Subject: "The End of Innocence for RF"....by Dr. John Goldsmith....
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 120347 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
A week or so ago, I received from Dr. Goldsmith his recently published
paper, "TV Broadcast Towers and Cancer: The end of innocence for
radio frequency exposures." (American Journal of Industrial Medicine
32:689-692, 1997)
It concerns the health effects of RF exposure, particularly emanating from
broadcast antennas such as TV towers (or perhaps cell phone relay towers
-- guru). Though it is somewhat "technical" in content, it is quite
readable by the layman and I should think that all who have an interest in
this aspect of the EMF matter would want to have a copy in their "library."
Certainly so, if you are engaged in "combat" with a TV or cell tower
utility.....
I suggest that it may be the best paper produced so far that summarizes
the "RF exposure" issue -- keeping in mind that there has been (so far)
perhaps one-tenth as much research on the RF as the ELF.
I'm going to quote only a few passages, then hope that many of you will
get the paper and study it for yourself.....
"Many recent epidemiological studies of ELF effects have led to a
general agreement that there may be some effect on childhood leukemia.
The evidence has been exceptionally well studied in Sweden, where
authorities have concluded that a program of 'prudent avoidance' was
justified."......... //skip//
"Three articles published in December 1996 and January 1997,
reporting epidemiological studies in the United Kingdom and Australia,
have changed our perspective. [vis-a-vis the RF "innocence" -- guru]
Taken together, they suggest that exposures of residents living near
(within 5 km) broadcast facilities may have small increases in leukemia."
.........//skip//
"Each study, alone, has its limitations. The Australian authors
conclude that they have found an association between residence near TV
towers and increased incidence of childhood leukemia. Increased childhood
leukemia was found in both of the other studies, although statistically
not significantly so. There is stronger evidence for increased adult
than for childhood leukemia in the British studies, and suggestive
evidence of bladder and skin cancer is also found.
"Taken together, these studies tend to support one another, as does
the unpublished Honolulu study, which also shows increased cancer and
leukemia near towers.".........
I won't quote any more. The paper mainly develops the case stated in the
quotes above. I hope many of you will obtain this paper and read it for
yourself......
For my own comment in this instance -- I am struck by the fact that SO
MUCH is known and is becoming known in the "science" circles about the
potential hazards of EMF at various frequencies (not just ELF or RF), but
that information is not being circulated to the public!!! And folks, this
has been going on for some YEARS now!!!!
(During which, the main direction of the industries concerned has been to
redouble their efforts to build their towers and power lines before the
uninformed public "catches on" to what is going on....)
It is our governments (as well as the industries concerned, of course)
who are responsible for this "black-out" of public information..... As
to the failure of the press ... guru previously stated his case on the
fact that we no longer have a "free" press ... in a message that appears
on his web-site, EMFguru#13-97, "Sayonara...."
Hope you will take a look at that, too.......
THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!!!!!
Cheerio........
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
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