Subject:  (Philips) (Markov) Funding (etc) (fwd)
Date:     Sat, 5 Dec 1998 195617 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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........Alasdair, the obvious minimum "avoidance" measures you recommend
below will not just happen.....Certainly not in the U.S.......Unless some
form of sanction ("regulation") enforces them......Keep in mind too,
Alasdair,  that U.S. owned and managed power companies are right now in
the process of buying up the British power industry.......guru.......

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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 22:18:34
From: Alasdair Philips 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: (Markov) Funding (etc)

Roy
What we need is the Buddhist "rightful path" - a rightful balance between
the various sides.

Public funding is FAR from being unlimited and much academic research still
gets done in ways which are a complete waste of money - especially much of
that done by regulatory authorities. It is naive to think that we can ask
for adequate funding from public funds for everything that needs doing.

In many ways I think the evidence is already in that we should be
precautionary about our relationship with EMFs. The evidence is strong
enough for right minded people to say "keep high power and high voltage
lines away from people" and minimise EMFs from building wiring. I know for
a fact that some US based multinationals have already been (for the last 3
years) specifying low EMF design for new buildings (eg 0.1 microtesla [1mG]
at the workplace and 0.2uT [2mg] in corridors, toilets, etc) - I have this
in writing from a manager friend at a major engineering consultancy. THIS
is the rightful way forward. As would be insisting that cell-base-stations
were at least 500 metres from residences, schools, etc.

These changes do not cost much - a tiny fraction of what would be needed to
"prove" EMF adverse health effects. In fact I can not see us getting to the
position of "proving" EMF effects for many, many, years. Even then, as an
Assistant Director of the UK NRPB stated a few years ago 'Taken at face
value EMF may be responsible for 20% of childhood leukaemia. Even if EMFs
were responsible for 20% of childhood cancers, as childhood cancer is a
rare occurrence it would not justify the socioeconomic chages necessary to
reduce eposures near power lines'.

This is the kind of pathological bullshit we have come to expect from those
paid to look after our interests by regulation.  Yet it is not just their
fault - we all need to take individual responsibility for our own, and our
families, health. It the UK it has just been announced that the number of
teenage girls regularly smoking has risen from 1 in 5 to 1 in 3 !!!!!!
For @#$!'s sake what is wrong with society that we can allow this?
It makes EMFs pale into insignificance - in the UK if these women continue
to smoke it will result in well over 50,000 smoking related deaths a year.
Yet society stands by and allows cigarette companies to pedal their death
still.
Yes, I know packets now state "Smoking Kills", etc., but these women
obviously can't relate personally to that.

More EMF research will not provide the answer - we need a re-visioning of
society - a holistic view of living that excludes the Monsanto's of this
world.  We are killing our world and as Chief Seathl wrote "whatever
befalls the Earth, befalls the sons of the Earth". 

We are coming up to the Christian and Pagan time of the re-birth of hope.
Let us personally take this to heart in our 1999 New Year resolution to
change what we can.

Goodwill to all well-meaning people.
Alasdair




At 02:47 03/12/98 -0600, Roy L. Beavers wrote:
>Hi everybody:
> ... snipped ...
>(2)  But, his statement reflects the situation as it is being seen by
>many BEMS members.  i.e.,  "Of course, we are being financed by industry/
>government.  There is no other source!!!"  (Which is also true, of course,
>of virtually all research in the U.S.)
>
>(3)  That's the problem!!!  And BEMS (like the whole of the EMF research
>community) has 'rationalized' that situation for so long that they have
>lost sight of the extent to which their "findings, public pronouncements,"
>etc., (and sometimes the research of their members as well!) are being
>compromised "spinned" to protect their funding providers....  
>
>I ask the members and friends of BEMS to examine this aspect very
>seriously!!! I believe that a great deal of HARMFUL 'rationalization' is
>taking place.....  (This statement comes after almost six years of very
>close observation of the situation on my part.)
>
>(4)  If, after such an introspective examination, the members of BEMS
>(which means perhaps 75% of the EMF research community) come to the
>conclusion that EMF 'science' must have total scientific independence --
>IN THE PUBLICS INTEREST -- I ask you to "lay out that case" to Congress!!
>Put your reservations on the record!  Explain just exactly WHY it is so
>important that ***science be free-ed*** from its present dependence upon
>research funding that (presently) is being provided by the VERY SAME
>VESTED INTERESTS who are the "targets" of the research!!!  (The CTIA
>example is an obvious and SAD case in point!!!)
>
>...snipped...
>
>I wish to ENCOURAGE BEMS to take a STRONGER leadership role in NOT ONLY
>"soliciting" the funding that the science community desperately needs to
>continue EMF research ... but also to take a leadership role in
>formulating a NEW "management system" for that funding....
>
>My suggestion some time ago (inspired by a similar suggestion from Stewart
>Fist of this list, Australia) is that the NEW "management system" MUST
>be totally removed from decisions (or influence) by the 'vested interest'
>government/industry "combination" we have seen in the recent past --
>probably this means we should have a "citizen" commission of some
>sort that would exercise management CONTROL.....  (NO!  I am not looking
>for a job!!!)
>
>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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