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Starmail - 10. Feb, 23:52
10
Feb
2006
Experts investigating biological effects of cell phone radiation asked to shut up or quit jobs
No place to hide: Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
In June 2002 in the journal "No place to hide" we could read that Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA (Spain), Olle JOHANSON (Sweden), Lebrecht von KLITZING (Germany), Gerard HYLAND (England) and Roger SANTINI (France), were under pressures because of their studies on mobile telephony.
Omega see under: http://www.laleva.cc/environment/cellphones.html
The story is not finished!
Please found a message from my friend Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA ("LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT"), who tell us that he is again, under official pressure.
- Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA: Email: gomez_cla@gva.es
Amitiés.
Roger.
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LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT:
We, the members of the Spanish team who did the work about microwave exposure from GSM base stations and possible health consequences to the surrounding neighbours (*); won´t be able to continue working on this topic after being denied the grant to finance those studies. We had to wait as whichever other research group, a long year until receive recently a very simplistic letter, only four lines from the Health Institute Carlos III (if you wish to write: webmaster@isciii.es) as responsible for the Spanish studies of the Health Ministry at Madrid.
They point out that our team has not sufficient curriculum and experience being the methodology and objectives unclear. But, how can be it true if we are extending the initial study published in an international scientific journal, only to a bigger sample, the former accepted from the scientific community being continuously cited as reference article, as one of the pioneer works in this area.
However and very curiously, this Institute which now cut our wings failed to produce scientific results from some intriguing clusters of malign tumours occurred in several places of Spain, where important wireless structures were build close to children areas, for instance the García-Quintana School of Valladolid (until five diagnosed leukaemia’s in its students under 6 year old ) and other places... thinking only in lacking interest from them to conclude some plausible results: Or, finally summarized in the Spanish proverb, be the gardener’s dog: don’t eating and don’t let others eat.
Yours ,
Dr. Claudio Gómez-Perretta
(*) Navarro, E. A., Segura, J., Portolés, M., and Gómez-Perretta de Mateo, C. 2003. The microwave syndrome: A preliminary study in Spain. Electromagn. Biol. Med. 22: 160-169.
Omega see under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_microwave_syndrome_a_preliminary_study_in_spain_2003.pdf
Informant: Iris Atzmon
--------
The study which was not funded
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2180509/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=microwave+syndrome
In June 2002 in the journal "No place to hide" we could read that Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA (Spain), Olle JOHANSON (Sweden), Lebrecht von KLITZING (Germany), Gerard HYLAND (England) and Roger SANTINI (France), were under pressures because of their studies on mobile telephony.
Omega see under: http://www.laleva.cc/environment/cellphones.html
The story is not finished!
Please found a message from my friend Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA ("LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT"), who tell us that he is again, under official pressure.
- Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA: Email: gomez_cla@gva.es
Amitiés.
Roger.
-----------------
LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT:
We, the members of the Spanish team who did the work about microwave exposure from GSM base stations and possible health consequences to the surrounding neighbours (*); won´t be able to continue working on this topic after being denied the grant to finance those studies. We had to wait as whichever other research group, a long year until receive recently a very simplistic letter, only four lines from the Health Institute Carlos III (if you wish to write: webmaster@isciii.es) as responsible for the Spanish studies of the Health Ministry at Madrid.
They point out that our team has not sufficient curriculum and experience being the methodology and objectives unclear. But, how can be it true if we are extending the initial study published in an international scientific journal, only to a bigger sample, the former accepted from the scientific community being continuously cited as reference article, as one of the pioneer works in this area.
However and very curiously, this Institute which now cut our wings failed to produce scientific results from some intriguing clusters of malign tumours occurred in several places of Spain, where important wireless structures were build close to children areas, for instance the García-Quintana School of Valladolid (until five diagnosed leukaemia’s in its students under 6 year old ) and other places... thinking only in lacking interest from them to conclude some plausible results: Or, finally summarized in the Spanish proverb, be the gardener’s dog: don’t eating and don’t let others eat.
Yours ,
Dr. Claudio Gómez-Perretta
(*) Navarro, E. A., Segura, J., Portolés, M., and Gómez-Perretta de Mateo, C. 2003. The microwave syndrome: A preliminary study in Spain. Electromagn. Biol. Med. 22: 160-169.
Omega see under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_microwave_syndrome_a_preliminary_study_in_spain_2003.pdf
Informant: Iris Atzmon
--------
The study which was not funded
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2180509/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=microwave+syndrome
Starmail - 10. Feb, 23:22
MOBILE FIRMS ARE LIABLE IN ANY GARDA PHONE MAST CASES
Am sending the two reports below along to you for posting.
Best,
Imelda, Cork
THE IRISH TIMES, FRI, FEB 10, 06
"MOBILE FIRMS ARE LIABLE IN ANY GARDA PHONE MAST CASES
[by] Martin Wall
Mobile phone companies using masts on Garda [police] stations or other public buildings will have to meet the costs of any compensation claims taken against the State by persons who allege that their health has been damaged by electro-magnetic radiation. The Dail Committee of Public Accounts was told yesterday by chairman of the Office of Public Works Sean Benton that under an agreement with the State the mobile phone companies had to indemnify the Government against any future claims. He said the companies also had to comply with existing health and safety directives and to meet any future measures that may be put in place. There are mobile phone massts on about 120 Garda stations. The Government first entered into an agreement with Esat Digifone (now O2) in 1997. However, last year the Office of Public Works (OPW) put in place a new deal to allow various mobile phone companies to place masts on Garda stations and other public buildings. Socialist Party deputy Joe Higgins said the long-term effect of radiation generated by mobile phone masts was not yet known. He expressed concern that if dangers to health emerged in the future as a result of such masts that not only would public employees have been put at potential risk but also the State could be exposed to largescale liability for damages. Secretary general of the Department of Justice Sean Aylward said that under the agreement with O2, gardai received just over 1,000 mobile phones. He said that the first 450 phones, as well as call and rental charges, were provided free. However, the remainder has to be paid for by the State. The cost of calls and other charges are deducted from the rental payments for the masts due to the OPW from the phone compnay. Mr Aylward said mobile phones were provided to all personnel of superintendent rank and upwards."
IRISH EXAMINER, THURSDAY, 09.02.06
Expert warns Irish mobile phone masts unsafe
By Dan Buckley and Tom Prendeville ONE of the world's leading experts in mobile phone technology has warned that the radiation output from Irish phone masts is at least 100 times too high for safety.
His warning comes as new research reveals that long-term use of mobile phones poses an increased risk of brain cancer.
According to Dr David Aldridge, a scientist who has worked developing microwave technology for the US Government, the international 'safety' limits which Ireland adheres to are out of date and totally flawed.
"What is happening is that the external signals (from mobile phones) are swamping the body's natural internal signals," he said.
This can lead to cancers and a whole range of other serious medical disorders, particularly among children, he said.
"Expose a cell to microwaves from a mast or phone and it interferes with the cell repair process. In the case of young children, the rate of cells dividing in half to form new ones is so fast that you end up with a vast number of what we call mis-repairs."
According to Dr Aldridge, the current international safety standards are over 50 years old and obsolete.
Meanwhile, a new study into the risks associated with using mobile phones has found an increased risk of brain tumours in people who have used them for 10 years or more.
The study, by German researchers, found an increased risk of glioma, an often deadly brain cancer, in people who had used mobile phones for over a decade.
However, a similar study in Britain appears to contradict these findings and concludes that there is no proof that long-term mobile phone use can cause glioma.
Both studies are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by mobile phones.
The German study, conducted by Joachim Schuz and colleagues at the University of Mainz, compared a group of 749 brain tumour patients with 1,494 similar people who had not used mobile phones and found a doubling of the risk of glioma after 10 years of use.
They said the number of people in the study who had used the phones for 10 years was small and the findings need to be confirmed by other studies.
This same 10-year threshold has previously been reported for acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour of the acoustic nerve, by two Swedish teams.
"This result is very difficult to interpret," said Dr Schuz.
"I can only say that it's still an open question whether there is a tumour risk for more than 10 years of use."
The British researchers found no overall increased risk in people who used mobile phones.
Although it revealed a significantly increased risk for tumours that developed on the same side of the head where patients said they most often held the phone, lead researcher Patricia McKinney, an epidemiologist at the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, said that the finding probably was due to many patients not accurately recalling which ear they had used most.
The Swedish study, conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumour called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of mobile phone use.
Mobile phones: Do's and don'ts
Keep mobile phone conversations short.
Consider using a text message or picture message as an alternative.
Choose a handset with a lower SAR rating, which means it emits less radiation.
Don't hold the phone to your head when you can use a hands-free kit.
Consider using a phone with an external aerial.
Limit the amount of time that children use mobile phones.
Best,
Imelda, Cork
THE IRISH TIMES, FRI, FEB 10, 06
"MOBILE FIRMS ARE LIABLE IN ANY GARDA PHONE MAST CASES
[by] Martin Wall
Mobile phone companies using masts on Garda [police] stations or other public buildings will have to meet the costs of any compensation claims taken against the State by persons who allege that their health has been damaged by electro-magnetic radiation. The Dail Committee of Public Accounts was told yesterday by chairman of the Office of Public Works Sean Benton that under an agreement with the State the mobile phone companies had to indemnify the Government against any future claims. He said the companies also had to comply with existing health and safety directives and to meet any future measures that may be put in place. There are mobile phone massts on about 120 Garda stations. The Government first entered into an agreement with Esat Digifone (now O2) in 1997. However, last year the Office of Public Works (OPW) put in place a new deal to allow various mobile phone companies to place masts on Garda stations and other public buildings. Socialist Party deputy Joe Higgins said the long-term effect of radiation generated by mobile phone masts was not yet known. He expressed concern that if dangers to health emerged in the future as a result of such masts that not only would public employees have been put at potential risk but also the State could be exposed to largescale liability for damages. Secretary general of the Department of Justice Sean Aylward said that under the agreement with O2, gardai received just over 1,000 mobile phones. He said that the first 450 phones, as well as call and rental charges, were provided free. However, the remainder has to be paid for by the State. The cost of calls and other charges are deducted from the rental payments for the masts due to the OPW from the phone compnay. Mr Aylward said mobile phones were provided to all personnel of superintendent rank and upwards."
IRISH EXAMINER, THURSDAY, 09.02.06
Expert warns Irish mobile phone masts unsafe
By Dan Buckley and Tom Prendeville ONE of the world's leading experts in mobile phone technology has warned that the radiation output from Irish phone masts is at least 100 times too high for safety.
His warning comes as new research reveals that long-term use of mobile phones poses an increased risk of brain cancer.
According to Dr David Aldridge, a scientist who has worked developing microwave technology for the US Government, the international 'safety' limits which Ireland adheres to are out of date and totally flawed.
"What is happening is that the external signals (from mobile phones) are swamping the body's natural internal signals," he said.
This can lead to cancers and a whole range of other serious medical disorders, particularly among children, he said.
"Expose a cell to microwaves from a mast or phone and it interferes with the cell repair process. In the case of young children, the rate of cells dividing in half to form new ones is so fast that you end up with a vast number of what we call mis-repairs."
According to Dr Aldridge, the current international safety standards are over 50 years old and obsolete.
Meanwhile, a new study into the risks associated with using mobile phones has found an increased risk of brain tumours in people who have used them for 10 years or more.
The study, by German researchers, found an increased risk of glioma, an often deadly brain cancer, in people who had used mobile phones for over a decade.
However, a similar study in Britain appears to contradict these findings and concludes that there is no proof that long-term mobile phone use can cause glioma.
Both studies are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by mobile phones.
The German study, conducted by Joachim Schuz and colleagues at the University of Mainz, compared a group of 749 brain tumour patients with 1,494 similar people who had not used mobile phones and found a doubling of the risk of glioma after 10 years of use.
They said the number of people in the study who had used the phones for 10 years was small and the findings need to be confirmed by other studies.
This same 10-year threshold has previously been reported for acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour of the acoustic nerve, by two Swedish teams.
"This result is very difficult to interpret," said Dr Schuz.
"I can only say that it's still an open question whether there is a tumour risk for more than 10 years of use."
The British researchers found no overall increased risk in people who used mobile phones.
Although it revealed a significantly increased risk for tumours that developed on the same side of the head where patients said they most often held the phone, lead researcher Patricia McKinney, an epidemiologist at the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, said that the finding probably was due to many patients not accurately recalling which ear they had used most.
The Swedish study, conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumour called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of mobile phone use.
Mobile phones: Do's and don'ts
Keep mobile phone conversations short.
Consider using a text message or picture message as an alternative.
Choose a handset with a lower SAR rating, which means it emits less radiation.
Don't hold the phone to your head when you can use a hands-free kit.
Consider using a phone with an external aerial.
Limit the amount of time that children use mobile phones.
Starmail - 10. Feb, 15:05
Power Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Melatonin and the Risk of Breast Cancer
From: Eileen O'Connor
eileen@smokestackltd.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:15:56 -0000
Subject: Abstract by Dr John Walker
Please see message received today from Dr Walker, responding to my recent e-mails about Professor Swerdlow.
Eileen O'Connor
Abstract (general) by Dr John Walker CPhys
* Professor Cherry of New Zealand in 2000 made a presentation to the Parliament of Europe on the above subject. During the last few years, experimental data is accumulating at an increasing rate, that verifies his predictions without exception.
* Scientific and Health Truth has also been diverging at an increasing rate from Political and Economic Truth over the last 9 years since ICNIRP (International Committee on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) made the biggest mistake in scientific history and unconsciously misled the many administrations in the world by choosing guidelines 4.5 million times as high as those chosen by Salzburg (power units). Phones still work in Salzburg.
* Most administrative bodies are weak in science and therefore have no conception of when they have been misled. Since the "he who pays the piper calls the tune" all sub administrations are cautious and unwilling to "rock the boat" or "blow the whistle" especially when high economic yields are concerned.
* The Government's 21 billion pound licence fee from the mobile telephone industry has locked the country into a legalised sustained electromagnetic attack on the population living in the highest field strength areas near a mast, especially in beam patch areas, often ten times the height of the mast away and with a 3 pole mast the patches will be 120 degrees apart. There is a real occurrence of a cancer rate of 3 times normal and 8 years earlier (Naila), and 4 times normal (Netanya) together with the Bamberger study and the Oberfeld/Navarro study which showed an odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendencies along with increases of other unspecified illnesses.
* G3 is more penetrative of house walls than GSM. The old radio waves were a nice sinusoidal shape, however G3 waves are very sharp digitally switched to transmit vision signals. "These can swamp the bodies internal signals" and lead to the above data. (Dr David Aldridge)
Recent measurements of melatonin in urine show that microwaves cause an 80% drop in Melatonin which controls our immune system at night. This makes us susceptible to many diseases since our natural defence against cosmic rays is compromised. This applies to all vertebrea.
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
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Peer Review gone rotten: AGNIR’s review of breast cancer and EMFs
On Feb 9, 2006 The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR), under the leadership of Professor Anthony Swerdlow (a senior member of ICNIRP and who enjoys a commanding role in influencing the British cancer charities research into cancer) released its latest viewpoint on breast cancer, melatonin and power frequency EMFs. Using an extremely biased review of the science, Swerdlow and crew were able to discount all the evidence to the contrary to come up with a convenient exoneration for the power industry. Watch the WHO and ICNIRP push this as still another independent expert report representing a scientific consensus of the international scientific community.
A very valuable report for the industy as it will be quoted for years in court and planning cases - and who will dare question the experts?
Don Maisch
Press Release
9 February 2006
Power Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Melatonin and the Risk of Breast Cancer
The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR) today published a report that examines whether electromagnetic fields (EMFs) associated with the supply and use of electricity can influence the risk of breast cancer. Following a thorough review of the published scientific literature, the report concludes that overall the evidence does not support the hypothesis that exposure to EMFs is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. In addition, EMFs do not appear to affect the production or biological action of the hormone melatonin.
Full report : http://www.hpa.org.uk/publications/2005/rce1/default.htm
Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=383
eileen@smokestackltd.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:15:56 -0000
Subject: Abstract by Dr John Walker
Please see message received today from Dr Walker, responding to my recent e-mails about Professor Swerdlow.
Eileen O'Connor
Abstract (general) by Dr John Walker CPhys
* Professor Cherry of New Zealand in 2000 made a presentation to the Parliament of Europe on the above subject. During the last few years, experimental data is accumulating at an increasing rate, that verifies his predictions without exception.
* Scientific and Health Truth has also been diverging at an increasing rate from Political and Economic Truth over the last 9 years since ICNIRP (International Committee on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) made the biggest mistake in scientific history and unconsciously misled the many administrations in the world by choosing guidelines 4.5 million times as high as those chosen by Salzburg (power units). Phones still work in Salzburg.
* Most administrative bodies are weak in science and therefore have no conception of when they have been misled. Since the "he who pays the piper calls the tune" all sub administrations are cautious and unwilling to "rock the boat" or "blow the whistle" especially when high economic yields are concerned.
* The Government's 21 billion pound licence fee from the mobile telephone industry has locked the country into a legalised sustained electromagnetic attack on the population living in the highest field strength areas near a mast, especially in beam patch areas, often ten times the height of the mast away and with a 3 pole mast the patches will be 120 degrees apart. There is a real occurrence of a cancer rate of 3 times normal and 8 years earlier (Naila), and 4 times normal (Netanya) together with the Bamberger study and the Oberfeld/Navarro study which showed an odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendencies along with increases of other unspecified illnesses.
* G3 is more penetrative of house walls than GSM. The old radio waves were a nice sinusoidal shape, however G3 waves are very sharp digitally switched to transmit vision signals. "These can swamp the bodies internal signals" and lead to the above data. (Dr David Aldridge)
Recent measurements of melatonin in urine show that microwaves cause an 80% drop in Melatonin which controls our immune system at night. This makes us susceptible to many diseases since our natural defence against cosmic rays is compromised. This applies to all vertebrea.
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
--------
Peer Review gone rotten: AGNIR’s review of breast cancer and EMFs
On Feb 9, 2006 The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR), under the leadership of Professor Anthony Swerdlow (a senior member of ICNIRP and who enjoys a commanding role in influencing the British cancer charities research into cancer) released its latest viewpoint on breast cancer, melatonin and power frequency EMFs. Using an extremely biased review of the science, Swerdlow and crew were able to discount all the evidence to the contrary to come up with a convenient exoneration for the power industry. Watch the WHO and ICNIRP push this as still another independent expert report representing a scientific consensus of the international scientific community.
A very valuable report for the industy as it will be quoted for years in court and planning cases - and who will dare question the experts?
Don Maisch
Press Release
9 February 2006
Power Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Melatonin and the Risk of Breast Cancer
The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR) today published a report that examines whether electromagnetic fields (EMFs) associated with the supply and use of electricity can influence the risk of breast cancer. Following a thorough review of the published scientific literature, the report concludes that overall the evidence does not support the hypothesis that exposure to EMFs is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. In addition, EMFs do not appear to affect the production or biological action of the hormone melatonin.
Full report : http://www.hpa.org.uk/publications/2005/rce1/default.htm
Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=383
Starmail - 10. Feb, 14:04
9
Feb
2006
Expert warns Irish mobile phone masts unsafe
By Dan Buckley and Tom Prendeville
ONE of the world's leading experts in mobile phone technology has warned that the radiation output from Irish phone masts is at least 100 times too high for safety.
His warning comes as new research reveals that long-term use of mobile phones poses an increased risk of brain cancer.
According to Dr David Aldridge, a scientist who has worked developing microwave technology for the US Government, the international 'safety' limits which Ireland adheres to are out of date and totally flawed.
"What is happening is that the external signals (from mobile phones) are swamping the body's natural internal signals," he said.
This can lead to cancers and a whole range of other serious medical disorders, particularly among children, he said.
"Expose a cell to microwaves from a mast or phone and it interferes with the cell repair process. In the case of young children, the rate of cells dividing in half to form new ones is so fast that you end up with a vast number of what we call mis-repairs."
According to Dr Aldridge, the current international safety standards are over 50 years old and obsolete.
Meanwhile, a new study into the risks associated with using mobile phones has found an increased risk of brain tumours in people who have used them for 10 years or more.
The study, by German researchers, found an increased risk of glioma, an often deadly brain cancer, in people who had used mobile phones for over a decade.
However, a similar study in Britain appears to contradict these findings and concludes that there is no proof that long-term mobile phone use can cause glioma.
Both studies are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by mobile phones.
The German study, conducted by Joachim Schu[e]z and colleagues at the University of Mainz, compared a group of 749 brain tumour patients with 1,494 similar people who had not used mobile phones and found a doubling of the risk of glioma after 10 years of use.
They said the number of people in the study who had used the phones for 10 years was small and the findings need to be confirmed by other studies.
This same 10-year threshold has previously been reported for acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour of the acoustic nerve, by two Swedish teams.
"This result is very difficult to interpret," said Dr Schu[e]z.
"I can only say that it's still an open question whether there is a tumour risk for more than 10 years of use."
The British researchers found no overall increased risk in people who used mobile phones.
Although it revealed a significantly increased risk for tumours that developed on the same side of the head where patients said they most often held the phone, lead researcher Patricia McKinney, an epidemiologist at the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, said that the finding probably was due to many patients not accurately recalling which ear they had used most.
The Swedish study, conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumour called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of mobile phone use.
Mobile phones: Do's and don'ts
Keep mobile phone conversations short.
Consider using a text message or picture message as an alternative.
Choose a handset with a lower SAR rating, which means it emits less radiation.
Don't hold the phone to your head when you can use a hands-free kit.
Consider using a phone with an external aerial.
Limit the amount of time that children use mobile phones.
http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2006/02/09/story615930334.asp
Informant: Iris Atzmon
ONE of the world's leading experts in mobile phone technology has warned that the radiation output from Irish phone masts is at least 100 times too high for safety.
His warning comes as new research reveals that long-term use of mobile phones poses an increased risk of brain cancer.
According to Dr David Aldridge, a scientist who has worked developing microwave technology for the US Government, the international 'safety' limits which Ireland adheres to are out of date and totally flawed.
"What is happening is that the external signals (from mobile phones) are swamping the body's natural internal signals," he said.
This can lead to cancers and a whole range of other serious medical disorders, particularly among children, he said.
"Expose a cell to microwaves from a mast or phone and it interferes with the cell repair process. In the case of young children, the rate of cells dividing in half to form new ones is so fast that you end up with a vast number of what we call mis-repairs."
According to Dr Aldridge, the current international safety standards are over 50 years old and obsolete.
Meanwhile, a new study into the risks associated with using mobile phones has found an increased risk of brain tumours in people who have used them for 10 years or more.
The study, by German researchers, found an increased risk of glioma, an often deadly brain cancer, in people who had used mobile phones for over a decade.
However, a similar study in Britain appears to contradict these findings and concludes that there is no proof that long-term mobile phone use can cause glioma.
Both studies are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by mobile phones.
The German study, conducted by Joachim Schu[e]z and colleagues at the University of Mainz, compared a group of 749 brain tumour patients with 1,494 similar people who had not used mobile phones and found a doubling of the risk of glioma after 10 years of use.
They said the number of people in the study who had used the phones for 10 years was small and the findings need to be confirmed by other studies.
This same 10-year threshold has previously been reported for acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour of the acoustic nerve, by two Swedish teams.
"This result is very difficult to interpret," said Dr Schu[e]z.
"I can only say that it's still an open question whether there is a tumour risk for more than 10 years of use."
The British researchers found no overall increased risk in people who used mobile phones.
Although it revealed a significantly increased risk for tumours that developed on the same side of the head where patients said they most often held the phone, lead researcher Patricia McKinney, an epidemiologist at the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, said that the finding probably was due to many patients not accurately recalling which ear they had used most.
The Swedish study, conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumour called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of mobile phone use.
Mobile phones: Do's and don'ts
Keep mobile phone conversations short.
Consider using a text message or picture message as an alternative.
Choose a handset with a lower SAR rating, which means it emits less radiation.
Don't hold the phone to your head when you can use a hands-free kit.
Consider using a phone with an external aerial.
Limit the amount of time that children use mobile phones.
http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2006/02/09/story615930334.asp
Informant: Iris Atzmon
Starmail - 9. Feb, 12:55
Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma
Conflict of interest in funding the Interphone Studies
Commentary, American Journal of Epidemiology:
Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma (Interphone Study Group, Germany)
Schu[e]z et al., American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published January 27, 2006
This study, similar to all Interphone studies published to date, has several serious problems. For one, its core findings report no risk for glioma or for meningioma from “regular” cellphone use (”regular” use is defined as at least one incoming or outgoing call per week for 6 months or more). Yet, it reports a 2.2-fold risk of glioma after more than 10 years of cellphone use with a 94% confidence that this risk is not due to chance. Also, it found a 1.96-fold risk of high-grade glioma for women from “regular” cellphone use with a 98% confidence. Given the specific problems of the studyæall of which would underestimate the risk of a brain tumoræthese findings are ominous.
Here is a list of the main problems in this study:
1. The definition of unexposed cases and controls included subjects exposed to cordless phones. Previous studies have shown that cordless phone use increases the risk of glioma [1] and meningioma. [2] Including exposed subjects in the unexposed group will cause an underestimation of risk.
2. The definition of a “regular” cellphone user is so minimal that almost all “regular” cellphone users would not be expected to be at risk, even if cellphone use is found to create a very high risk of glioma and meningioma.
As mentioned earlier, regular use as defined by all Interphone studies, is “at least one incoming or outgoing call per week for 6 months or more.” As to longer periods of “regular” cellphone use, this study reported only 14% of the glioma cases and 6% of meningioma cases used a cellphone for 5 years or more; for 10 years or more, the percentages are 3% and 1%, respectively.
To understand that “regular” cellphone use as defined in this study is so minimal that risk ought not to be expected, even if there is a high risk of glioma and meningioma from cellphone use, consider a hypothetical study of smokers and the risk of lung cancer. Would a risk of lung cancer (which is a high risk for smokers) be expected to be found for smokers who had smoked once a week, for 6 months or more with only 12 subjects (3%) smoking for 10 years or more?
3. There is a strong possibility of selection bias. Some 30.5% of controls refused to participate in the study compared to only 4.8% of glioma cases and 4.9% of meningioma cases. If a higher proportion of controls who participate (compared to controls who refused participatio) used a cellphone, then any risk would be underestimated. This result (an underestimated ris) seems to be at play in this study.
Some 58% of controls who refused to participate answered a question whether or not they used a cellphone. These groups of non-participating control (one of both sexes between the ages of 40 and 59 years of age, and another of men between 30 and 39 years of age) provided confirmation that a selection bias problem indeed existed in this study. That is, these non-participating control groups used cellphones less frequently than did the participating control group.
[There were two small exceptions to this selection bias: Controls between 60 and 69 years who refused to participate, and those that did participate, reported a common amount of cellphone use and so did not contribute, one way or the other, to selection bias. This group represents roughly 15% of the total controls. The only non-participating controls that reported higher use of cellphones compared to participating controls were females 30-39 years of age. This would have caused an overestimation of risk among a very small proportion (about 8%) of all the controls.]
4. Substantial funding of this, and all Interphone studies, comes from the cellphone industry with a resultant, but undeclared, conflict-of-interest. Though the study reports that this funding “was governed by agreements that guaranteed complete scientific independence” it seems doubtful that this “guaranteed” “scientific independence” is possible. Researchers’ careers are dependent on receiving research grants. Even with isolation of funding for a specific study from the researchers themselves, the conflict-of-interest in such funding is not resolved. Because the researchers know where the funding has come from, the old adage, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” becomes the effective psychological reality (whether conscious or unconscious).
Friedman and Richter explored this concern by reviewing the conflict-of-interest problems found in studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association during 2001. The paper found a strong association between those studies whose authors had an economic conflict of interest and, as well, reported positive findings (P <0.001, equivalent of greater than a 99.9% confidence). [3]
In the case of cellphone studies, could the findings of these industry-funded studies have a correlation with findings of no harm from cellphone use? It is interesting to note that the Interphone studies, all receiving substantial cellphone industry funding, consistently put forth press releases highlighting the “no risk” findings from cellphone use. But the Hardell et al. studies (all independently funded) consistently are finding a greater and greater risk from cellphone use with each new study they publish.
References:
1. Hardell et al., Case–control study of the association between the use of cellular and cordless telephones and malignant brain tumors diagnosed during 2000–2003; Environ Res. 2006 Feb;100(2):232-41.
2. Hardell et al., Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk of benign brain tumors diagnosed during 1997-2003; International Journal of Oncology 28: 508-518, 2006.
3. Friedman and Richter, Relationship between conflicts of interest and research results; J Gen Intern Med. 2004 Jan;19(1):51-6.
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=380
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Limitations of the Interphone study: Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2279060/
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http://tinyurl.com/8ketl
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Schuez
Commentary, American Journal of Epidemiology:
Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma (Interphone Study Group, Germany)
Schu[e]z et al., American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published January 27, 2006
This study, similar to all Interphone studies published to date, has several serious problems. For one, its core findings report no risk for glioma or for meningioma from “regular” cellphone use (”regular” use is defined as at least one incoming or outgoing call per week for 6 months or more). Yet, it reports a 2.2-fold risk of glioma after more than 10 years of cellphone use with a 94% confidence that this risk is not due to chance. Also, it found a 1.96-fold risk of high-grade glioma for women from “regular” cellphone use with a 98% confidence. Given the specific problems of the studyæall of which would underestimate the risk of a brain tumoræthese findings are ominous.
Here is a list of the main problems in this study:
1. The definition of unexposed cases and controls included subjects exposed to cordless phones. Previous studies have shown that cordless phone use increases the risk of glioma [1] and meningioma. [2] Including exposed subjects in the unexposed group will cause an underestimation of risk.
2. The definition of a “regular” cellphone user is so minimal that almost all “regular” cellphone users would not be expected to be at risk, even if cellphone use is found to create a very high risk of glioma and meningioma.
As mentioned earlier, regular use as defined by all Interphone studies, is “at least one incoming or outgoing call per week for 6 months or more.” As to longer periods of “regular” cellphone use, this study reported only 14% of the glioma cases and 6% of meningioma cases used a cellphone for 5 years or more; for 10 years or more, the percentages are 3% and 1%, respectively.
To understand that “regular” cellphone use as defined in this study is so minimal that risk ought not to be expected, even if there is a high risk of glioma and meningioma from cellphone use, consider a hypothetical study of smokers and the risk of lung cancer. Would a risk of lung cancer (which is a high risk for smokers) be expected to be found for smokers who had smoked once a week, for 6 months or more with only 12 subjects (3%) smoking for 10 years or more?
3. There is a strong possibility of selection bias. Some 30.5% of controls refused to participate in the study compared to only 4.8% of glioma cases and 4.9% of meningioma cases. If a higher proportion of controls who participate (compared to controls who refused participatio) used a cellphone, then any risk would be underestimated. This result (an underestimated ris) seems to be at play in this study.
Some 58% of controls who refused to participate answered a question whether or not they used a cellphone. These groups of non-participating control (one of both sexes between the ages of 40 and 59 years of age, and another of men between 30 and 39 years of age) provided confirmation that a selection bias problem indeed existed in this study. That is, these non-participating control groups used cellphones less frequently than did the participating control group.
[There were two small exceptions to this selection bias: Controls between 60 and 69 years who refused to participate, and those that did participate, reported a common amount of cellphone use and so did not contribute, one way or the other, to selection bias. This group represents roughly 15% of the total controls. The only non-participating controls that reported higher use of cellphones compared to participating controls were females 30-39 years of age. This would have caused an overestimation of risk among a very small proportion (about 8%) of all the controls.]
4. Substantial funding of this, and all Interphone studies, comes from the cellphone industry with a resultant, but undeclared, conflict-of-interest. Though the study reports that this funding “was governed by agreements that guaranteed complete scientific independence” it seems doubtful that this “guaranteed” “scientific independence” is possible. Researchers’ careers are dependent on receiving research grants. Even with isolation of funding for a specific study from the researchers themselves, the conflict-of-interest in such funding is not resolved. Because the researchers know where the funding has come from, the old adage, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” becomes the effective psychological reality (whether conscious or unconscious).
Friedman and Richter explored this concern by reviewing the conflict-of-interest problems found in studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association during 2001. The paper found a strong association between those studies whose authors had an economic conflict of interest and, as well, reported positive findings (P <0.001, equivalent of greater than a 99.9% confidence). [3]
In the case of cellphone studies, could the findings of these industry-funded studies have a correlation with findings of no harm from cellphone use? It is interesting to note that the Interphone studies, all receiving substantial cellphone industry funding, consistently put forth press releases highlighting the “no risk” findings from cellphone use. But the Hardell et al. studies (all independently funded) consistently are finding a greater and greater risk from cellphone use with each new study they publish.
References:
1. Hardell et al., Case–control study of the association between the use of cellular and cordless telephones and malignant brain tumors diagnosed during 2000–2003; Environ Res. 2006 Feb;100(2):232-41.
2. Hardell et al., Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk of benign brain tumors diagnosed during 1997-2003; International Journal of Oncology 28: 508-518, 2006.
3. Friedman and Richter, Relationship between conflicts of interest and research results; J Gen Intern Med. 2004 Jan;19(1):51-6.
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=380
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Limitations of the Interphone study: Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2279060/
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http://tinyurl.com/8ketl
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Schuez
Starmail - 9. Feb, 12:43
SEVEN YEARS TO SAVE PLANET, SAYS PM Tony Blair
Starmail - 9. Feb, 10:33
ENRON, CHENEY, 9/11, LIVE HIJACKERS, & DEAD MICROBIOLOGISTS
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd162.htm
Knowledge Filtration (and Dead Microbiologists)
http://tinyurl.com/efj3n
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=MICROBIOLOGISTS
Knowledge Filtration (and Dead Microbiologists)
http://tinyurl.com/efj3n
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=MICROBIOLOGISTS
Starmail - 9. Feb, 10:29
BELASTUNG DURCH HANDY-STRAHLUNG
08.02.2006
Ärztin stellt fest: Schauenstein ist kein Einzelfall
Bei der Sitzung des Schauensteiner Stadtrates erhielt auch Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam das Rederecht. Die Bamberger Ärztin hatte bereits bei der Demonstration am 20. Januar vor den gesundheitlichen Gefahren gepulster elektromagnetischer Hochfrequenz-Strahlung gewarnt, die von Mobilfunk-Sendern, Handys sowie schnurlosen Telefonen nach DECT-Standard ausgehen.
SCHAUENSTEIN – Die engagierte Ärztin hatte am Montag unmittelbar vor der Stadtratssitzung mehrere Anwohner in der Umgebung des Schauensteiner Mobilfunk-Senders besucht, die Strahlungsbelastung gemessen und die Daten mit Angaben der Betroffenen über Beschwerden in ein Register aufgenommen.
Wie Waldmann-Selsam dem Stadtrat berichtete, verfügt sie über ein gutes Messgerät, mit dem sie in Schauenstein hohe Belastungen festgestellt hat. In der Blumenstraße seien es an etlichen Stellen mehrere 1000 Mikrowatt pro Quadratmeter gewesen. Auf einer Terrasse habe sie bis zu 5000 Mikrowatt festgestellt, in den Häusern und der Schule mehrere hundert Mikrowatt. Im Falle der Schule vermutet die Ärztin ein Zusammenwirken mit dem Radar vom Döbraberg. Bei erneuten Messungen in der Schule habe sich gezeigt, dass die neuen Abschirmgardinen in einem der Klassenzimmer (wir berichteten) eine Reduzierung der Werte auf die Hälfte, teilweise bis auf ein Drittel bewirken.
Angesichts der hohen Messwerte im Wohngebiet zeigte sich Waldmann-Selsam äußerst besorgt. Wie sie im Stadtrat berichtete, stellen sich nach ihren Erfahrungen bereits bei Belastungen ab zehn Mikrowatt die ersten Symptome ein. Bei Werten ab 100 Mikrowatt seien viele Leute betroffen.
Die Bamberger Ärztin machte aber auch deutlich, dass Schauenstein kein Einzelfall ist. In den vergangenen zwei Jahren habe sie an 170 Standorten von Mobilfunk-Sendern zirka 1000 Leute in ihren Wohnungen und an ihren Arbeitsplätzen besucht.
Schlafstörungen
Bei den Messungen habe sie festgestellt, dass oft Nachbarn oder Arbeitskollegen unabhängig voneinander an den gleichen Symptomen litten. Waldmann-Selsam nannte Schlafstörungen, Depressionen, Aggressionen, Veränderungen des Blutbildes sowie Herzrhythmusstörungen. An den Arbeitsplätzen würden viele über Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten klagen. „Die Leute können ihre Arbeit nicht mehr machen“, sagte die Ärztin.
Waldmann-Selsam zeigte sich entsetzt darüber, dass in Deutschland bislang noch nie Anwohner von Mobilfunk-Sendern von behördlicher Seite untersucht worden seien. „Wir Ärzte haben bis vor zwei Jahren nichts davon gewusst“, versicherte sie. Man habe bis dahin stets den offiziellen Verlautbarungen geglaubt, dass von den Sendern keine Gesundheitsgefahren ausgehen würden. Deshalb hätten die Ärzte bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt bei den Patienten-Untersuchungen nicht nach Sendern oder schnurlosen Telefonen gefragt.
„Das sind schwere Verdachtsmomente“, lautete das Resümee von Waldmann-Selsam, die auf die Ärzte-Initiativen in Hof, Naila, Coburg, Lichtenfels und Bamberg hinwies. Angesichts der massiven Krankheitshäufungen in Schauenstein müsse der Bau weiterer Sender am bestehenden Standort verhindert werden. „Hier ist Gefahr in Verzug“, betonte die Ärztin.
Zur Klärung der Ursache für die Beschwerden fordert Waldmann-Selsam auch das Abschalten der bestehenden Anlagen und eine anschließende ärztliche Verlaufsbeobachtung bei den Betroffenen. Dies sollte nach ihren Vorstellungen gleichzeitig in Schauenstein und einigen anderen oberfränkischen Kommunen geschehen, um Vergleiche ziehen zu können. Dazu schlug sie die Gemeinde Michelau im Kreis Lichtenfels vor, in der es um einen Mobilfunk-Sender ähnliche Probleme gebe. Waldmann-Selsam bot an, den Kontakt zwischen den Kommunalpolitikern herzustellen. W.R.
http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/frankenwald/resyart.phtm?id=918403
Nachricht von den Mobilfunkkritikern Rhein-Haard
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Waldmann-Selsam
Ärztin stellt fest: Schauenstein ist kein Einzelfall
Bei der Sitzung des Schauensteiner Stadtrates erhielt auch Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam das Rederecht. Die Bamberger Ärztin hatte bereits bei der Demonstration am 20. Januar vor den gesundheitlichen Gefahren gepulster elektromagnetischer Hochfrequenz-Strahlung gewarnt, die von Mobilfunk-Sendern, Handys sowie schnurlosen Telefonen nach DECT-Standard ausgehen.
SCHAUENSTEIN – Die engagierte Ärztin hatte am Montag unmittelbar vor der Stadtratssitzung mehrere Anwohner in der Umgebung des Schauensteiner Mobilfunk-Senders besucht, die Strahlungsbelastung gemessen und die Daten mit Angaben der Betroffenen über Beschwerden in ein Register aufgenommen.
Wie Waldmann-Selsam dem Stadtrat berichtete, verfügt sie über ein gutes Messgerät, mit dem sie in Schauenstein hohe Belastungen festgestellt hat. In der Blumenstraße seien es an etlichen Stellen mehrere 1000 Mikrowatt pro Quadratmeter gewesen. Auf einer Terrasse habe sie bis zu 5000 Mikrowatt festgestellt, in den Häusern und der Schule mehrere hundert Mikrowatt. Im Falle der Schule vermutet die Ärztin ein Zusammenwirken mit dem Radar vom Döbraberg. Bei erneuten Messungen in der Schule habe sich gezeigt, dass die neuen Abschirmgardinen in einem der Klassenzimmer (wir berichteten) eine Reduzierung der Werte auf die Hälfte, teilweise bis auf ein Drittel bewirken.
Angesichts der hohen Messwerte im Wohngebiet zeigte sich Waldmann-Selsam äußerst besorgt. Wie sie im Stadtrat berichtete, stellen sich nach ihren Erfahrungen bereits bei Belastungen ab zehn Mikrowatt die ersten Symptome ein. Bei Werten ab 100 Mikrowatt seien viele Leute betroffen.
Die Bamberger Ärztin machte aber auch deutlich, dass Schauenstein kein Einzelfall ist. In den vergangenen zwei Jahren habe sie an 170 Standorten von Mobilfunk-Sendern zirka 1000 Leute in ihren Wohnungen und an ihren Arbeitsplätzen besucht.
Schlafstörungen
Bei den Messungen habe sie festgestellt, dass oft Nachbarn oder Arbeitskollegen unabhängig voneinander an den gleichen Symptomen litten. Waldmann-Selsam nannte Schlafstörungen, Depressionen, Aggressionen, Veränderungen des Blutbildes sowie Herzrhythmusstörungen. An den Arbeitsplätzen würden viele über Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten klagen. „Die Leute können ihre Arbeit nicht mehr machen“, sagte die Ärztin.
Waldmann-Selsam zeigte sich entsetzt darüber, dass in Deutschland bislang noch nie Anwohner von Mobilfunk-Sendern von behördlicher Seite untersucht worden seien. „Wir Ärzte haben bis vor zwei Jahren nichts davon gewusst“, versicherte sie. Man habe bis dahin stets den offiziellen Verlautbarungen geglaubt, dass von den Sendern keine Gesundheitsgefahren ausgehen würden. Deshalb hätten die Ärzte bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt bei den Patienten-Untersuchungen nicht nach Sendern oder schnurlosen Telefonen gefragt.
„Das sind schwere Verdachtsmomente“, lautete das Resümee von Waldmann-Selsam, die auf die Ärzte-Initiativen in Hof, Naila, Coburg, Lichtenfels und Bamberg hinwies. Angesichts der massiven Krankheitshäufungen in Schauenstein müsse der Bau weiterer Sender am bestehenden Standort verhindert werden. „Hier ist Gefahr in Verzug“, betonte die Ärztin.
Zur Klärung der Ursache für die Beschwerden fordert Waldmann-Selsam auch das Abschalten der bestehenden Anlagen und eine anschließende ärztliche Verlaufsbeobachtung bei den Betroffenen. Dies sollte nach ihren Vorstellungen gleichzeitig in Schauenstein und einigen anderen oberfränkischen Kommunen geschehen, um Vergleiche ziehen zu können. Dazu schlug sie die Gemeinde Michelau im Kreis Lichtenfels vor, in der es um einen Mobilfunk-Sender ähnliche Probleme gebe. Waldmann-Selsam bot an, den Kontakt zwischen den Kommunalpolitikern herzustellen. W.R.
http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/frankenwald/resyart.phtm?id=918403
Nachricht von den Mobilfunkkritikern Rhein-Haard
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Waldmann-Selsam
Starmail - 9. Feb, 09:50
