Subject: Roy's EMF statement, "A Blue World"....... (fwd)
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 172050 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
At the end of last week, my good friend and former shipmate, Larry
(of Louisville, KY, USA), asked me the same $64,000 question I have
struggled to answer before. As before, I want to fulfill the
questioners request and keep it short or succinct, but I also want
to be accurate and complete.....
What follows below is my answer to Larry's question, then his message,
then an additional footnote that occurred to me after I had mailed
Larry his answer..... Eventually, maybe, I'll get this right........
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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From: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Roy's EMF statement.....or, "A Blue World".......
Larry:
You asked me to explain my position (on EMF) in two sentences!?!?! This
will be longer than you want. Therefore, I will highlight "important
stuff" thus ****.
I have been closely monitoring this issue now for at least six years --
and actually began to get interested a couple years before that.
<> I routinely attend many of the
national meetings at which the science researchers report the results of
their work -- on average about twice per year. I will next attend an
important meeting in San Antonio in January, sponsored by the National
Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS).
****I am now convinced that the most important basic judgment: that
biological interaction between EMFs (at exposure levels occurring in our
environment) and the human body (cells and tissue, glands, brain neurons,
etc.) is occurring..... is true!
****....And that it has a number of different manifestations, most of
which we now mainly "suspect" rather than "can prove" (the "tip of an
iceberg" analogy)..... (Much more research is needed.)
****But at least two biological "mechanisms" are now rather well proved;
1) the melatonin case which likely leads to some female breast cancers
and perhaps is a factor in childhood leukemia as well. [Indeed, it is
thought that the entire immune system can be affected by the melatonin
disruption which apparently results from EMF interaction at the pineal
gland.]
2) brain tumors (sometimes cancer), though we are not as confident about
what is the "mechanism" causing the illness, we do see that it is
showing strong and consistent epidemiological evidence in certain work
environments.....
3) The Alzheimer's epidemiological evidence is also pretty consistent.
As I say there is good reason to suspect much more, but the research has
not been done.....
The "vested interests" (telecommunications and electrical industry) have
about given up on their denial that these biological interactions are
occurring. "But," they argue, "that doesn't prove that adverse health
consequences are the result."
****To argue that these (now many, many documented) interactions CAN NOT
lead to health problems of the suspected nature (leukemia, cancer,
Alzheimer's, nervous system disorders, etc.) really requires that they
argue against mathematical probabilities.... ALL of this biological
activity, they must argue, is harmless???.... And, they must argue that
it is harmless ... IN SPITE OF the epidemiological evidence which shows,
in effect, the end result damage in the form of cancer, etc.
There are not many of the "serious and knowledgeable scientists" --
looking at this research -- who "buy" that argument anymore....
BUT ... the government's vested interest in this matter is almost as
great as the industries!!!! Between them, they have so far succeeded
in keeping much of this info from the public. (GET ELLEN SUGARMAN'S
BOOK AND READ IT!!!!) What info HAS gotten to the public has been
successfully obfuscated by claims like, "but this hasn't been 'proved'
yet," etc. ...or...."There is much disagreement within the scientific
community, etc." By implication, the public should ignore the "weight
of the evidence" until there is "overwhelming" agreement or "consensus."
..... With industry able to "hire" and "influence" the scientific
judgments ... and with industry's hold on the communications media ...
the kind of "consensus" THEY say we should wait for ... will never
occur!!! IT IS, INDEED, VERY MUCH LIKE THE TOBACCO CASE, twenty or
thirty years ago!!!!]
****Guru says: the issue is certainly NOT ... what we now can say has
been "proved." The issue is: what is the WEIGHT of the evidence telling
us?????
****The weight of the evidence is telling us that we have a really BIG
problem ... and that it is getting bigger ... faster ... as we
actually are "saturating" our environment in a "technological/sales
frenzy" -- of cell phones (and their 140,000 retransmission antennas),
space-based satellites, power lines, TV transmitters, not to mention all
the electronics now in our homes and businesses, etc. [And P.S., there
are some new military projects which dwarf past exposure levels.... The
military of all nations has ALWAYS been a major source of EMF pollution.]
This frenzied growth in EMF exposure, which has no comparable historic
parallel in terms of worldwide pollution, is giving us an "electronic
smog" at more and more frequencies of the EMR spectrum ... and at higher
and higher levels of transmission energy...... If this "stuff" would just
emit a light blue "glow," we would all see that we are now living in a
deep blue world!!!! And it is rapidly getting bluer.... And, contrary to
about one-hundred years of scientific "assumptions," it IS biologically
active!!!! And at least SOME of that biological activity is harmful to
our health......
[An additional "Blue World" footnote has been added after Larry's message
below. -- guru]
Industry (and the government???) want us to wait until we have determined
what are the parameters of "health-affecting" and "non-health-affecting"
exposure? They want us to wait until we can show "how" the damage is
being done?? Worst of all, they want us to show that the human "cost"
of NOT dealing with this problem is "worth" the economic "cost" that will
be incurred in dealing with it??? (That's the old, "if you install safety
measures in the mine you will drive up the cost of coal"... argument.)
In short, they want us to wait until virtually all the details have been
"filled in" before we try to do anything about this (now virtually
certain) health menace......
******Hey, Larry, we don't have that much time!!!!!!!
Sorry, Larry, I've never been able to reduce this to "a couple sentences."
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...............................................
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Larrosen wrote:
> Dear Roy,
> In just a couple of sentences could you enlighten me as to just what your
> strong beliefs are as far as risks to humans from your studies. I would
> appreciate it.
> Best wishes to you both for a great Christmas...
> Best regards,
> Larry
>
.........It's a Blue World.......[footnote added since the above
transpired.]
In 1985, Dr. Robert O Becker, M.D., published his (now) classic study:
THE BODY ELECTRIC, Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life......
ISBN --0-688-06971-1.
On page 275 of the most recent edition, you will find:
"The human species has changed its electromagnetic background more
than any other aspect of the environment. For example, the density of
radio waves around us is now 100 million or 200 million times the natural
level reaching us from the sun. Nor is there any end in sight. When
superconducting cables are introduced, they'll increase the field strength
around power lines by a factor of ten or twenty....." [Written in 1985.
We now have the "superconductors." -- guru].......//skip//......
"A few years ago most investigators believed that each wavelength
["frequency"] interacted mainly with objects comparable to it in size.
This was a comforting notion that theoretically limited each frequency
to one type of effect and predicted that really troublesome problems for
humans would come from only one portion of the spectrum -- the FM band.
Now, however, we know there are primary effects on all life forms at ELF
frequencies, and in other parts of the spectrum there can be consequences
for specific systems at 'any' level, from the subatomic to the entire
biosphere as a unit.......//skip//........
".......There's often no direct relationship between dose and
effect, however; a low power density sometimes does things that a higher
one does not..........//skip//........
"In a sense, the entire population of the world is willy-nilly
the subject of a giant experiment....."
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------Dr. Becker was (is) an M.D. who got "lost" and became a scientist,
in the truest sense of the word. He pursued the truth even when it led
to major confrontation with the "establishment" (medical, scientific or
political). He was eventually "pushed out" of the research community.
I believe he is now living in retirement in New York?????
When the final chapter of the EMF saga is written, Robert Becker's
contribution will loom as large as any. I have previously stated that
I see this subject as the most important science event since
E = mc(squared). It is that because of the really 'huge' window of
knowledge (and, hopefully, understanding) it opens into the vistas both of
physics and biology -- and the 'relationship' of the two. Before Robert
Becker, only the Russians (in "modern" times) had peered thru that window.
If you get hold of his book be sure you read about the 'Soviet' activities
in EMF at least two decades before U.S. science even acknowledged its
existence. As he tells you, they used that knowledge to direct a
campaign of EMF signals against the employees of the U.S Embassy in
Moscow. Two Ambassadors died of cancer, perhaps as a consequence of this
Soviet EMF activity. More to the point, adverse health effects were also
documented with regard to other employees as well. The health-effects
data was "collected" (not very thoroughly) by the U.S. government, but
much of that data has mysteriously disappeared........
It is my view that he should be seriously considered for the Nobel Prize
for his pioneering work in the EMF field, though that was admittedly a
"sideline" in his ground breaking, controversial career. The EMF saga is
going to be so big and so important -- Larry -- that it will produce
more than one Nobel winner, I am sure......
Cheerio.......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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