On June 17 of this year Microwave News reported that the IEEE EMF & RF Standards Are Now downloadable for free. ( http://www.microwavenews.com/ShortTakes.html ) This charitable act act is brought to the world by the US Naval Surface Warfare Center who is sponsoring the downloads of five IEEE standards, including those for RF/MW. Further to
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Lancet Oncology posted a summary of the IARC working group’s decision to classify RF radiation as a possible human carcinogen this morning. In other news, check out our latest Short Takes on: ** The attendance at last week’s Bioelectromagnetics Society meeting in Nova Scotia; ** The U.S. military paying for
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
Read more →PRESS RELEASE of the International EMF Alliance, 3 Feb 2011 New International EMF Alliance Announces far-reaching Scientific Consensus Statement, Published Today: WORLD HEALTH Urgently Needs lower EMF Standards Oslo, Norway, February 3, 2011. The International EMF Alliance (IEMFA) today announces a new published report and scientific Consensus Statement concerning health hazards of electromagnetic fields (EMFs).
Read more →From Sarah Dacre, Trustee ES- UK Registered Charity No 1103018 BM Box ES-UK London WC1N 3XX Tel: 0845 643 9748 www.es-uk.info MEDIA ALERT NEW and IMPORTANT BOOK Electro sensitivity and Electro hypersensitivity – A Summary by Michael Bevington Michael Bevington, Chair of Trustees of ES-UK, has written a 43 page book designed primarily for doctors,
Read more →Dear Don, Since Cindy Sage has published her comments concerning my recent blog, I would like that also my responses to these comments would be available to EMFacts readers. Thanks, Dariusz Response to Cindy Sage comments Dear Cindy, In all three articles cited in my blog (two from ICNIRP SC-I, one from Rothman) and in
Read more →As Ahlbon et al points out in the latest ICNIRP inspired cell phone risk assessment, for carcinogens which have a very long average induction time, if there was a causal effect there should be an observable increase in risk much earlier than the average induction time. Asbestos exposure, an unfortunate legacy for many Australian workers,
Read more →The third blog “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” is available at http://rock-and-hard-place.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-reliable-is-epidemiological.html. It asks: How reliable is the epidemiological evidence on mobile phones and cancer? Friday, July 24, 2009 Comments by Cindy Sage on 3rd Blog – Between a Rock and A Hard Place Blog Dariusz, Several questions and comments: 1) You say
Read more →From the blog of Dariusz Leszczynski: ( Research Professor, STUK – Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority ) EXTRACT ONLY Friday, July 24, 2009 How reliable is the epidemiological evidence on mobile phones and cancer? This blog was updated on July 25th, 2009 with a post scriptum. The opening lecture of the recent BioEM 2009, the
Read more →From Microwave News: The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) has released two new reviews: One is a systematic look at RF radiation and health, and the other is on tumor risks from mobile phones. Details at: http://www.microwavenews.com Best, Louis Slesin __________________________________________________________ Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation Phone:
Read more →From Bente-Ingrid Bruun: The Danish book about the wireless society will soon be published, and therefore I send you an abstract in advance, but the book doesn’t have an ISBN number yet. Bente-Ingrid Abstract The EU Commission has given high priority to the development and expansion of the Wireless Marketplace and the Wireless Society. First
Read more →PRESS RELEASE July 20, 2007 Contact Information: CL Sage@ sage@silcom.com Expected release date: 31 August 07 (Internet- Full Public Access) BioInitiative: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) An international working group composed of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The BioInitiative) has joined together to document
Read more →Phone cancer report ‘buried’ ‘ by Daniel Foggo http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1655012.ece?pr int=yes T-MOBILE ‘BURIED’ CANCER REPORT See: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3586360/ From Omega News: The Sunday Times April 15, 2007 Phone cancer report ‘buried’ Daniel Foggo T-MOBILE, the mobile phone giant, has been accused of “burying” a scientific report it commissioned that concluded handsets and masts contribute to cancer and
Read more →From George Carlo: I would like to register a couple of additional comments relative to this latest Swedish review. “¢ Â Â The fundamental problem with this report as well as a number of other similar reports that appear a couple of times yearly is that they are focusing on the wrong types of data
Read more →Comments from Olle Johansson re. last message: “It is a strange message coming from the SSI, since – at the very same time – they (including Lars Mjönes) have recently (February 8, 2007) strongly warned for mobiles and children’s exposure. For instance, in the Swedish evening paper “Expressen” it says: ” The cellular phone damages
Read more →The latest report on EMF health risks from an expert committee for the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSI) is now available on-line at: http://www.ssi.se/ssi_rapporter/pdf/ssi_rapp_2007_4.pdf The report, overall, is very conservative and dismissive of health effects from both ELF and RF/MW exposures. Positive findings are mentioned but then generally discounted. An example is the often replicated
Read more →Eileen O,Connor from the Research Radiation Trust, UK, has sent out a pdf file of a German language report done by the ECOLOG Institute in Hannover, Germany. The report apparently is a review of the available literature on possible health impacts of telecommunications. A colleague of Eileen’s has provided a summary of the report but
Read more →Why searching out some information for my thesis I happened to come across an interesting paper titled: “Why States Believe Foolish Ideas: Non-Self-Evaluation By States And Societies” by Stephen Van Evera, January 10, 2002 For the topic of this list, those readers interested in why the Myth of ICNIRP and why Repacholian pseudo-science continues to
Read more →From Eileen O’Connor: Please see enclosed information about the launch of Martin Walker”™s new book, Brave New World of Zero Risk : Covert strategy in British science policy, together with information about the book. The book is free to anyone who cares to download it. If you want to support the book, inform as many
Read more →The other day I was asked to supply what information I had on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to an organisation in the US that is getting increasing reports of ill-health possibly associated with unknown RF sources. In addition to the material available on my web site I managed to dig up in the files an
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