Subject: Re [Failing sperm counts.....] (fwd)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 134549 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
The response to recent messages has been breaking all records!!!
I simply can't forward all of them ... without running the risk of
wearing out our welcome in the mailboxes of our group.....
So, as some of you know (I'm sure), I have not been forwarding every
good message I receive..... Many good messages simply have had to
wait for me to look at them over a few days ... and reconsider their
merit in terms of the whole group..... Every editor regards such a
situation as highly desirable! I am no different. So, please keep it
up! Make me ponder and read and reread as editors should do......
That should contribute to the quality -- and perhaps the outcome! --
of what we are doing here.
The message forwarded below is one that I have 'pondered' and 'repondered'
for a few days. I do think most of you will find it of considerable
interest.
It does offer this old sailor, however, the chance to differ strongly
with one of the observations made by the author: Marjorie, in TWENTY
years among sailors (much of it on "liberty" in foreign ports) ... I NEVER
met ONE sailor (or officer) who worried in the 'least' ... whether or not
he was "spreading his seed" too far ... and was, thus, moved to take the
protective measure you describe below..... Marjorie, it didn't happen!!!!
Somebody was "pulling your leg.".....
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:41:07
From: marjlundquist@usa.net
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Re: [Failing sperm counts.....]
I think it highly likely that the dropping sperm counts all over the
world--in the developed countries, at least--may well be due to RF EMF
and particularly, to the microwave EMF that is increasing in our
environment due to wireless telecommunications systems, and also to the
RF fields that surround electric power lines because of "power line
carrier" (which now is present on virtually every local electric power
distribution system in the United Kingdom, and also in most major cities
of the USA and Canada, and probably many major cities of Europe, also).
In World War II, servicemen on board ships with radar used to
deliberately irradiate their testicles before shore leave, so as to
render themselves temporarily infertile. [?????-guru] My point is that
it is well known that a dose of microwave radiation, or high-frequency RF,
can depress sperm production in human beings for a period of time after
the administration of this dose.
Now, with wireless telecommunications, we are putting this stuff into our
environment permanently. We ought to expect a depression of sperm count
as a consequence! [!!!!!!!-guru] [Also, can anyone in the research
community explain "why" -- in spite of MANY suggestions and indications
that we should be studying the EMF effects on testosterone -- it simply
is not being done!?!?!?-guru]
But the depression that is currently being reported probably has some
other source, because I don't think the wireless telecommunications
systems have been in operation long enough, or are widespread enough yet,
to produce the observed depression in sperm counts.
The most likely cause, in my judgment, is the RF field around electric
power lines that results from the presence on local distribution lines of
"power line carrier". There is reason to believe that these fields are
particularly strong in the UK; and since they will bathe people sleeping
in their beds at night, as well as people at work during the day, the
virtually continuous exposure for the decade or two that I estimate these
fields have been so strong on local distribution lines as to adversely
affect people's health could well produce such a drop in sperm count in
the population at large, I think. [I think these same fields are
responsible for the cancer hazard that is associated with proximity to
electric power lines; but that is a different health issue, so I shall
not discuss it further here.]
Roy, I have not yet read your essay, so what I am saying here is
entirely independent of what you have said in your essay. - Marjorie
*********************************
Marjorie Ludnquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
P. O. Box 11831
Milwaukee, WI 53211-0831 USA
*********************************
P.S. Power line carrier frequencies are in the kilohertz range, but I
have noticed that their biological effects are comparable to those of
microwave frequencies emitted from antennas. The reason for this, in my
judgment, is that the health effects of microwave frequencies have been
studied using the fields from EFFICIENT antennas. However, the RF fields
around electric power lines are different: they are the fields
characteristic of INEFFICIENT antennas, and I am satisfied that the
latter are far more hazardous than the former, when one is close to the
source. As the general rule of thumb is that high frequencies are more
hazardous to health than lower frequencies, it might be expected that RF
fields from kilohertz power line carrier frequencies are not nearly so
hazardous as microwave frequency fields would be, because of the much
lower frequency of the former. This statement would be true if both
fields being compared had the characteristics of an INEFFICIENT antenna
field, or if both had the characteristics of an EFFICIENT antenna field.
But in the real world, we are being exposed to INEFFICIENT antenna fields
at kilohertz frequencies from power line carrier, and also to microwave
frequency fields emitted from EFFICIENT antennas. The difference in the
type of field from the two sources seems to offset the frequency
difference, making BOTH of these fields highly hazadous to health--and
equally likely to depress sperm counts, in my judgment! If I am correct
in thinking that power line carrier fields in the UK are responsible for
the currently observed depression of sperm counts, then the growth of
wireless telecommunications over the coming decade is likely to depress
sperm counts even more strongly in coming years--at least, in cities
where the base transmitters for these systems are most numerous!
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rbeavers@llion.org wrote:
> Hi everybody:
>
> As old as I am ... I find that the following story still captures
> MY attention..... Good for the Brits!!! But, what took them so
> long???
>
> Hope you will go again and read my 1996 essay on this subject:
>
>
> Since writing that essay, we have heard much more about the possible
> synergistic effect between EMF and chemical disruption.....
>
>
> Cheerio.....
>
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
> rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
> ................................It is better to light a single candle ...
> than to curse the darkness...............................................
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Britain orders probe into failing sperm counts
>
>
> CHESTER, England, April 25 (Reuters) - Britain is to launch
> a government research programme to investigate whether falling
> sperm counts are endangering the nation's reproductive capacity,
> Environment Minister Michael Meacher said on Saturday.
> ``I am very concerned about the various reports of declining
> reproductive health in man and wildlife, and suggestions that
> this could be due to chemicals,'' he said.
> Meacher, who is attending an informal meeting of European
> Union environment and transport ministers in Chester, north-west
> England, said the government needed to find out whether the
> trend towards lower potency was real and whether chemicals were
> the cause.
> He said the government would spend over three million pounds
> ($5 million) on two studies.
> The first would be into whether sperm counts and quality
> were declining in men, and whether this was associated with
> increases in testicular cancer and birth defects in boys.
> The second would focus on fish and other marine wildlife,
> especially in British estuaries, to see whether they are
> suffering hormonal problems.
> ^REUTERS@
>
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