Enclosed latest info from Dr John Walker:
http://www.omega-news.info/is_there_any_effect_of_mobile_telephone.doc


From: Eileen O'Connor
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:38 PM


Informant: Iris Atzmon

03.09.05

Die Österreichische Ärztekammer (ÖÄK) weist darauf hin, dass die weite Verbreitung von Technologien zur mobilen Kommunikation nicht nur Vorteile, sondern auch eine Reihe von Nachteilen mit sich bringt. Diese seien nach Ansicht der ÖÄK in Anbetracht der Tragweite für die Gesundheit des Einzelnen und der Gesellschaft noch viel zu wenig beachtet.

Die bisher vorliegenden wissenschaftlichen Daten und Beobachtungen zahlreicher medizinischer Experten zeigen auf allen naturwissenschaftlichen Nachweisebenen Schädigungen der Erbsubstanz bzw. ein erhöhtes Risiko für gewisse Tumore nach langjähriger Verwendung von analogen und digitalen Handys sowie von Schnurlostelefonen. Erstmals wurde dies auch in breit angelegten epidemiologischen Untersuchungen am Menschen und nicht nur in Zell- und Tierversuchen nachgewiesen.

Ferner zeigen erste Ergebnisse epidemiologischer Untersuchungen zu den Auswirkungen bei Handymasten und den Basisstationen von DECT-Schnurlostelefonen zum Teil deutliche Auswirkungen auf Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit. Anwohner von Handymasten leiden unter anderem vermehrt unter Schlafstörungen, Konzentrationsproblemen, Energielosigkeit und Depressionen.

Die ÖÄK rate daher für Telefonate zu Hause Schnurtelefone zu verwenden und bei Kindern grundsätzlich auf Funktelefone zu verzichten. Besonders wichtig ist daher „die Frage eines effektiven vorbeugenden Gesundheitsschutzes bei Handymasten und anderen Dauersendern. Es kann nicht sein, dass alle paar Jahre weitere Funksysteme wie GSM, DECT, UMTS, WLAN, WIMAX etc. eingeführt werden und parallel dazu Vorsorgemaßnahmen und notwendige Forschungsanstrengungen unterbleiben.“, sorgt sich der Referent für Umweltmedizin der Österreichischen Ärztekammer, Dr. Gerd Oberfeld. (iw)

http://www.tariftip.de/news/18856/archiv/Handy-Schnurlos-Co-Aerzte-warnen-vor-Langzeitfolgen.htm

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6-09-2005

HNA online 5-09-05

Die Österreichische Ärztekammer lässt sich von den Betreibern nicht einschüchtern und hat die obige neue Stellungnahme publiziert. Ich würde mir wünschen die Deutsche Ärzteschaft hätte auch diesen Mut. Aber das Abtauchen hat ja in Deutschland leider eine lange Tradition !

Dr. Claus Scheingraber 5-09-05

Lee S, Johnson D, Dunbar K, Dong H, Ge X, Kim YC, Wing C, Jayathilaka N, Emmanuel N, Zhou CQ, Gerber HL, Tseng CC, Wang SM.

Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

The biological effect of radiofrequency (RF) fields remains controversial. We address this issue by examining whether RF fields can cause changes in gene expression. We used the pulsed RF fields at a frequency of 2.45GHz that is commonly used in telecommunication to expose cultured human HL-60 cells. We used the serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) method to measure the RF effect on gene expression at the genome level. We observed that 221 genes altered their expression after a 2-h exposure. The number of affected genes increased to 759 after a 6-h exposure. Functional classification of the affected genes reveals that apoptosis-related genes were among the upregulated ones and the cell cycle genes among the downregulated ones. We observed no significant increase in the expression of heat shock genes. These results indicate that the RF fields at 2.45GHz can alter gene expression in cultured human cells through non-thermal mechanism.

PMID: 16107253 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16107253&dopt=Citation


From FGF-Infoline 02.09.2005

Study

Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells were used as an experimental model to study the effects of intermittent EMF exposures (5min on/30 minutes off). ELF-EMF exposure (2mT 50Hz with worst-case distortions for supply) to ES-derived neural cells significantly affected transcript levels of the apoptosis-related bcl-2, bax, and cell cycle regulatory "growth arrest DNA damage inducible" GADD45 genes, whereas mRNA levels of neural-specific genes were not affected. RF-EMF exposure (GSM-1800 simulated exposure at time-averaged SAR of 1.5 W/kg) of neural progenitor cells resulted in down-regulation of neural-specific Nurr1 and in up-regulation of bax and GADD45 mRNA levels. Short-term RF-EMF exposure for 6 h, but not for 48 h, resulted in a low and transient increase of DNA double-strand breaks.

Bibliographic information: Teodora Nikolova, Jaroslaw Czyz, Alexandra Rolletschek, Przemyslaw Blyszczuk, Jörg Fuchs, Gabriele Jovtchev, Jürgen Schuderer, Niels Kuster, and Anna M. Wobus, in The FASEB Journal, fj.04-3549fje, published online 22 August, 2005

http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/abstract/04-3549fjev1
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16116041&query_hl=2


From FGF-Infoline 02.09.2005

Omega auf unsere Anfrage erhielten wir folgende Mitteilung:

Bzgl. des Appells liegen mir die folgenden Zahlen vor:

36.990 Unterschriften aus dem In- und Ausland, davon mehr als 1.000 Ärzte. Diese Zahl stammt von Fr. Stöcker, die die Unterschriftenlisten der WHO übergeben hat.

Erik Petersen, IGUMED-Geschäftsstelle, Fedelhören 88, 28203 Bremen, tel 0421/498 42 51, fax 0421/498 42 52, http://www.igumed.de

Omega siehe hierzu auch „Freiburger Appell“ unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/943294/

Internationale Petition, die die Entlassung von Dr. Mike Repacholi fordert, an WHO übersandt http://omega.twoday.net/stories/975841/

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Unterschriftenübergabe des Freiburger Appell an WHO

Die Zeitschrift "Umwelt, Medizin, Gesellschaft" informiert in der Ausgabe 4/2005 über die Unterschriftenübergabe des Freiburger Appell an WHO. Nach Angaben der Initiatoren konnten ca. 36.000 Unterschriften aus ganz Europa, vor allem aber aus der Bundesrepublik, gesammelt werden.

Weitere Informationen unter: http://www.umg-verlag.de/

Quelle: FGF-Infoline vom 17.11.2005

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


Unterschriftenübergabe des Freiburger Appell an WHO

Auf Initiative von Ärztinnen und Ärzten aus dem Umfeld der IGUMED wurde im Oktober 2002 der Freiburger Appell formuliert. Bis jetzt konnten ca. 36.000 Unterschriften aus ganz Europa, vor allem aber aus der Bundesrepublik, gesammelt werden.

Nachdem das Bundesumweltministerium bis zu letzt die Entgegennahme verweigerte, wurden die Listen jetzt der WHO übergeben.

Der Freiburger Appell vom Oktober 2002 stieß auf enormen Zuspruch. Das hese-project (human, ecologic, social and economic-project) und die IGUMED e.V. (Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Umweltmedizin) organisierten und koordinierten diese bei vielen anerkannte und kritische Arbeit sehr vieler Bürgerinitiativen in Deutschland. Die Grundlagen für diese Arbeit kamen vor allem aus dem europäischen Ausland, die Salzburger und Wiener Erkenntnisse, aber auch Fakten aus Frankreich, Spanien und Israel. Es folgte im Jahre 2003 die Freiburger Erklärung, die Kasseler Petition, die Studie von Naila und im Februar 2005 der Bamberger Appell.

Die Umweltärzte wollten mit diesem Engagement auf die Sorgen und Ängste hinweisen, die sie in den Praxen für Umweltbelastete und Geschädigte beobachten konnten. Ohne eine umweltbewusste Einstellung sind chronischen Schäden und Belastungen im Frühstadium weder zu erkennen noch zu behandeln. Deshalb hatte sich die IGUMED aus Mangel an Erkenntnissen bezüglich der Effekte durch pulsierende, hochfrequente Strahlungen um dieses Thema gekümmert und zahlreiche Fälle gesammelt, bei denen ein Zusammenhang zwischen gesundheitlichen Störungen sowie Krankheiten und Mobilfunk, inklusive DECT-Telefone aufgedeckt wurde.

Eine Reihe von Symptomen und Beschwerden, die in einem Zusammenhang mit einer Exposition standen, konnten gefunden werden. Gleichzeitig haben viele Studien gezeigt, dass es Auswirkungen auf biologische Systeme (Zellen, Zellverbände, Nervengewebe und Blutzellen) und Nervenverbindungen gibt.

Lediglich aufgrund der Tatsache, dass kein akzeptiertes wissenschaftliches Modell existiert, wird ein schädigender Effekt von Mobilfunk oder DECT-Telefonen bzw. WLAN-Frequenzen von wissenschaftlichen und politischen Gremien systematisch verneint. Leider gibt es kaum unabhängige Forscher, die plausible Hinweise in wissenschaftliche Studiendesigns umsetzen können. Entweder fehlt es an finanziellen Ressourcen oder die Arbeitsgruppen sind zu klein oder es finden sich zu viele Einflussfaktoren, die ein eindeutiges Ergebnis unmöglich machen.

Der Freiburger Appell hat in den vergangenen Jahren insbesondere die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen aus ärztlicher Sicht sowie den Vorsorgeaspekt in den Vordergrund gerückt. An der Unterschriftenaktion zum Freiburger Appell konnte auch die Bundesregierung nicht vorbeigehen, jedenfalls wurde anlässlich der 2. Fachkonferenz des BfS (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz) 2003 in Berlin die Ärzteunterschriften an die Staatssekretärin im Bundesforschungsministerium Simone Probst übergeben. Das Bundesumweltministerium hatte sich allerdings bis zuletzt einer Übergabe der Unterschriften verweigert. So wurde jetzt die Gelegenheit genutzt, der WHO die Listen im Rahmen eines Workshops des International EMF Projects im Juni zu übergeben. Der Leiter der Abteilung EMF Dr. Repacholi nahm die Listen von Frau Dr. Selsam-Waldmann (Bamberg) entgegen. Die Initiative ging hierbei von der Vorsitzenden des Bundesverbandes der Elektrosensiblen Frau Dr. Stöcker aus.

Bei dieser Gelegenheit zeigte der Generaldirektor des Gesundheits- und Verbraucherschutzes der EU-Kommission P. Martin für diese Erkenntnisse und Annahmen der engagierten Ärzte wohlwollendes Interesse.

Auch wenn es in den vergangenen Jahren beim Thema EMF in Umweltverbänden und Bürgerinitiativen sehr viele kontroverse Debatten und Frustrationen gegeben hat, so war unserer Ansicht nach der Freiburger Appell für die öffentliche Diskussion wertvoll und hat für die meisten Menschen Denkanstöße auch in Bezug auf andere umweltrelevante Themen wie Gentechnik und Feinstäube bewirkt.

Kontakt:
Dr. Peter Germann
Köhlerstr.14
67549 Worms
Tel.:06241/58437
Fax : 06241/593844
dr.peter.germann@t-online.de

http://www.umg-verlag.de/umwelt-medizin-gesellschaft/405_mag1.html

Unterschriftenlisten des Freiburger Appells an WHO übergeben
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/943328/

Unterschriften zum Freiburger Appell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/763391/

"Freiburger Appell" für weniger Strahlenbelastung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630983/

Freiburger Appell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/630978/

"Freiburger Appell" - Umweltmediziner fordern Senkung der Grenzwerte
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/351487/

Freiburger Appell
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/261421/
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/229299/

Ärzteappelle gegen ungezügelten Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Mobilfunk – ein Massenexperiment am Menschen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/176116/

http://www.newstarget.com/022488.html


Informant: Salvador Lourdes

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Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/6/526

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Questioning the authority of scientific journals
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/940688/

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Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk
Interphone British Results
Criticism on former Interphone Study
Letters to the Editor

http://www.omega-news.info/morganlamjepidemiology.pdf

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verif
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Denmark

http://www.mast-victims.org/index.php?content=news&

Professor: "Report on acoustic-neuroma is worthless"
Denmark
Created: 1 Sep 2005

Danish Professor Albert Gjedde of Aarhus Hospital knocks the recently published results in a international study that suggest that people using mobile phones for more than 10 years are at greater risk of developing "acoustic-neuroma", a benevolent type of tumor in the ear.

In the British-Scandinavian part of the study, 678 people with acoustic-neuroma tumors and a control group of 3553 people without the tumor, were tested.

"The study shows a possibilty [for developing acoustic-neuroma] that warrants further investigation, but it does not prove any direct risk and is basically just a hypothesis or theory. The study in itself is worthless" - says Prof. Albert Gjedde.

Prof. Albert Gjedde disputes the test on the grounds that the results relied on the testees recalling their own amount of mobile-phone usage going years back in time. He suggests that this may have lead the tested people with acoustic-neuroma to subconsciously excaggerate their recollection of mobile-phone usage.

The study is a cooperation between England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and is a part of the "Interphone" project that aims to study possible relationsships between mobile-phone usage and brain/nerve related diseases.

Danish Government has given 30 million kroner (= 2.7 million pounds) to research into health effects of mobile telephony, but that won't go far says Albert Gjedde who would like to see more money for research.

Article text in Danish
Source: ComOn.dk, 1. sept. 2005


Informant: Iris Atzmon


Omega see also:

Professor Albert Gjedde of Aarhus Hospital
http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=31
http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=187
http://www.cfin.au.dk/index.php?menu=188

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Now we learn that the study checked phone use that is equivalent to only one hour a week....

Iris Atzmon.

----- Original Message ----- From: christinedoyle To: Iris Atzmon Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:05 AM Subject: Emailing: newsprint.htm

Doctor warns against long-term cellphone use

Hong Kong - People should avoid long-term use of cellphones a Hong Kong neurosurgeon has warned, a media report said on Sunday.

Dawson Fong To-sang, chief of neurosurgery at Tuen Mun Hospital, said further research was needed to study the effects of phone use on the brain, the South China Morning Post reported.

Fong wanted more investigation to be done on the effects of phone use in the temporal region of the brain which is slightly in front of and above the ear. That area is most likely to be covered by the mobile phone and exposed to the highest frequencies, the doctor said.

He was commenting following the most recent study, carried out by Britain's Institute of Cancer Research, which found no links to the incidence of acoustic neuroma-type brain tumours which occur directly underneath the ear.

Surveyed 678 people who have used cellphones for 10 years The results of study, which surveyed 678 people who have used cellphones for 10 years, were published last week.

Fong said the study was limited because only one type of brain tumour -acoustic neuroma - was studied and the amount of time people spent using their phone was only equivalent to one hour a week.

He believed this was much less than many people, particularly youngsters and businessmen, spend using cellphones.

Fong said people should limit cellphone use to emergencies and avoid buying them for children under 14 years old.

"It's a very good invention, but to abuse it might well cause trouble in later years," he added. - Sapa-dpa

Published on the Web by IOL on 2005-09-04 10:46:16 © Independent Online 2005. All rights reserved. IOL publishes this article in good faith but is not liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information it contains.

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Thanks for this Iris!!!

I knew there had to be something missing -- the same way studies were done re EMF RAPID -- either not checking effects of the obvious "white blood cells" which is the well-known way to check for overdose of ionizing radiation. As you know, "white blood cells" are related to Leukemia/Leukaemia regardless of the type of radiation and yet one scientist after another chooses some other parameter for their studies to prove whether there are effects. Then, as you know, studies are often re "intermittent exposures" unlike what happens to the innocent child/person who sleeps close to electric appliances, high frequencies on electrical wiring, electric meters, high voltage powerlines and cell tower antennae.

Assoc. Prof. Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden specializes in dermatologic effects. You will note his research re EMR does investigate known effects of chronic, prolonged ultraviolet exposure when studying other EMR effects.

Since Leukemia/Leukaemia has been known to be the main cancer associated with nuclear radiation for over 50 years and since Leukemia/Leukaemia is the primary cancer that has been linked to Leukemia/Leukaemia, the most obvious studies to prove/disprove effects of chronic, prolonged EMR exposures at low doses are those that focus on white blood cell changes.

Inflammation is the beginning of the precancerous process. Inflammation can initially be identified by white blood cell changes. Studies must simulate "real life exposures" such as sleeping in one location for 6-8 hours every night for a month to six weeks (at a minimum depending on distance from source) re chronic, prolonged EMR exposures and obviously, any study relying on cell phone usage for an average of one hour even if evaluating months of exposure, does not come close to providing meaningful results!!!

Each and every study that did not find EMR adversely affects health should be challenged in similar way. Take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican@aol.com

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The breaking of bonds in DNA during transcription need not be the high-energetic effect of covalent bonds, but more likely breaking the much weaker Van der Waals forces. Damage during transcription is not the same as watching DNA being literally blown apart by photons.

Further, the damage is just as likely to be via free radicals, which do cause DNA damage. And since studies show that EMF does affect both the generation of free radicals and the supression of free radical removal, this mechanism cannot be dismissed either.

Therefore we have observational studies of actual DNA damage, and two possible mechanisms.

Andy

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And I really can't understand where they get "the absence of a known biological mechanism for this" from.

Sorry: I keep muttering about this study. Interesting that even the establishment is remaining very cautious over this study. How would its methodology be challenged if the results had been the other way? I'd like to see the whole Journal article: does anyone have access?

Andy

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Risk of a tumour on the same side of the head as reported phone use was raised for use for 10 years or longer (OR=1.8, 95% CI: 1.1-3.1).

Andy, did the news report this? An increased risk of 80% (OR=1.8) on the same side of the head.

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Dear Andy,

is the 'Swedlow' referred to as the chief investigator in this study, the 'Swerdow' with an R, who used to work for the telecoms and in fact was the one who tried to stop all further research as it would be a 'waste of time'? If they are one and the same, the conclusions of this study are no suprise - and obviously extremely suspect!

BW Jenny

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I believe it is one and the same. And Chairman of AGNIR. Swerdlow also noted the night-time melatonin and women shift workers, which was brought up in the Andrew Mitchell MP debate, Jan 04.

Did he actually say no more research? Several time he has remained cautious "we still don't know".

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Andy, I'm almost certain Swerdlow is the one who called for research to stop....perfectly safe, no need to waste more time and money. Unfortunately I can't recall the details or when this occurred - but if anyone else can call it to mind with anything more accurate than a memory, it could be useful I would think. If I am correct (and I think I am) the fact that he is also a 'telecom' man pretending to be independent, should indicate bias and bring this study into disrepute. Perhaps this might be something for the PR people?

BW Jenny

Hi Jenny and Andy.

The Dane "Jorgen Bach Andersen" who is the main person on the Danish research into "Mobile damage" is one of those you call a "Telecom man" Pretending to be an independent ( he was also on the European study, The name COST). Our H3G expert witness Dr. Chadwick was on the same study, repeating the "same old" INCIRP, NRPB, whatever, nothing not repeated or read (I wonder how did Dr. Chadwick ever get a degree?, or has he?) Yeah, the schools degrade!

Andersen has been successful to convince the Danish Government to hire him as "THE INDEPENDENT SCIENTIST" they could use for this project and they are wondering (Danish government) why foreign scientists do not want to join the program. Why would they? With Anderson at the steering wheel they risk serious discrediting if they do not agree with him.

The thing is, he is not a scientist, he earns his living by working for the mobile phone industry, but then, he serves up all the answers the government wants to hear. There is a Danish scientist who has been fighting for the harmful mobile telephony cause for years. Her name is Sianette Kwee, who would have made a really good job of this research, so why do you think she has not been asked and she has been degraded, (even her university website has been taken away). SHE IS NOT POSITIVE ENOUGH. So much for Nordic Democracy! She has the same views as Olle Johansen. She has been warning of dangers for years. Look her up

http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega271103.htm

If you type in her name on Google you get loads more.

We have just got the cost bill from the courtcase from Freshfields, Hutchisons lawyers in our court case for £. 470.000.- (yesterday) so I am a bit bloody minded right now, but I will be OK tomorrow if I can sleep, for a few hours, and get even more bloody minded and tell them to: F... O..) So see you later.

Best regards.

Agnes.
http://www.mast-victims.org

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The wrong signals
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAD33.htm

Before you read this bear in mind that it is in Spiked an online publication and BT and the Mobile Operators Association are amongst its sponsors. They also rather curiously have the Medical Research Council as a sponsor. Spiked claims to stand for liberty, enlightenment and something else - writing biased and poorly researched articles hardly bears that out. It seems to have Burgess amongst its supporters. The study referred to is the one out the other day. Andy has written us a press release which went out yesterday.

To contact Spiked go to
http://www.spiked-online.com/Sections/central/About/Index.htm

the email address to write/complain to is editorial@spiked-online.com

They boast that content is of immense importance to them. I think this lot below can be torn apart fairly easily. Please email this article to anyone who has fought a mast campaign because they claim that one or two campaigners force others to join them and so stop masts going up. Please could anyone suffering ill effects from masts email them. This article is badly researched and they are ill-informed and bear in mind BURGESS has no scientific qualifications whatsoever.

Thanks

sian

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What a remarkably ignorant editorial from "Spiked". Technology is wonderful, don't worry about the risks till later? Sounds like "New Orleans is a great holiday destination, don't shore up the levees, it won't happen" (as per today's news).

Of course you have to think worst case.

Andy

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Re the 'Spiked' outfit.

Note their past ill-doings in the promotion of gm crops and foods - as uncovered by gmwatch and forerunner - 'ngin' in their article - 'Strange Bedfellows'- http://ngin.tripod.com/190303d.htm

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The wrong signals

A major new study rejects the notion that mobile phones cause cancer. That the health authorities tell us to worry anyway shows that there's more to this debate than the science. First they don't say the real findings (it's about benign tumors, it shows increase AFTER 10 years), and then they continue their own manipulation and build a whole theory on this. It's ridiculus. it's spin in spin in spin etc....

I find it hard to grasp how the journalists are ready to make such idiots of themselves, and how "experts" from government can say very unscientific things and people still treat them with respect. They should be ridiculed publically, they invite it. It's unbelievable how brainwash works. Things like "an apple is black" can be accepted without question. Just makes you wonder what a world we live in.

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To editorial@spiked-online.com

Although you describe yourself as an online publication which stands for liberty and "enlightenment", your latest article on mobile phones is an appalling piece of journalism, which demonstrates the exact opposite. Looking at your list of sponsors, it becomes glaringly obvious why your article is so biased and ill researched. I will discuss this with Mike Dolan of the MOA at our next meeting.

To attack the precautionary approach on the basis of your obvious lack of understanding of Science is a dangerous path to tread, in particular as your article fuels a careless attitude to mobile phone use. This approach will backfire in due course when the dangers become clear.

Ever heard of the Freiburger and Bamberger Appeal which was signed by thousands of European medical professionals and the Naila Study, carried out by German doctors, which indicates that within a 400 m radius around a mobile phone mast cancer rates treble?? Obvioulsy NOT!

Please check the credentials of "Scientists" like Burgess before solely relying on their evidence. It is also very disturbing that Prof. Swerdlow from Cancer Research is Chair of AGNIR, advising government on non ionising radiation. Don't you think that this represents a conflict of interest?

Attacks on campaign groups like MastSanity - a registered National charity, representing thousands of members and giving help and advise to people who experience health problems due to exposure to pulsed magnetic fields - demonstrate your desperate attempt to appease your sponsors. For further feedback please see

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=199

I. Dickenson


From Mast Sanity

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New study on acoustic neuromas and cell phone use

Here’s some good news for the Telcos spin factories: “No brain cancer link to mobile phones, study says” Watch the spinning of media articles coming out proclaiming the old ‘mobiles proven safe’ line. More justification for Motorola’s call to end all future research.

Note however, that Swerdlow is not saying there is no risk, just no “substantial risk in the first decade after starting use”. This is not new news as it is generally accepted that it would take at least 10 years for a statistically detectible risk to appear - if there is a risk. And what about that other study that found a connection with acoustic neuroma after 10 years of cell phone use?

What about what the Russian and Chinese RF scientists who see the risk of a whole range of possible neurological effects from prolonged cell phone use?

Note what Swerdlow et al said in December of 2004*:

“Despite the ubiquity of new technologies using RF’s, little is known about population exposures from RF sources and even less about the relative importance of different sources. Other cautions are that mobile phone studies to date have been able to address only relatively short lag periods, that almost no data are available on the consequences of childhood exposure, and that published data largely concentrate on a small number of outcomes, especially brain tumor and leukemia.”

* Ahlbom A, Green A, Kfeifets L, Savitz D, Swerdlow A, Epidemiology of Health Effects of Radiofrequency Exposure, Env. Health Pers. Vol. 112, NO. 17, Dec. 2004

This study is just another footnote in a long history of studies that have failed to give any real answers to the urgent question. What will be the effects on their mental wellbeing for the millions of children using mobile phones in 10-15 -20 years of use?

Don Maisch

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=193 (excerpt)

The Lonn study: no connection with mobile phone use and cancer. Really? http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=195

The Lonn study, commentary from Lloyd Morgan
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=196

Definitive Comments from the Central Brain Tumor Registry (USA)
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=204

The Lonn study: commentary from Sam Milham
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=197

Power Watch analysis on that acoustic neuroma study
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=202

Spinning of the Interphone study from “Spiked”
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=199

The Bizarre foundations of “Spiked”
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=201



http://tinyurl.com/2o3sph
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=brain+tumor
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=acoustic+neuroma
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Interphone
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=MTHR
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Challis
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Coghill
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Lloyd+Morgan

30.08.2005 14:49

Österreichische Ärztekammer: Erstmals haben sich auch in epidemiologischen Untersuchungen am Menschen Schädigungen der Erbsubstanz gezeigt.

Die Österreichische Ärztekammer (ÖAK) warnt nun auch vor den Folgen von Handy- und Schnurlostelefonie. Laut ÖAK haben erstmals auch epidemiologische Untersuchungen ergeben, dass vor allem das Handy Schädigungen der Erbsubstanz sowie ein erhöhtes Tumor-Risiko verursachen kann.

Tumore. Zwei in der Fachzeitschrift "Environmental Research" und der Fachzeitschrift "Neuroepidemiology" publizierte Untersuchungen aus Schweden würden das vorliegende Bild ergänzen. Sie zeigen laut ÖAK wie schon zwei vorhergehende Studien ein erhöhtes Risiko für Tumore des Hörnervs sowie erstmals auch für bösartige Gehirntumore wie etwa Astrozytome nach langjähriger Verwendung von analogen und digitalen Handys sowie von Schnurlostelefonen.

Die Dosis zählt. "Es geht wie bei vielen Umwelt- und Lebensstilfaktoren auch bei elektromagnetischen Feldern und Strahlen um die Dosis. Und die kumuliert im Laufe der Jahre, wie die vorliegenden Studien uns zeigen. Kinder sollten Funktelefone deshalb grundsätzlich nicht verwenden", sagte der Referent für Umweltmedizin der Österreichischen Ärztekammer, Dr. Gerd Oberfeld, am Dienstag in einer Aussendung.

Viel zu wenig bekannt sei außerdem, dass auch die Verwendung von schnurlosen Heimtelefonen zu einer Strahlenbelastung führe, so Oberfeld. Die ÖÄK rate daher, für Telefonate zu Hause Schnurtelefone zu verwenden.

Schlafstörungen und Depressionen. Auch für die Belastung durch Handymasten und die Basisstationen von Schnurlostelefonen können immer mehr Beweise gefunden werden. Unzählige Fallberichte zeigen zum Teil deutliche Auswirkungen auf Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit. In diesen Untersuchungen zeigten sich bei Anrainern von Handymasten unter anderem vermehrt Schlafstörungen, Konzentrationsprobleme, Energielosigkeit und Depressionen. Diese Symptome hätten in den vergangenen Jahren zugenommen.

http://www.kleine.at/nachrichten/hightech/artikel/_721967/index.jsp

WIEN. Die Diskussion um den Mobilfunk ist seit gestern um eine Facette reicher: Nach einer schwedischen Untersuchung warnt auch die Österreichische Ärztekammer (ÖAK) vor der Mobiltelefonie.

Eine aktuelle Untersuchung aus Schweden, die in zwei Fachmagazinen veröffentlicht wurde, bestätigt: Das Mobiltelefon zeige auf allen naturwissenschaftlichen Nachweisebenen Schädigungen der menschlichen Erbsubstanz. Zu dem gebe es laut der Untersuchung ein erhöhtes Risiko für gewisse Tumore. Besonders gefährdet sei dabei der Hörnerv. Erstmals wurde jetzt auch nachgewiesen, dass bösartige Gehirntumore auch nach langjähriger Verwendung von Mobiltelefonen und Schnurlostelefonen entstehen können.

Mit diesen Studien im Petto folgt jetzt die ÖAK der Empfehlung der Wiener Ärztekammer, zu mehr Sorgfalt mit mobilen Kommunikationsmitteln vor allem für Kinder. "Es geht wie bei vielen Umwelt- und Lebensstilfaktoren auch bei elektromagnetischen Feldern und Strahlungen um die Dosis. Und die kumuliert im Laufe der Jahre, wie die aktuellen Studien zeigen. Kinder sollten Funktelefone deshalb grundsätzlich nicht verwenden", sagt der Referent für Umweltmedizin in der ÖAK, Gerd Oberfeld.

Die heimischen Mobilfunker wehrten sich gestern vehement gegen die Warnung: Es handle sich dabei um "ein weiteres Scharmützel im unreflektierten Feldzug der Österreichischen Ärztekammer gegen mobile Funktechnologien", so die Kritik des Forum Mobilfunk (FMK).

vom 31.08.2005

http://www.nachrichten.at/lokal/382808?PHPSESSID=2ff9b0847a15ac3b83582e65d1ed6f0d

Since everything in our bodies has electrical charges, including the chemical or hormone reactions, would help explain why it can affect us.

Here's a little piece I found the other day from:

Secret Report On Cell Phone Dangers And Tetra
http://www.rense.com/general60/tetra.htm

We being water based animals act like aerials to these waves. As the waves go into our bodies an electric current is generated inside our bodies which is how aerials work; waves come in and electricity is generated. The electricity generated in our bodies like all electric currents goes to ground through our bodies and like all electric currents it takes the path of least resistance. Unfortunately the path of least resistance through our bodies, although only representing 10% of our pathways, carries 90% of our traffic rather like the M1 motorway. The traffic in our bodies, namely hormones, antibodies, neurotransmitters know where they are going because they also carry an electric charge. The hormones, antibodies and neurotransmitters know where to "get off" because there is a corresponding opposite charge at the site of delivery rather like the positive and negative ends of a battery. The problem is if you have an electric current passing through the body it can change this charge, either on the hormones, antibodies or neurotransmitters or the site of delivery.

I can't say entirely for certain on that Dr. Mercola page was it? about what he says on the progesterone getting overloaded in your fat cells. I rather wonder if he is confusing the synthetic progestins with the botanical progesterones. If you use too much, it doesn't take long to figure out, because you get feeling lethargic or sluggish, alhtough not in an ill way. Just lay off it for 2-3 days and the excess is excreted. Been using it for many years, as it is necessary to keep cancer away from me, although it looks like it may be catching up with me now. The synthetic "progesterone" -progestin on the other hand can also cause cancer, liver damage etc.

If I can find the bit about the progesterone and static shocks I'll post it. I know it works from doing it myself and others I've spoken with. Other than the occasional before mentioned symptoms of using too much, I've not in over a decade come across a single person, or read of a single incident of harm from the botanical variety.

~Snoshoe



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