Microwave News zu “Radiation Research” und der Kult um negative Studienergebnisse

Von Louis Slesin, Herausgeber der Microwave News:

Die Zeitschrift “Radiation Research” ist in einigen EMF-Kreisen als das Magazin der negativen Ergebnisse bekannt. Selbst die Herausgeber scheinen empfindlich gegenüber der Tatsache zu sein, dass sie fast ausschließlich Arbeiten veröffentlichen, die zeigen, dass extrem niederfrequente Felder und Hochfrequenz/Mikrowellen-Strahlung keine biologischen Effekte haben. In der Juni-Ausgabe offerieren uns drei der Herausgeber, unter ihnen John Moulder, in einem Editorial unter dem Titel "Publishing Negative Results" eine Erklärung. Dies hat uns veranlasst, genauer hinzusehen. Mit der Hilfe von Henri Lai von der Washington-Universität in Seattle haben wir eine Teilmenge von gesundheitlichen Studien zur Strahlung zusammengestellt - diejenigen zu den Effekten von Mikrowellenstrahlung auf die DNA. Wir haben herausgefunden, dass anders als Radiation Research viele andere peer-reviewed Zeitschriften kein Problem hatten, qualitativ hochwertige Arbeiten zu finden, die genotoxische Effekte aufzeigen...

Weiter unter: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=529

Den Artikel in den Microwave News finden Sie unter:
http://www.microwavenews.com/RR.html


Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 29.06.2006

Der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V. (FGF), gehören alle deutschen Mobilfunkbetreiber an.

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“Radiation Research” and The Cult of Negative Studies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2461957/

Int J Radiat Biol. 2006 Jun;82(6):443-50.

Krause CM, Bjornberg CH, Pesonen M, Hulten A, Liesivuori T, Koivisto M, Revonsuo A, Laine M, Hamalainen H.

Cognitive Science Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.

Purpose: To assess the effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) emitted by mobile phones (MP) on the 1 - 20 Hz event-related brain oscillatory EEG (electroencephalogram) responses in children performing an auditory memory task (encoding and recognition).

Materials and methods: EEG data were gathered while 15 subjects (age 10 - 14 years) performed an auditory memory task both with and without exposure to a digital 902 MHz MP in counterbalanced order.

Results: During memory encoding, the active MP modulated the event-related desynchronization/synchronization (ERD/ERS) responses in the approximately 4 - 8 Hz EEG frequencies. During recognition, the active MP transformed these brain oscillatory responses in the approximately 4 - 8 Hz and approximately 15 Hz frequencies.

Conclusions: The current findings suggest that EMF emitted by mobile phones has effects on brain oscillatory responses during cognitive processing in children.

PMID: 16846979 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16846979&dopt=Abstract

I have got some health statistics from the Danish NHS. That start in 1994 (the year the mobile was introduced there). They show: General pollution: down, Fertilizers used in farming: Down. Illnesses Up, and I mean UP. Drug use: Up.

I am working a translation of it, but the curves talk their own language.

I have kept it in Word, because you can enlarge the pictures by pulling it up in one corner

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_danish_development_of_illnesses_since_the_introduction_of_mobile_phones_in_1994.doc .

The stats are collected by my son Henrik who lives in Copenhagen and the Document is put together by the biggest Danish Anti Mast resistance org “Vores Børns fremtid” (Our Children’s Future).


Best regards.

Agnes

Alan Preece carried out an exercise using postcodes in relation to powerline fields, and published it at a BEMS meeting a year or so ago.

On another matter, I see that Eva Markova et al (2005) from Stockholm University and the Karolinska were able to demonstrate in vitro that GSM frequencies coiuld induce apoptosis in cells (human lymphocytes). This important study appeared in the prestigious Environmental Health Perspectives, but dont think either the media or the protest groups noticed it. So far it hasnt been replicated, but if anyone has £16,000 to spare we could do that at this lab.

Omega see "Microwaves from GSM Mobile Telephones Affect 53BP1 and gamma-H2AX Foci in Human Lymphocytes from Hypersensitive and Healthy Persons" under: http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/7561/7561.html

Best

Roger Coghill MA (Cantab) C Biol MI Biol MA (Environ Mgt)


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

Zur Verharmlosung der gesundheitsrelevanten Wirkung von hochfrequenten Radio- und Mikrowellenstrahlungen (einschließlich des Mobiltelefonsystems) auf die funktionellen und körperlichen Prozesse des Menschen
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/gesundheit/000000980c0b92502/000000980d0a4900e/000000980d0af981b.html



Prof. Hecht: frequentia-Publikation von Prof. Silny ist irreführend
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/gesundheit/024be29753144c205/024be297aa104840c/024be296e107c0b01.html



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Silny

Das wichtigste Zitat aus dem Spiegel-Artikel: "Wissenschaftler der ETH in Zürich haben sogar herausgefunden, dass bestimmte Bakterien durch den Einfluss des Niederfrequenzfeldes, das von einer Handy-Batterie erzeugt wird, eine leicht höhere Sterblichkeit aufweisen - was aber leider als Hinweis auf eine mögliche Gefährdung des Nutzers durch die gleichen Frequenzen zu verstehen ist."

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/telefonkultur/0,1518,430012,00.html

Schöne Grüße

Claudia Weiand
BUND-Königstein

HLV INFO 84/AT

2-08-2006

diagnose-funk
Tobeleggweg 24
8049 Zürich

1-08-06

Hecht-Doku. zur Anhörung im Bay. Landtag

Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006, 02:00:00

Dokumentation zum Vortrag von Prof. em. Prof. Dr. med. habil. Karl Hecht anlässlich der Anhörung im Bayerischen Landtag zur Thematik: "Mobilfunk / Elektrosmog / Gesundheit" am 07.07.2006 Berlin ...

http://www.kombas.ch/downloads/hechtbayerischerlandtag.pdf

Auszug aus dem Vortrag:

“7.2 Die Wahrheit ist keine Panikmache

Diejenigen, die den Warnern vor gesundheitlichen Schäden durch EMF-Strahlung vorwerfen, „ein Spiel der Angst“ zu betreiben, handeln meines Erachtens verantwortungslos, weil sie wissenschaftlich fundierte Ergebnisse verschweigen und Leben und Gesundheit der Menschen nicht achten. Wo ehrlich und wissenschaftlich fundiert aufgeklärt wird, Vorsorgemaßnahmen getroffen werden und ein realer Schutz der Bevölkerung vor den schädlichen Einwirkungen geboten wird, einschließlich regelmäßiger Gesundheitskontrollen, breitet sich keine Angst aus.“

Prof. Dr. Karl Hecht
http://tinyurl.com/zsv2u

Dear Colleagues:

"Radiation Research" is known in some EMF circles as the journal of negative results. Even its editors appear to be sensitive about the fact that they almost only publish papers which show that extremely-low-frequency fields and RF/microwave radiation have no biological effects. In its June issue, three of the editors, including John Moulder, offer us an explanation in an editorial titled "Publishing Negative Results."

This prompted us to take a closer look. With the help of Henry Lai of the University of Washington in Seattle, we assembled a subset of radiation health studies --those on the effects of microwaves on DNA. We found that, unlike Radiation Research, many other peer-reviewed journal have had no trouble finding high-quality papers that do show genotoxic effects.

When we investigated who sponsored the microwave-DNA papers published in Radiation Research, we discovered that four out of five were paid for by the wireless industry --notably Motorola-- and/or the U.S. Air Force, both of which have a long history of trying to control or suppress EMF research. Indeed, industry and the USAF paid for more than 75% of all the negative genotox studies, that is those published in all the various journals.

What goes unmentioned in the Radiation Research editorial is that Moulder is a long-time consultant to the power, communications and electronics industries. At a time when there are widespread concerns over the lack of disclosure of potential conflicts of interest, why does the Radiation Research Society, the publisher of Radiation Research, allow someone with such obvious conflicts to continue as the gatekeeper at one of the leading radiation journals?

Read the full Microwave News special report --simply go to our Home Page, http://www.microwavenews.com. You can also download a pdf there, but be sure to read it on a color display.
http://www.microwavenews.com/docs/mwn.7-06.RR.pdf


Best,

Louis Slesin

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The protocol for the Interphone study is published
see http://www.microwavenews.com
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/protocol_for_the_interphone_epidemiological_study.htm

The WHO needs more.....money! Anyone wants to donate to the EMF project?... see http://www.microwavenews.com

If you haven't read yet the report about Professor John Moulder http://www.microwavenews.com/RR.html it is very recommended, it details, among the rest, how much money he receives from the cellular AND power industries to represent them in courts, and at the same time how he edits Radiation Research with bias. The Journal does not disclose Moulder's clear conflict of interest. Time to react? I did, but have not received any answer so far. Maybe what Radiation Research needs is more pressure by other people.


Iris Atzmon.

Radiat Environ Biophys. 2006 Jul 19; [Epub ahead of print]

* Hoyto A, * Sihvonen AP, * Alhonen L, * Juutilainen J, * Naarala J.

Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, Kuopio, 70211, Finland, Anne.Hoyto@uku.fi.

The effects of low-level radiofrequency (RF) radiation and elevated temperature on ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity were investigated in murine L929 fibroblasts. The cells were exposed at 900 MHz either to a pulse-modulated (pulse frequency 217 Hz; GSM-type modulation) or a continuous wave signal at specific absorption rate (SAR) levels of 0.2 W kg(-1) (0.1-0.3 W kg(-1)) and 0.4 W kg(-1) (0.3-0.5 W kg(-1)) for 2, 8, or 24 h. RF radiation did not affect cellular ODC activity. However, a slight increase in temperature (0.8-0.9 degrees C) in the exposure system lead to decreased ODC activity in cell cultures. This was verified by tests in which cells were exposed to different temperatures in incubators. The results show that ODC activity is sensitive to small temperature differences in cell cultures. Hence, a precise temperature control in cellular ODC activity studies is needed.

PMID: 16850337 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16850337&itool=pubmed_DocSum

Biophys J. 2006 Aug 1;91(4):1413-23. Epub 2006 May 26.

Copty AB, Neve-Oz Y, Barak I, Golosovsky M, Davidov D.

The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

We have compared the effect of microwave irradiation and of conventional heating on the fluorescence of solution-based green fluorescent protein. A specialized near-field 8.5 GHz microwave applicator operating at 250 mW input microwave power was used. The solution temperature, the intensity, and the spectrum of the green fluorescent protein fluorescence 1), under microwave irradiation and 2), under conventional heating, were measured. In both cases the fluorescence intensity decreases and the spectrum becomes red-shifted. Although the microwave irradiation heats the solution, the microwave-induced changes in fluorescence cannot be explained by heating alone. Several possible scenarios are discussed.

PMID: 16731554 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=16731554&dopt=Abstract