Subject:  Suggestion for activism in US Senate (Neil Cherry) (fwd)
Date:     Fri, 20 Feb 1998 155812 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:02:14 -0500
From: Gary Brown 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: FPL,Cell Towers,rats

Hi everybody,
I am from Florida and received the FPL newsletter.  As Ms. Bergman can tell you
my cause is the cell towers going up over the schools here in Palm Beach
County.  However, wherever I go, people intertwine power lines with cell
towers.
Interestingly enough, I took  John's suggestion and called the EMF Hotline.  I
spoke to a Mr. Cavender who said he was a toxicologist.  Excuse my naivety, but
is a toxicologist trained in EMF and MW/RF?
The brochure he  wanted to send me was written in 1995 by the Department of
Energy. Is this the Department that regulates the powerline industry. Just like
the FCC regulating the Telecom. industry!  I'm sure not a shocker to all of
"Roy Beaver" fans.
He totally downplayed any evidence of leukemia and powerlines.  He even told me
of a new study which Mr. Beavers cites will be out soon, "RAPID" performed by
our wonderful and honest government and the NIEHS.  He said they studied rats
and EMF for two years and found a NEGATIVE correlation between powerlines,
leukemia, and rats.  That means the mice who were less exposed got more
leukemia.
Being a cell tower activist I immediately referred to the Repacholi study where
the rats who were exposed to RF frequencies of cell phones for 20 minutes a day
had a two fold increase in lymphoma, BUT the telecom industry said you could
not draw any conclusions from this study because it was done on rats and not on
humans.

Now our government is going to use a rat study to determine the safety of
powerlines for humans.

I asked the hotline how can you draw any conclusions when the study was only
done for two years and not on humans?  Answer:  Would you want to participate
in a controlled EMF study with EMF all around you?  (I am every day--and I
don't want anymore!)
Enjoy reading your info. Mr. Beavers.
I appreciate your tenacity and passion for the issue.
Sincerely,
Candice--Palm Beach County, Florida



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