Subject:  Notes on the Blue World (Beaver)..
Date:     Fri, 18 Aug 2000 060040 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Subject: Notes on the Blue World
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:21:14 -0700
From: Christopher Beaver 
Reply-To: idgfilms@earthlink.net
To: guru@emfguru.com
References: <397328FB.53108B9C@emfguru.com>

Dear Roy:

>From the Associated Press, an article by Cadonna M. Peyton, describes in
approving terms how the Blue World feeds on itself. Her story lauds the
increasing use of wireless headsets to amplify the voices of teachers in
the classroom:

"'It's long overdue,' said Ken Ullrich, a clinical audiologist in
Wenatchee, Wash. 'I know that classroom amplification will do for
children's listening and learning what classroom lighting did for
children's seeing....

"'My stand is that sound-field amplification will be in every classroom
by 2005,' [audiologist Carol] Flexer said. 'I firmly believe having
high-quality sound in the classroom will have a very positive influence
in education....

"...one question seems to linger. After so many years of teaching
without the use of microphones, why are they needed now?

"Experts say the answer is simple: The world is much noisier now than it
was 20 years ago.

"Ventilation systems, lawn mowers, street traffic, offset recess times
and the overcrowding of schools are just some things that contribute to
noisier classrooms."

In relationship to this article and the recent debate in this forum over
which profession sets or should set standards for radiofrequency and
microwave exposures, my comment to whomever sets these standards is for
shame. The standard setters never seem to be forthcoming on emerging
technologies or what the technologists have planned for us four, five or
ten years down the line. Who could have imagined the need for
amplification in the classroom if not the standard-setters. But they
never seem to consider the blue world in which we are assaulted daily by
new wireless technologies, where actual exposures are rarely if ever
monitored, and where sources of wireless exposure need not be revealed
to the public.

Furthermore, in my opinion, the current crop of standard-setters are
weighed down and impeached by conflicts of interest. It was pointed out
by Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer in a paper given yesterday at a symposium in
Bethesda, Maryland on medical conflicts of interest that, "Conflict of
interest is associated with intentional bias in the conduct and
publication of drug trials. Disclosure is not enough."

I wonder which is the more lucrative industry, drugs or wireless telecommunications.

Best always, looking forward to TGIF,

Christopher Beaver


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