Subject:  The study that counts (guru).
Date:     Fri, 22 Dec 2000 064735 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Hi everybody:

I have looked at the two recent studies (in JAMA and in the NEJM) which 
give the cell phones a clean bill of health with regard to brain cancer 
risk.  Of the two, it seems to me that the NEJM (Iskip) study is the 
more deserving of attention.  

I provide the direct link below.  And I encourage all of my readers to 
follow that link and read the Iskip study.

It says to me -- that **normal** cell phone usage MAY NOT increase the 
brain cancer risk.....  Or, alternatively, that the increase (if any) 
is barely measurable.

It also says to me, rather clearly, that this study provides NO information 
about the risk that the "heavy user" may experience.  It does NOT give a 
"go ahead" -- in other words -- to those teen agers (and politicians?? 
like Synar or Atwater) who "live" in a world of high intensity, prolonged 
exposure with their phones virtually "glued" to their ears over a period 
of weeks or months......

It also says to me, very clearly, that the study provides NO information 
about the newest cell phone technology -- the "digital" as opposed to the 
"analogue" cell phones.

Assuming, therefore, that this study survives the intense examination it 
is sure to be given by other scientists in the field, it **by no means** 
upholds a "forget about any Blue World EMF hazards to health" conclusion 
-- as it is likely to be represented (to the public) by the Moulders and 
Adairs of the world.......

I urge all of you to study it carefully, so that you may be aware of the
misrepresentations of its findings that -- in my view -- are likely to 
occur in the public information domain.

The Iskip study link:
http://www.nejm.org/content/inskip/1.asp

Cheerio.......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

It is better to light a single candle
  than to curse the darkness.....

WEBSITE:  http://emfguru.com

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