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 →From Magda Havas: For distribution: A private school in Collingwood, Ontario has removed Wi-Fi and has installed wired technology. This is excellent news. I wish other schools would follow their lead. I understand that the teachers in the school are grateful as are the parents that their children are NOT going to be exposed to
Read more →From the science blog by Dariusz Leszczynski “Between A Rock and A Hard Place” On Mobile Phone Radiation Effects “˘ Did INTERPHONE commit”¦#3? As I mentioned in my previous blog,I have sent a letter to Dr. Christopher Wild, Director of IARC, asking him to take action in the matter of two recent publications from the
Read more →From Lyn McLean, EMR Australia: At 8.45am on Sunday 11th September the Robyn Williams program Ockham’s Razor will be featuring a talk on EMR by Lyn McLean on ABC Radio. Entitled ‘Mobile phones and cordless technology – are they safe?’, the 15-minute presentation will look at recent developments in Europe, at the controversy surrounding EMR
Read more →From Lyn McLean, EMR Australia PL www.emraustralia.com.au: The Sydney Morning Herald Ear-bashing: feeling the heat in a city that forever beeps Tim Elliott September 3, 2011 MARTIN PLACE has plenty; George Street pulses from moderate to high; the QVB is surprisingly low, but parts of Market Street are swimming in it. It’s radiofrequency radiation, and
Read more →From Katharina Gustavs: Changes of Clinically Important Neurotransmitters under the Influence of Modulated RF Fields http://www.buildingbiology.ca/input/emf-research-rimbach Just because many governments the world over pretend that there is no new RF research to warrant any rethinking of current exposure limits does not mean that this is true. One of the latest pilot studies from Germany on
Read more →From Lyn McLean: Australia’s phone tower code has been released for public comment – and you have an opportunity to have your say. Information about the code, the changes that have been made and why they have been made is available from the September issue of EMR and Health now available from EMR Australia. This
Read more →From Louis Slesin: The Interphone paper on acoustic neuroma has been published. Like last year’s brain tumor paper, it too points to a tumor risk among heavy users. For a short item on the results, go to: http://www.microwavenews.com Best, Louis __________________________________________________________ Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation Phone: +1 (212)
Read more →Source: www.wifiinschools.org.uk The Trades Union Congress in the UK has a document about carcinogens in the workplace ( http://www.tuc.org.uk/extras/occupationalcancer.pdf ). This offers guidance for all Trade Unions in the UK. In it they say ‘trade unions believe the aim should be to remove all exposure to any known or suspected carcinogen in the workplace .’
Read more →Sent in by Olle Johansson: The New York Times How Tanning Changes the Brain August 12, 2011, 12:01 am How Tanning Changes the Brain By ANAHAD O’CONNOR The brains of frequent tanners may be similar to those of addicts. People who frequently use tanning beds experience changes in brain activity during their tanning sessions that
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: What if you could treat cancer without surgery, without chemotherapy and without ionizing radiation? What if you could extend a dying patient’s life by years without any side effects? All that may be possible sooner than you think. American and Brazilian cancer researchers have succeeded in stabilizing and shrinking inoperable
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 Cindy sage: Critics of the Li paper on maternal EMF exposures and childhood asthma are quick to dismiss possible consequences of this important new study. One example is the comment of Prof. William Stewart in the UK. We draw his attention to the following published studies. “Prof William Stewart, Visiting Professor at University of
Read more →From Microwave News: It’s not just childhood leukemia anymore. An average exposure of only 2 mG during pregnancy leads to a significant increase in the risk of the child developing asthma. That’s the finding of a new study from Kaiser Permanente published today. Recently, everybody has been clamoring for prospective epidemiological studies. Now De-Kun Li,
Read more →On June 3, 2011, I mentioned on this blog the Inside New Zealand TV3 documentary, titled “Is Your Cell Phone Killing You?”. What I particularly like about this documentary, besides the excellent commentary from a wide range of people directly involved in the controversy, is that it achieves a balanced approach to the issue. It
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
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