Subject: Moulder on power lines and cancer (Statham)..
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 172843 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Hi everybody:
Here is the Moulder "propaganda" piece I mentioned earlier.....
How many errors can you find in the following??? Including errors
of omission or dissembling the facts??? (Please submit to guru....
If you find less than a half dozen, don't bother..... I don't want THAT
MANY messages on it.....)
Cheerio.... (Thanks, Linda -- hope you get back to the friend who sent it
to you and let her know what comes out of this......)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:32:47 -0500
From: Linda Statham
To: Roy Beavers
Subject: Fw: [Fwd: Powerlines and Cancer (Pointer to FAQs)]
----- Original Message -----
From: Abby Jordan
To: Linda & Ben Statham
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:23 AM
Subject: [Fwd: Powerlines and Cancer (Pointer to FAQs)]
> Hi Linda - found this on a newsgroup I am on and thought you would like
> to see it, if you haven't already.
> What's new?
> Dr. Fason tells me the county has an agreement with URP so your grant
> can move forward. Hope so!
> hope you're doing great . . .
> Abby
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Powerlines and Cancer (Pointer to FAQs)
> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 16:19:18 -0600
> From: jmoulder@mcw.edu (John Moulder)
> Reply-To: jmoulder@mcw.edu (John Moulder)
> Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin
> Newsgroups:
> sci.environment,misc.industry.utilities.electric,misc.consumers.house
> Followup-To: sci.med.physics
>
>
> Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Power-Frequency Fields (EMF) and
> Cancer
>
> Last-modified: 10-Jan-00
> Version: 6.5.0
> Author: jmoulder@mcw.edu
>
> **Summary**
>
> Questions and Answers on the connection between power lines, electrical
> occupations and cancer: discussion of the biophysics of interactions
> with
> EM sources, summaries of the laboratory and human studies, information
> on
> standards, and an annotated bibliography.
>
> Most of the concern about power lines ("EMF") and cancer stems from
> studies of people living near power lines and people working in
> "electrical" occupations. Some of these studies appear to show a weak
> association between exposure to power-frequency magnetic fields and the
> incidence of some types of cancer.
>
> However, epidemiological studies done in recent years show little
> evidence
> that power lines are associated with an increase in cancer, laboratory
> studies have shown little evidence of a link between power-frequency
> fields and cancer, and a connection between power line fields and cancer
> remains biophysically implausible.
>
> A recent review by a prominent group of scientists at the U.S. National
> Academy of Science concluded that:
> "No conclusive and consistent evidence shows that exposures to
> residential electric and magnetic fields produce cancer, adverse
> neurobehavioral effects, or reproductive and developmental
> effects."
> Similarly, a 1999 review by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
> concluded that:
> "The scientific evidence suggesting that [power-frequency
> electromagnetic field] exposures pose any health risk is
> weak.".
>
> Moreover, the largest studies of childhood leukemia and power lines ever
> done reported in 1997 and 1999 that they could find no significant
> evidence for an association of power lines with childhood leukemia.
>
> Finally, a series of studies have shown what life-time exposure of
> animals
> to power-frequency magnetic fields does not cause cancer.
>
> Overall, most scientists consider the evidence that power line fields
> cause or contribute to cancer to be weak to non-existent.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ** Revisions Notes
> - A large study of powerlines and childhood cancer from the UK,
> and a smaller study of power lines and childhood leukemia from New
> Zealand report that there is no significant association of
> childhood cancer with exposure to power line fields.
> - Two new papers on the "Henshaw" hypothesis that power lines attract
> radon and chemical carcinogens, and three other papers that cast
> further doubt on the hypothesis.
> - A study reporting that neither residential nor occupational
> exposure to power-frequency fields, or both, were associated with
> increased breast cancer.
> - A re-analysis of three recent studies of leukemia and brain cancer in
> electrical utility workers finds a non-significant increase in
> cancer incidence.
> - New studies strengthen the evidence that childhood leukemia has an
> infectious basis. Discussion of this issue and how it affects power
> line studies.
> - A new review on "electrosensitivity".
> - A report that power-frequency magnetic fields cause a decrease in
> heart rate.
> - A study reporting that strong power-frequency fields neither
> caused nor promoted brain cancer in mice.
> - A new study showing the absence of genotoxicity and epigenetic
> activity in cell culture.
> - An additional study reporting that power-frequency fields do not
> affect ODC activity.
> - Further information on charge of scientific fraud in
> biolectromagnetics research.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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