surprising or even unusual. Public servants exit government all the time for
Read more →From Iris Atzmon: The below calls demand a full disclosure of very apparent conflicts of interests, one of them replaces Anders Ahlbom who was just kicked from IARC’s committee because of his conflicts of interest. 1) from The EMR Policy Institute, Inc. JNewton@emrpolicy.org Jack Siemiatycki, University of Montreal, Canada replaces Anders Ahlbom. It seems he
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: It’s been a busy day in Europe with lots of fallout from yesterday’s report that IARC removed Anders Ahlbom from its RF cancer working group. Ahlbom, for instance, has counter-attacked and is asking that Lennart Hardell be kicked out too. And in Stockholm, the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority has opened
Read more →Coming hard on the heels of Anders Ahlbom from the Karolinska Institute being exposed as a shill of the Telcom industry (See: http://www.microwavenews.com/Ahlbom.html ) is an excellent article by Elliot Ross on similar tactics used to corrupt medical drug research. Don From the Guardian, 20 May 2011: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/20/drug-companies-ghost-writing-journalism How drug companies’ PR tactics skew the
Read more →From the International EMF Alliance: Please distribute this link as widely as possible Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) The problem of conflict of interest & commercial influence in WHO agencies and the need for public interest representation Don Maisch PhD May 5, 2011 Abstract The International Agency for Research
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