Subject:  (Ferguson) CBC Fifth estate, cell phones (fwd)
Date:     Wed, 10 Feb 1999 034936 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness... 
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:39:53 -0800
From: Jim Ferguson 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: CBC Fifth estate

The following is taken from the CBC web site....
http://www.tv.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/extlnk.cgi?/fifth/

 This week on the fifth estate --

"Cone of Silence"

A lot of the inventions of the late 20th century, things we use everyday--
like cell phones, for example--are so handy, so useful, we sometimes wonder
how we ever lived without them. Cell phones, in particular, have become so
much a part of modern life, that we just assume that somebody's made sure
that they're safe. But in the case of cell phones, that assumption is dead
wrong. There's still a lot we don't know about how cell phones, held close
to the head for long periods, might affect us--after all, there ARE powerful
electronic transmitters, and they've been linked in some studies with
possible DNA damage and other problems . Health Canada recently announced
that IT was going to investigate cell phone safety. But for the most part,
there's been a kind of Cone of Silence over the issue, and that's just the
way the industry likes it. In fact, the cell phone industry has conducted a
sophisticated, and so far very successful, campaign, to accentuate the
positive and silence anyone who raises the possibility that their product
might have a problem.

the fifth estate will be re-broadcast Sundays at 3 p.m. on CBC Newsworld

If you're looking to purchase a tape or transcript of a particular
installment, please call 1-800-363-1281.

The email address to contact the cbc fifth estate is
http://www.tv.cbc.ca/fifth/contact.shtml perhaps they could be persuaded to
make it available to community or PBS TV - throughout the US and Canada.  If
enough people make a request for a tape or transcript it may cause them to
think that they are on to something hot and heavy and cause them to even dig
further.

Jim Ferguson
Victoria, B.C.

'...tis better to ask a question and appear ignorant for 5 minutes than to
not ask a question and be ignorant the rest of your life..."




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