From The Washington Post: By John Donnelly Special to The Washington Post Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ 2010/02/12/AR2010021204438.html?hpid=sec-health Tuesday, February 16, 2010 EXERPT: Lisa Oakley knows that some studies on long-term use of cellphones suggest an increased correlation with cancerous tumors. And she knows of a couple of people who have had brain tumors, and wonders whether their
Read more →New Florida University Study Fatally Flawed By William Thomas http://willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Forget_About_Cell_Phones_ Preven.html The news broke like a bombshell” “Want To Prevent Alzheimer’s? Use Your Cell Phone More” trumpeted a scientific website: If your friends and family give you trouble for spending too much time on your cell phone, scientists at the University of South Florida may
Read more →After being relatively quite lately in Australia as far as mobile phone tower protests (with the notable exception of an army tank being used to take out a number of towers by a disgruntled former Telsta employee) it seems that Telstra’s recent mishandling of a concerned community in Bardon, Queensland has backfired on the carrier
Read more →From Cindy Sage (as posted on the cheemf list): A landmark paper by Igor Belayev’s team at Stockholm University has reported that very low intensity microwave radiation from mobile phones inhibits DNA repair processes in human stem cells. By placing a mobile phone at one meter distance from human stem cells in petri dishes (SAR
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 →Dr. Wright, Australia’s most known media medical commentator has joined the growing list of Australian doctors who have publically expressed concern over the possible link between mobile phone use and brain tumours. The following is from Dr Wright’s February 7, 2010 question and answer segment, published in the Sunday Tasmanian. Mobile phone menace CAN mobile
Read more →From AlterNet: http://www.alternet.org/environment/145562/could_your_cell_phone_ end_up_killing_you A new debate is raging over whether prolonged cell phone use poses serious health side effects. February 5, 2010 | Exerpt: In the debate over cell phones, there doesn’t appear to be any consensus on what, exactly, the harmful health effects on cell phone users may be. Unfortunately, the scary truth
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 Dariusz Leszczynski : The web-based journal “Health Reseach Policy and Systems” (HARPS; part of the BioMed Central) has published a commentary by Dariusz Leszczynski and Zhengping Xu. “Mobile phone radiation health risk controversy: the reliability and sufficiency of science behind the safety standards”. The article is available here: http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/8/1/2 The provisional pdf is available
Read more →In reference to the below conference an excellent book to read is Gunni Nordstrom’s “The Invisible Disease: The dangers of Environmental Illness caused by Electromagnetic Fields and Chemical Emissions”. As far as a chemical link with EMF sensitivity, people working in electrical environments are also usually posed to a wide range of chemical emissions that
Read more →Message #1203 mentioned the investigative cell phone article by Christopher Ketcham in GQ Mazazine and this message follows it up further. Even though the article is primarily aimed at the American audience the problem is universal: the involvement of political and corporate entities in suppressing and controlling science to protect their interests to the detriment
Read more →Link: http://www.next-up.org/pages/Justice.php#1 December 16, 2009 Donata Bonometti Today, for the first time, a Labour Tribunal recognized the occupational origin of the disease of a man who for ten years was a company executive in Brescia. He worked for long hours using a cell phone and a cordless phone. The man, Innocenzo Marcolini, 57, had a
Read more →From Camilla Rees: ON NEWS STANDS NOW: “Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to your Health” – by investigative journalists Christopher Ketcham in the Feb 2010 issue of GQ magazine Read review and listen to interview with the article’s author, Christopher Ketcham, by Camilla Rees of www.ElectromagneticHealth.org : http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/cell-phones-the- new-cigarettes-gq-thinks-so/
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 Elizabeth Kelly, ICEMS: Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety, I just produced some public education materials on safer cell phone use by teens and young children. See www.icems.eu. Click on campaign for “safer cell phone use.” This information was prepared under the direct guidance of and participation by Dr.
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 →From Camilla Rees: Camilla Rees Interviews Representative Andrea Boland (D-Sanford) of Maine. Rep. Andrea Boland is the first state legislator to propose a bill that would require warning labels on cell phones. Learn what this bill, the Children’s Wireless Protection Act (LD 1706), is calling for, what the warning label will look like and how
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Most managers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) refuse to allow that the EMFcancer playbook may be different from the one for chemicals. Even now, when there is ample evidence that power line EMFs can increase the risk of childhood leukemia and there is a growing suspicion
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
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