Subject: Liburdy, Reuters story on the NIH accusations (Kelley)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 042832 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Hi everybody:
.......It looks to me like Reuters reported it correctly (below).
Notice that Reuters correctly called the government charges:
"allegations."
Still missing from the "facts," however, is the information about
Liburdy's (government funded) melatonin research -- which has been
replicated by other labs -- and the fact that this research was
funded (authorized?) AFTER and during the process of the government's
so-called investigation.
Liburdy's melatonin research, which included findings about the effects
of EMF on Tamoxifen, is far more important than the earlier (1994)
research on calcium ions, where the allegation has arisen.... Many
other scientists have found the calcium ion "effects." Liburdy was the
first to find the melatonin effects -- which raise questions about an
EMF impact upon the immune system..... [Be sure you read the Liburdy
paper that is posted on guru's web-site....]
Just a thought?!? Some of you will remember that Liburdy's findings
on Tamoxifen were very disturbing to the cancer industry -- headed by
the National Cancer Institute. Tamoxifen was their "baby" -- even to
the point that NCI prematurely ended a research effort on that drug
in order to beat the British drug companies "to the market."
That episode "smelled" like a case of 'cutting short the scientific side
of the investigation' in order to get the drug into the hands of the
American drug companies for commercial sale. The Brits, in the meantime,
continued the scientific trials that the two countries had originally
agreed on -- though Britain, too, had the right to commercialize the drug
through British companies. They, of course, were 'finessed' by the
premature ending of the trials in the U.S. which put U.S. sales of the
drug "out there" first.
Remember that Liburdy's Tamoxifen research found that Tamoxifen's quality
as a cancer "defender" was cancelled out in an EMF environment....????......
It does seem right -- therefore -- to 'wonder' about the NCI's behavior
(below).........
[....One of these days, we'll look into the impact of the "$$$$$ cancer
industry" on scientific "research." If you are a Wall Street investor --
the guru is -- you know that the "cancer industry" is one of the most
lucrative "on the Street."....... There are not many "signals" that
Wall Street reads better than the release of a new drug -- even though
"unproven" -- as a signal to drive up the price of a drug company
stock........ Yeah, I know, another "conspiracy theory." Guru says:
these are not "conspiracies." It is the SYSTEM!!!....]
Cheerio.....(Our thanks, again, to Libby for forwarding these press
stories about the Liburdy "incident" that seem to be appearing in San
Francisco -- though not elsewhere??? Wherever they appear -- make sure
the facts are right!!!!.....)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:18:55 -0700
From: Libby Kelley
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Reuters story on the NIH accusations against Liburdy
Calif lab asked to repay grants over faked data
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The National Cancer Institute wants grant money
back from a California laboratory where a researcher allegedly faked data
suggesting a link between electromagnetic radiation and cancer, the San
Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday.
A letter sent this month by the National Cancer Institute to officials at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, said the
agency seeks the return of $804,321 in grant money that supported research by
Robert Liburdy between Jan. 1, 1991 and March 31, 1994.
But the lab opposed repayment, saying it would amount to a penalty for
investigating and reporting the case.
``The institution was brave enough to question the validity of some
findings,'' lab spokesman Ron Kolb told the Chronicle. ''We took a stand, and
we believe this is a chilling message to to other institutions who are
expected to police themselves.''
Laboratory officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Liburdy claimed that his studies had located the first plausible biological
mechanism linking electromagnetic fields generated by power lines, home
wiring and household appliances to cancer and other diseases, including
leukemia.
But an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's
Office of Research Integrity concluded that Liburdy committed ``scientific
misconduct'' by intentionally falsifying and fabricating data to support his
assertions that electromagnetic fields could cause effects in human cells.
Liburdy, 51, resigned his 15-year position in March after the lab withdrew
his funding and in May agreed with the Office of Research Integrity to
retract three data graphs he had used to back up his conclusions in two 1992
scientific articles.
Liburdy, who also agreed to a three-year ban on receiving any federal
funding, has denied any wrongdoing in the case and said he agreed to the
conditions imposed by the Office of Research Integrity because he could not
afford a lengthy legal battle to clear his name, the Chronicle reported.
The possibility of links between electromagnetic fields and cancer has long
been hotly debated, but remains unproven.
14:41 08-11-99
Libby Kelley
Executive Director
Ad Hoc Associaiton of Parties concerned About the FCC's Radiofrequency
Radiation Health and Safety Rules
aka Council on Wireless Technology Impacts
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com