From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Check out the latest pieces in Time and Popular Science magazines –and two old ones in Fortune. See, once again, how so little has changed. Go to: http://www.microwavenews.com Best, Louis Slesin __________________________________________________________ Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation Phone: +1 (212) 517-2800; Fax: +1 (212)
Read more →Sent in by Alasdair Philips, Powerwatch: First page from the 9 page report: Link: http://www.nutwooduk.co.uk/downloads/Toyota.doc Toyota “sticking pedals” recall is a smokescreen Their sudden unintended acceleration problem is caused by electronics either due to EMI, lead-free soldering or software “bugs” By EurIng Keith Armstrong FIET, C.Eng, ACGI, www.cherryclough.com, phone/fax: +44 (0)1785 660 247, 13th February
Read more →This story was sent in by Cindy Sage: ——————– Toyota calls in Exponent Inc. as hired gun ——————– The California engineering firm is known for helping big corporations weather messy disputes. It denies accusations that it skews results to benefit its clients. By Ken Bensinger and Ralph Vartabedian February 18 2010 When some of the
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 Alex Swinkels, the National Platform on Radiation Risks: 1) Progressive stages in world-wide knowledge development regarding Electromagnetic Fields & Health With this paper the Dutch National Platform on Radiation Risks aims to improve public awareness of the successive stages of development of knowledge about the domain of EMF&H which have occurred in recent decades.
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: On one side there’s the establishment scientists at ICNIRP and the lobbyists in industry and, on the other, the activists at organizations like NEXT-UP. But there’s very little in between. And, in case you missed it, check out Christopher Ketcham’s article, “Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your
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 →From the EMR Policy Institute: Please distribute this YouTube link as widely as possible. YouTube video exposes the workplace hazard to thousands of unsuspecting workers from radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure at “stealth” antenna sites. This is a seldom -discussed public health issue with implications for workers and their families, employers, building owners, and all FCC
Read more →Further exploring the problem of so-called counterintuitive research findings (Message #1189) an excellent article by John Lehrer in Wired magazine (Dec 21, 09) titled, Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up, is essential reading. The link is: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_accept_defeat/ Exerpt The reason we”re so resistant to anomalous information “” the real reason researchers automatically assume that
Read more →For those who tried to connect with the url for the last message and were unable to do so the correct link for “Thyroid cancer increase puzzles experts is: http://oralcancernews.org/wp/thyroid-cancer-increase-puzzles-experts/ Don
Read more →Link: http://oralcancernews.org/wp/2009/07/thyroid-cancer-increase-puzzles-experts Wed, Jul 15, 2009 Oral Cancer News Source: HealthDay News Author: Staff Intensified screening doesn’t entirely explain the jump in thyroid cancers noted in the United States since 1980, and scientists now believe that other as-yet-unknown factors are to blame. A new study finds that thyroid tumors of all sizes are being picked
Read more →From the Washington Post: Web giant says attacks were focused on accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and have forced the company to “review the feasibility of our business operations in China.” For more information, visit washingtonpost.com – http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/2GZNC0/1LACT/ZOJ6GD/7D92TY/X0008/XL/t
Read more →I have keep well away from giving an opinion on the Hadron Collider controversy for several reasons. Besides being off-topic for this list, scare talk about the creation of a Black Hole gobbling up the Earth like a cosmic PacMan seems just too ridiculous to even consider and better left to the Evangelical end-of-worlders to
Read more →From The Weekend Australian: December 5-6, 2009-12-18 AT THE COALFACE Doubtful Conclusions AS a neurosurgeon, I”m concerned about the health effects of wireless technology, in particular the possibility that long-term exposure to mobile phones, cordless phones and mobile base stations may be linked to neurological conditions. I believe I”m observing an increasing incidence of malignant
Read more →Friday, October 30, 2009 How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA Link: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24331/ A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic
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 Eileen O’Connor, Radiation Research Trust: The Porto Alegre Resolution http://www.icems.eu/docs/resolutions/Porto_Alegre_Resolution.pdf We, the undersigned scientists, were honored to participate in a workshop organized by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and the Public Ministry of Rio Grande do Sul and sponsored by the Brazilian Health Ministry, the International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety, the
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 Magda Havas, Trent University: I have two new websites that are “hot off the press”. 1. www.magdahavas.com deals primarily with electromagnetic issues intended for a general audience. 2. www.magdahavas.org is my academic website site that has my research on chemical contaminants and electromagnetic pollution. Please visit the sites and let me know what you
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