Subject: Coincidence? (Kramer)..
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 143313 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
--------------------------------------------------
........Guru comments below..... Please do me the honor of reading
what I have written below.....
Cheerio
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST???
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:54:25 -0500
From: "M. David Kramer"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Coincidence?
Dear Roy,
How timely.
£2.2 billion ($3.46 billion) was added to the British
treasury and the following articles appeared today in the
British press.
M. David Kramer
Aegis Corporation
http://www.goaegis.com
Expert report gives mobile phones a clean bill of health
Patrick Wintour, Chief political correspondent
Friday 28 April, 2000
Mobile phones are not a proven health risk to their users,
according to a long-awaited report by 12 independent
experts.
Claims that emissions from mobile phones in effect heat the
brain, causing illnesses ranging from memory loss to
tumours, appear to be unfounded, the 10-month Stewart
inquiry has concluded.
Evidence in the report, due to be published on May 11,
suggests that mobiles heat the brain by only one tenth of a
degree while the body's temperature normally varies by one
degree thoughout the day.
The report will call, however, for tighter controls on
emissions to match the norm in Europe. It will also urge the
Department of Health and business to fund more research,
especially into the non-thermal effects of phones.
The mobile phone companies, fearful of a commercially
damaging report, have been kept abreast of its direction as
they prepared their bids, halted at £22bn yesterday, for the
new generation of licences.
Critics of the report will claim that the committee of
physicists and neurologists - headed by Professor William
Stewart of Tayside University hospital - has been "captured"
by the national radiological protection board which has
acted as the secretariat to the committee. Members of the
NRPB gave evidence to the committee strongly suggesting
mobiles were safe.
Prof Stewart and his colleagues are said to have been struck
by the vehemence of the opposition to the siting of mobile
masts and the public's sense of powerlessness in their
erection.
They are set to recommend changes to make it easier to block
masts - especially when they are sited near schools.
There are more than 20,000 masts in Britain and their number
is expected to grow rapidly. Orange alone is planning to
increase its sites from 6,500 to 10,000 by the end of next
year.
Minutes of the group's meeting with the public show it
"recognised there was a need to empower the public,
particlarly in the area of planning".
It is expected to recommend a system of full planning
control on new masts and give councils a right to take
public fear of health risks into account. A full national
register of masts is also likely to be proposed.
The measures follow similar recommendations from the
Scottish Parliament's environment select committee.
The Department of Trade and Industry has opposed changing
planning procedures, fearing it will leave the industry prey
to local politics and result in a patchy phone network. The
industry will also be put under new pressure to share masts.
The group is likely to reject claims that mast base stations
are health risks. Even at 20 to 30 metres from towers,
emission exposure levels are similar to television and radio
broadcasts, the NRPB has advised the group.
The mobile phone companies, led by the Federation of the
Electronics Industry, has been pressing hard for the group
not to recommend the removal of 500 base stations near
schools. The industry says removal would cost £100m.
Parents have claimed children are vulnerable to radiowaves
since their immune systems are still not developed. The
group accepted that "if there is a risk, children may be at
increased risk". The NRPB will be asked to conduct regular
spot checks near schools, rather than leaving them to the
companies.
A Mori poll for the federation found only 2% cited mobile
phones as their primary health risk. Asked what they
disliked most about mobiles, 16% cited health dangers, well
behind the 47% which referred to aspects of their
intrusiveness.
Mobile phones won't kill you after all
The Register
by: Sean Fleming
28 April, 2000
There is no proof that mobile phones can damage your health.
That is the conclusion of the Stewart inquiry, which will
publish the results of its 10 month investigation on 11 May,
according to The Guardian.
Further, the report says there is no risk from mobile phone
transmission masts and children are not necessarily more
vulnerable to mobile phone radiation.
The findings are likely to cause upset and anger among the
"mobile phones rot your
brains" lobby, but the Stewart report states that while
mobiles raises the emperature
of the brain by only one tenth of a degree the overall
temperature of the human body normally fluctuates by about
one whole degree during an average day.
So it looks like we might indeed be at greater risk from our
TV sets and microwave
ovens after all.
A great body of allegorical evidence stands to be rubbished
by the report's findings,
although the Stewart inquiry has recommended increased
investigation into the
possible health implications of non-thermal effects of
mobile phones.
Still, all this is good news for the 24 million mobile phone
users in the UK and the one million Brits that have had
their landline phones removed and gone have mobile-only.
But far from adopting a cavalier attitude to the concerned
masses, the Stewart report is to recommend that opposition
to the siting of transmission masts is given greater weight.
************************
Guru comments:
Well ... it's the same old story, again ... another "government" panel has
taken the **cop-out** path..... It is clearly a cop-out to say: "There is
no **proof** that mobile phones can damage your health."
It is a true statement, but it begs the question ... and it is a sad
commentary on the quality and integrity of British
governmental/science.....
I, for one, expected more of the land of John Locke, John Stewart Mill,
and Charles Darwin.....
No-one seems to have the guts to dare to ask (and answer) the question
that is really of PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE to the public:
What is the evidence "pointing us toward" in terms of a public
health risk.....??? What prudent protective measures should we be
considering in the face of consistent and replicated scientific
studies which show that: something "nasty" is happening when
electromagnetic radiation (at very low energy levels) comes into
contact with human cells ... resulting in (more than one form of)
biological activity in combination with those cells......
And ... when ... the epidemiological studies show consistent "low
calculated" risk factors; but perhaps, actually, not so low ...
when the widespread presence of EMF/EMR in the public surroundings
is recognized as a "leveling" factor in those calculations.
Or, must we - as in the case of tobacco, lead and others - wait for what
science/industry call "proof" ... thereby endangering the lives of
countless millions more British (and world) citizens.....???
Instead of addressing that question, the Stewart panel (in the same
gutless fashion as others who have gone before) gave the "tobacco science"
answer......!! That's the $$$$$$$$$ answer.....
If the panel concluded (apparently they did not) that the evidence pointed
toward "no risk," then they should have had the guts to say so.....
Those who are familiar with all the evidence ... understand well ... WHY
they did not reach that conclusion.....!!! Still, THAT is the public
health issue!!! That is the question the public still needs to have
addressed.....
The Stewart panel has failed in its most important responsibility....
It has produced another "pablum" judgement.... Protecting the industry
interests.....
It is shameful -- that's all..... A disgrace - which I suggest Sir
William and his panel will never live down......
Cheerio....
Roy Beavers
April 28, 2000
Lebanon, Missouri, USA
Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org
Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com