Subject:  Re Dear Mr. Mild (fwd)
Date:     Sat, 21 Feb 1998 062320 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:

Dr. Kjell Hansson Mild is truly one of the world's most knowledgeable
EMF authorities.  He is a past president of the Bio-Electro-Magnetics
Society (BEMS).  BEMS is an association of researchers (worldwide) who
are studying the possible EMF health effects.  Actually, they also include
in their membership many scientists who are studying the potential useful
techniques for utilizing the EMF biological interactions to promote
healing.  BEMS has an internet address <>.  There you may also find the results of many of the BEMS
researchers study reports.

I have met Dr. Mild at various of the EMF meetings.  My inclination is
that he is to be trusted to uphold high standards of scientific inquiry,
not likely to let himself become a "lackey" of industry. I do commend his
being candid when confronted by questions from the public as he is in the
comments below.

In the following message, which some of you have already received, Dr.
Mild is answering questions posed to him by a fellow Swede, Mr. Leif
Sodergren, of the Scandia Corporation.  (U.S. spelling.)  Recently, Dr.
Mild was quoted in some Swedish news reports which are the object of the
following questions and answers.....

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...............................................

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:11:13 +0100 (MET)
From: Kjell Hansson Mild 
To: "LEIF S.DERGREN" 
Subject: Re: Dear Mr. Mild

>
>Dear Mr. Mild,
>I have from friends abroad been told that you have retracted
>what was reported by the very respectable newspaper Svenska
>Dagbladet (see below). I have heard that the facts have to be
>re-evaluated and that the report has been postponed. This
>sounds indeed very ominous.
>1. Is the re-evaluation and postponement true?

The story as told in Sv D was NOT true. The reporter did misunderstand my
explantions to her. I told her the reasons WHY we did the study and not the
results from the study. The "why" is that many of the callers were GSM
users with long time on the phone every day and not the ones using the
phone less than 2 min /day.

At the Oxford meeting we got very many suggestions from the ref group to
improvement of our analysis of the data and of course we are listening to
these advices. Therefore we have to perform further analys before we can
say that we are ready. It is a very large material and difficult to oversee
and therefore the analys and its outcome is also complex and we are trying
real hard to get this as correct as possible.

>2. Has any pressure been exerted on you?

No attempt what so ever  have been made.

>3. Why can you not trust the conclusions you initially drew?
>Were they not based on interviews with a number of mobile phone
>users?

I have not drawn any conclusions from the study.The results are not ready
yet. Again what I have said over and over again is what people have been
telling me when they have called and talked about their symptoms.

>4. Is it true that you as a government employee has the duty by
>law to officially register any project you work on and that no
>such registration has taken place? If it has been registered,
>what is the registration number?

I do not have the registration number here in my home ( this is written
Friday evening after having opened the mail ( this was one of 21) after a
three day trip to Stockholm.) . To find out the number you have to ask the
"registrator" at our office in Solna.
>
>Not too long ago, foreign contacts reported that you denied the
>qoutes attributed to you in an Aftonbladet article regarding
>SAR values, an article written by Cristofer Fager. When
>questioned, Fager confirmed that you had indeed approved the
>article in its entirety.

We have ourselves never measured any SAR values. This was done by Niels
Kuster. Therefore this part of the article is not about my statements. I
have not denied any of the comments in the article that were attributed to
me as I recall it now.

>5. Are we to think, that in the instance of the Svenska
>Dagbladet, we have yet another case of a reporter not citing
>you properly? Or what is going on?

The reporter from SvD was very new to the whole area of SAR and fields and
I took a great deal of time to try to tell her the problems we are dealing
with here. Obviously I was not successful.
>
>Other government agencies are getting phonecalls from concerned
>mobile phone users who ask what to do about the symptoms they
>feel such as heat sensation, headaches, memory loss. It is for
>this reason we we expect clear answers a minimum of retractions
>and vacillation from you, one of the experts who are supposed
>to guide us with the truth.

We are working as hard as we can under the existing circumstances with the
analyses and as soon as we are ready we will go public with the results.
You should have no fear in that we are involved in any cover up story here.
But please you must understand that this analyses takes time and that the
study is done jointly with our collegues in Norway. To make everything as
correct as possible we have an international reference group appointed and
although this makes things a little bit slower it should be helpful for the
quality of the results.

I hope that this clarifies your questions.
Yours sincerely,
Kjell Hansson Mild




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Kjell Hansson Mild
National Institute for Working Life
P. O. Box 7654, S-907 13 Umeå, Sweden
Tel: +46  90 786 50 98, Fax: +46  90 786 65 08
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