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 →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 →Following is the text of a paper jointly written by Olle Johansson and I. It was published in the ACNEM journal, Vol 29, no.2, September 2010. A pdf of the journal is available from EMF Consultancy upon request. Don ******************************************************************************* Silencing inconvenient research in Sweden: The death of the No-Risk and Healthy Office projects In
Read more →Amazon Book Review by Jesse Kornbluth “Head Butler” http://www.amazon.com/review/R1GYI94Q6D0NR6/ref=cm_cr_pr_ viewpnt#R1GYI94Q6D0NR6 This review is from: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover) If you are a candidate for a stroke or heart attack — or just have fond hopes that your child or
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 Martin Weatherall, W.E.E.P. News: 21 July 2010 Support for EMF researcher goes global, puts Karolinska Pres. Wallberg-Henriksson in spotlight to respond By John Weigel Controversy surrounding research into the effects of microwave radiation has accelerated with doctors and researchers from both sides of the Atlantic calling for Harriet Wallberg- Henriksson, president of the Karolinka
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Why don’t the rules governing conflicts of interest ever apply to EMFs? See the latest example from a new report issued by the International Risk Governance Council. Read all about it at: http://www.microwavenews.com Best, Louis Slesin __________________________________________________________ Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation Phone: +1
Read more →From the World Business Academy and Truthout:. Friday 22 January 2010 Link: http://www.truthout.org/spellcasters-the-hunt-buy-button-your-brain56278 by: World Business Academy, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Editor’s Note: Truthout is joining with the World Business Academy in an effort to demonstrate popular opposition to the unethical practice of neuromarketing manipulation. Please visit the Stop
Read more →In the National Geographic reporting on the Alzheimer’s study ( last message) ) researcher Sanchez-Ramos called the finding “a dramatic and counterintuitive effect” (beneficial / protective). I am reminded of other “counterintuitive” findings by Pamela Sykes from Flinders University in South Australia and those of Ross Adey. In both cases they found an apparent protective
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Pity those who are trying to follow the cell phone brain tumor story. Their sense of the cancer risk is most likely a reflection of the last thing they read or saw on TV. It all depends on whose sound bite they happen to catch. And one big problem is
Read more →1) From Henrik Eiriksson: One thing said by Croft intrigues me, given the dates of the newspaper articles are so recent: “Khurana acknowledged this by referencing “referral bias” but said future research would clarify the matter. Such research has been conducted and found no increase in tumour rates.” I’m confused. Does Rodney Croft have a
Read more →It has been pointed out that there were some errors in the money amounts mentioned in the last message due to the Google translation. This has been corrected on the link for the last message. The amount mentioned was 6.3 million euros, which is the equivalent of 47 million Danish KRONER and not dollars or
Read more →From Henrik Eiriksson: Find below a corrected translation of the latest article on WHO expert’s secret ties to industry from Danish paper “Information”: Best, Henrik —————————————————————————————- WHO adviser didn’t disclose million-dollar contribution from pharmaceutical industry. A Finnish member of the WHO vaccine advisory group received 6.3 million euro (47 million Danish KRONER) from vaccine manufacturer
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 →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 →In doing an internet search for connections between the University of Pittsburgh and a number of telco companies I hit pay dirt with the words “University of Pittsburgh Verizon “. Interesting to find that Verizon Wireless is now a “strategic partner” with the University of Pittsburgh. I suppose Verizon would consider this a very good
Read more →From Katharina Gustavs: Don, I noticed the same thing and started wondering about it. Interestingly, the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the same University of Pittsburgh still posts the advisory. None of the provided links within the university work anymore but all the links to the news outlets reporting about the advisory. http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/news/article.asp?qEmpID=333 A
Read more →Earlier this year a cell phone report and precautionary advice issued by the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute gained international attention. Titled The case for Precaution in the Use of Cell Phones. Advice from the University or Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Based on Advice from an International Expert Panel. The report also listed ten precautions to reduce the
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
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