9
Jun
2007

Protesters concerned about the 3G mast proposed for Westdene

My latest letter to the widely distributed Kemptown Rag (Every door in Brighton's huge Kemptown area) published yesterday - http://www.kemptownrag.co.uk

Gary


Protesters concerned about the 3G mast proposed for Westdene (Argus, May 28) should be far more concerned about the health effects than the visual impact.

Having taken £22 billion from the Telecom companies in exchange for 80% area coverage of the UK for 3G, the Government is hardly likely to admit this.

The 2004 financially independent Naila study (Germany) [ http://omega.twoday.net/stories/398279/ ] by five medical doctors, studied almost 1000 people to assess health risks from 2G (conventional) phone masts. Over a ten year period, they found a tripling of new cancer cases, in people on average eight years younger, amongst people living within 400 metres of the mast, compared to those living between 400 and 800 metres away.

3G requires many more transmitters at much higher power outputs than 2G.

In 2003 the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research [ http://omega.twoday.net/stories/726689/ and http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2126709/ ] found significant negative effects including headaches, muscle fatigue/pain and dizziness from 3G mast emissions at less than 1/25000th of accepted (ICNIRP) safety guidelines, occurring within days of exposure to the radiation.

These studies are summarised in "Five studies showing ill-health effects from masts" (2005) by Dr Grahame Blackwell [ http://omega.twoday.net/stories/859473/ ], who was involved at a high level in a major EU-funded mobile phone research & development project in the 1990s. He wrote "there are no known studies relating to health effects of masts that do not show such ill-health effects".

In "On the Precautionary Approach and the Stewart & NRPB reports" [ http://omega.twoday.net/stories/708325/ ], Blackwell demolishes the ICNIRP safety guidelines for phone masts, which are based on the recommendations of Mike Repacholi of the World Health Organisation's Radiation Health Protection Committee [ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Repacholi ] who recently resigned following revelations of pro industry bias and receipt of $150,000 pa in expenses from the Telecoms industry. See http://www.starweave.com .

Since simultaneous calls to masts are recorded and requests issued for extra masts above a certain number, if people do not want masts, then the answer is obvious.

Or are people happy to also risk brain tumours [ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=brain+tumours ] - " A probability rather than a possibility" in intensive mobile users according to Professor Leif Salford of Sweden's University of Lund [ http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Salford ] who conducted a study of 1600 mobile users?


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

Omega-News Collection 9. June 2007

Greenland Ice Melt Speeds Up; Warming Trend is Confirmed via Satellite
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3799177/

Global warming 'is three times faster than worst predictions'
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3797544/

Thunder? It's the Sound of Greenland Melting
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3811111/

Melting Ice Will Affect Hundreds of Millions Globally
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3807740/

Forests in the front line of climate change
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3802664/

Nearly 100 million trees get used for junk mail every year in the U.S.
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3799305/

2006: SECOND MOST EXTREME WEATHER EVER
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3807816/

UN Urges Protection of Animals From Climate Change
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3803934/

USA
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Vote+USA+2004/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/USA/

Iraq War
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Irak-Krieg/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Iraq+War+-+Irak+Krieg/

Is Iran next?
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/

RFID
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/RFID/

EMF-Omega-News 9. June 2007
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3818030/

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Brain interactions with RF/microwave fields generated by mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3810531/

Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and Health Risk: A Scientific Perspective
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3812937/

Residential exposure to electric power transmission lines and risk of lymphoproliferative and myeloproliferative disorders
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3810664/

In Memoriam: Rose Smith
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3796225/

The Radiation Blob, Indeed
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3796260/

Ben "Bad Science" Goldacre's claims
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Can radiation from cell towers and power lines hurt us?
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The new smog that is jeopardising the health of us all
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3801468/

Health dangers caused by electro magnetic radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3799163/

Worried families ditch their Wi-Fi after watchdog voices health concerns
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3797653/

Radiation Is Killing the Bees Despite the Cell Phone Industry's Disinformation Campaign
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3803382/

Investigation of Brain Potentials in Sleeping Humans Exposed to the Electromagnetic Field of Mobile Phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3812105/

Mobile phone headache: a double blind, sham-controlled provocation study
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3815723/

25th International Symposium: On Man and His Environment on Health and Disease
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3800784/

Address The Issue, Or Not?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3807423/

The Independent and Geoffrey Lean need our help
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3809352/

No to phone mast plan
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3794325/

Row over 'phone mast chimneys'
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3794345/

Residents' joy as phone mast plan is pulled
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3797665/

Inspector hangs up on phone mast bid
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3800248/

Phone firm in mast bid
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3802545/

Phone mast protest picket planned
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3807628/

Anger over missing mast protest
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3807651/

Jade battles O2 over phone mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3809558/

Fears that children are getting damaged by radiation: environmentalists want to ban wireless networks
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3812004/

Families' heath worries over mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3812147/

Mast plan is before council
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3812843/

Protests planned over church mast bid
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3815760/

Laptops are crippling millions with back problems
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3802583/

News from Mast Sanity
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Omega-News Collection 9. June 2007
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3818035/

8
Jun
2007

Mobile phone headache: a double blind, sham-controlled provocation study

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2982.2007.01336.x

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New Study by Oftedahl on Mobile Phones

Comment on Oftedahl et al.

The recently published study by Oftedahl et al. (Cephalalgia, 2007, 27, 447-455) addressing headaches, head pain and physiologic parameters is important but not for the reasons put forth by the authors. The study indeed gave no evidence that RF fields in the experimental set-up used cause head pain or discomfort or influenced physiological parameters. And that finding is exactly what one would expect given the study design.

The authors were correct in identifying that all electromagnetic fields are not the same in terms of exposure and biological mechanism of harm. Correctly, they separated the effect of ELF – with biological damage done through the direct influence of the predominant magnetic field in that EMR window – and the effect of raw, modulated RF where health impacts are mediated through heating of biological tissue. What was not considered in the study was the mechanistic effect of the Information Carrying Radio Waves (ICRW) that we know to be the predominant danger in mobile phone, WiFi and phone mast exposures. Tissue heating is not the mechanism for these exposures so the study design in that regard was incorrect with respect to identifying mobile phone use as the parameter under study. However, because the investigators left out the most important purveyor of the health effects – ICRW – they provided a strong validation for the ICRW biological mechanism: The study was carefully designed as a double-blind, sham controlled experiment to lessen the potential for bias in the assessing subjective symptoms. The open provocation step used to identify subjects with symptoms similar to those the subject reported on the pre-study questionnaire indeed suggests a nocebo or negative placebo effect among the participants at the outset, but the double-blind design served to eliminate that effect in the conduct of the study itself.

Subjects were recruited through newspaper ads and 42 people filled out questionnaires related to their mobile phone use and symptoms. It is noteworthy that the symptoms reported by the subjects in the questionnaires – and carefully validated through follow-up phone interviews with nurses – were indeed associated with ICRW because the symptoms occurred when the subjects were actually talking on the mobile phone. Only when there is talking or data transmission are the ICRWs present. This important exposure system finding was determined in work I oversaw in the $28.5 million WTR program funded by the mobile phone industry in the 1990s. Thus, the double-blind study conducted with the 17 subjects who agreed to go forward provided a comparison of symptoms present when ICRW exposures occur and symptoms present when only raw, modulated RF signals are the exposure – as in the exposure system employed by Oftedahl and her colleagues.

The findings are remarkable because with the raw, modulated RF, there is no distinction identifiable between symptoms occurring when there was a perceived exposure to RF and where there was actual exposure to RF. This is what would be expected because without ICRW, there is no information signal to provoke the cell membrane response that we now know is involved in the cascade of biological effects leading to the symptoms we are now cataloguing in the Safe Wireless Initiative health effects registry and reported in numerous published studies. Thus, the study shows that without ICRW, there are no adverse effects -- a validation of the ICRW mechanism of harm.

Dr. George L. Carlo
Science and Public Policy Institute
1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW -- 7th Floor Washington, D.C. 20004 http://www.sppionline.org
http://www.safewireless.org
202-756-7744

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Norwegian Study fails to find a link between Mobile Phones and Headaches

We have now published a response to the Norwegian Mobile Phone Headache paper:

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20070607_mobile_phone_headache.asp


Alasdair


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Carlo
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=ICRW

Residents fear cancer cluster in Sayreville

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3716868/

State expands health study in Sayreville
http://suburban.gmnews.com/news/2007/0913/Front_Page/026.html

Sayreville officials always game for a hearty debate
http://suburban.gmnews.com/news/2007/0913/Editorials/035.html



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