Subject:  Blue World (Gustavs) (Philips)... (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 24 Aug 1999 155741 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:28:10
From: Alasdair Philips 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: Blue World (Gustavs) (Philips)... (fwd)

At 12:32 24/08/99 -0500, you wrote:
> If I were in any way responsible, I would be ashamed of that
>pitiful chapter in the recent NIEHS report (pp. 31-34), "How high are
>exposures in the U.S. population."  It took a couple of industry sources
>and printed them as if they were science.....  Both were done by the same
>industry-sponsored person and both approached the problem as if a
>time-weighted-average (of ELF) were all that was needed to understand the
>Blue World.....
>
>Cheerio.....
>Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
>rbeavers@llion.org.......
>.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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"time-weighted-average (of ELF)"
Splutter, splutter, !?@~#!!!!!!!!
Roy
I couldn't agree with you more!

The 24hr TWA is the most useless metric of all and gud ole Bill Kaune
has somehow managed to get it adopted as almost the de-facto metric in
modern studies. Industry loves it as it hides most associations!

Mary McBride even averaged it over 48 hours! See the interesting comment
by NIEHS Director Dr Portier in his interview with Louis Slesin:
(MWNews July/Aug 1999, p11):
McBride's 48 hr data didn't show an EMF level related problem but her
unpublished 24 hr data did! I wonder what her overnight bed-time
data would have shown?

Simon Studholme died of leukaemia which he developed after about 6 months
of sleeping with his head in a 35mG (3.5uT) field every night from an
electricity meter which was on the other side of his bedroom wall just
where his bed-head was - the meter was in the hallway of a bungalow
(single story house). The 24hr TWA worked out at 1.1mG and that was a
large part of why the case was dropped (on Bill Kaune's advice).

Since then I have looked at various time logged data and have become
convinced that the 24 hr TWA is not a useful metric to use - which is
probably why all the main studies have now adopted it with open arms.

The night and day measurements also need to be listed separately, and
the electric field needs to be included too. I am personally convinced
that the child's night-time bed fields are the most significant - but
try to get that data out of the reasearch teams. You will not succeed.
Why? If it doesn't show anything why do they refuse to make that data
public? It really mystifies me as I do believe that most of the
researchers are people of good intent.

Good wishes
Alasdair


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Alasdair Philips,   BSc(Eng), DAgE, MIAgE
Director, UK Powerwatch, (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
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