Subject: Re Apple Computer adds Wireless Option (Brown).... (fwd)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 140709 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......Yes, Dr. Cherry's work is available on the internet.... Some of
it is in the EMF-L Archives.... He also has a ZIP download (of a
longer paper) available which he will send to those requesting.....
(I seem to remember that some of the other EMF web-sites have his papers
available???)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
EMF-L web-site can be found at:
EMF-L archives can be found at:
..................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS..................
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:56:57 -0700
From: Christopher Beaver
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Apple Computer adds Wireless Option (Brown)....
Dear Roy:
I, too, found the recent Apple embrace of wireless technology for the
iBook repugnant. Over the past two weeks, I've come to believe that a
certain fondness for the "sensuality" of wireless communication is not
simply because advocates have taken the other side. They more often
simply do not have access to resources such as your internet forum or to
direct contact with your various respondents or have not applied their
powers of critical thinking to the subject.
The current situation is a testement to the financial and persuasive
powers of the telecommunications industry.
[.....And to the pro-industry protective stance of the U.S. government
plus the "cowardice" of the news media in failing to see to it that the
public is more fully informed...... It is easy for the industry to "win"
a "P.R." contest when the other side is represented only in a few
internet sites and/or news lists......guru......]
Nevertheless I am made almost physically upset by the mindless "rah-rah"
boys-with-toys tone concerning wireless technologies from such magazines
as MacAddict, of which I am a subscriber.
As such, I've sent e-mails to two Apple internet resources, one for
MacAddict Magazine and one called MacInTouch.
I received a follow-up inquiry from a person at MacInTouch who had
similar concerns and wanted to know if there was an on-line source for
Dr. Cherry's study. To my knowledge one doesn't exist, meaning I, among
others, have some work we need to do. But I did offer to send at no
charge a copy of the compendium of Dr. Goldsmith's commentaries. The
person has not responded to my offer.
This is what I wrote to MacInTouch:
Wireless Networking and Electromagnetic Radiation
Date:
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 07:10:49 -0700
From:
Christopher Beaver
To:
note@macintouch.com
Dear Friends:
I have grown increasingly concerned about the hazards of electromagnetic
radiation from wireless telecommunication devices of all types. For the
past two years I have been involved in efforts to regulate microwave
transmitters from cellular phone antennas and television broadcast
towers. Especially in technical circles such as those developing and
promoting wireless telecommunications such concerns are generally
pooh-poohed as "bad science." People may not have actually done research
paper by paper but they've certainly heard or read that such concerns
are a crock of bull.
It has been my experience, however, that there is a significant and
growing body of scientific literature suggesting all is not well. One
noteworthy published commentary by Dr. John Goldsmith, formerly head of
California's air quality research laboratory and now a professor of
epidemiology in Israel, has even been entitled, "The End of Innocence
for Radiofrequency Exposures."
The struggle to limit and regulate cellular phone antenna exposures to
the general public seems to me to be the biggest environmental
grassroots movement in the United States at this moment. If this
statement seems overly sweeping, it may very well be because news about
this struggle has not been as widely published by newspapers and
television stations as might be warranted. One reason would be an effort
not to alienate advertisers, including companies such as Macintosh which
now seems poised to promote further unregulated radiofrequency
exposures. A second would be that if public concern is raised over
cellular phone antennas, this concern could easily grow to include
broadcast television antennas. And many major newspapers, as here in San
Francisco, also own television stations.
Therefore, this note is intended to sound a lone voice of dissent. I do
not find the Macintosh embrace of wireless an exciting possibility. I
see it as one more source of radiofrequency radiation about which I will
not be informed. It will add to what is being called the "blue world" of
elecetromagnetic pollution. The effects from any given exposure on a
population would probably be small. The effects on any individual would
probably be small. But for the person affected they could be
catastrophic, including headaches, sleep disorders and continuing to
childhood leukemias and adverse effects on the immune system.
Of course, in this note, except for the John Goldsmith study, I haven't
cited any sources. I will cite one more comprehensive review of the
scientific literature, "Potential and Actual Adverse Effects of
Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation at levels near and below 2
microwatts per centimeter squared," by Dr. Neil Cherry, Department of
Natural Resources Engineering, Lincoln University, New Zealand.
Finally, I am a daily reader of Macintouch. I love my computer. I am
aware that many people are concerned about electromagnetic exposures
from my computer screen and the circuitry that powers it. I have taken
steps to measure and minimize my exposure including distance from the
screen, a radiation shield (for what it may be worth), etc. If it seems
that my concerns are those of a crackpot, perhaps that's exactly what
the telecommunication industry and its public relations would like you
to believe.
Thank you for considering this communication that may seem to come from
left field.
[End of quoted letter.]
All for now,
Christopher Beaver
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