Subject:  (Lundquist) Epi studies of cellular phone users (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 21 Jan 1999 100856 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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......This is one to remember......guru.....

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:57:17
From: marjlundquist@usa.net
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Epi studies of cellular phone users

Roy, Arlene Kirsch recently commented, with respect to the recent Cape Cod meeting on wireless telecommunication transmitters, that at this meeting Peter Valberg cited a study by Kenneth Rothman (she wrote Rothberg, but that is an error) who is at Boston University and who has published a study of cellular phone users; the Rothman study has shown no effects.  It was published in the periodical EPIDEMIOLOGY, of which Rothman is the editor.  Arlene expressed her opinion regarding the Rothman study as follows:  "The problem is that the study does not differentiate between analog and digital technology based phones and therefore is useless in my opinion."
Last summer I read Rothman's epidemiology study and found a number of problems with it, including the one that Arlene mentioned.  I wrote a letter to the editor of EPIDEMIOLOGY criticizing this study and submitted it for publication.  My letter was finally accepted, and I am told that it is scheduled to be published in the May 1999 issue of EPIDEMIOLOGY.  The criticism that Arlene made is a major one included in my letter.
Once my letter is published, then this criticism will have been published in the scientific literature, so it will be a part of that literature, and will be available for citation by others. -- Marjorie
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Marjorie Lundquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
P. O. Box 11831
Milwaukee, WI  53211-0831  USA
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