Subject: "What's New" for Dec 10, 1999] (fwd)
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 160203 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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........Bob Park's statements always seem to reflect the views of someone
who could be a hired propagandist for the electrical industry..... Don't
they???
Nuff said......
While you are at it, Bill, you probably ought to send Parks the
Henshaw study.... He seems to have over looked any mention of it....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:16:09 -0600
From: "Bill P. Curry"
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: [Fwd: What's New for Dec 10, 1999]
Roy,
I sent the quoted message below to Dr. Robert Park to rebut his
statements in "What's New" an electronically distributed column published
by the American Physical Society.
You and your readers may be interested in seeing his
cynical reporting of this issue and my reaction to the same.
>
> Dear Bob,
> I am a semi-retired former staff member at Argonne National Lab. Since 1994,
> I have been consulting in such fields as electron/ion beam physics, electron
> optical aspects of x-ray tubes, and other areas of electromagnetics. I am
> writing you because of your What's New column for Dec. 10, 1999 and because I
> am vitally concerned about health and safety aspects of both power line
> radiation and RF/microwave radiation.
> I cannot believe that you read the actual reports, rather than just the press
> commentaries, concerning the epidemiological studies of power lines and
> instances of childhood leukemia. The Toronto study released last June showed
> strong correlations between measured magnetic fields and acute lymphoblastic
> leukemia - most strongly in children under six. The study also showed the
> incorrectness of relying on surrogates (such as wire size, power consumption,
> etc.) instead of using actual field measurements, some of which were obtained
> by magnetic field monitors worn by active children. Please don't perpetuate
> the errors of the press of forming opinions based on each other's writing,
> instead of reading the actual papers. I have copies of the two University of
> Toronto papers, should you be unable to find a copy. Let me know if you would
> like me to send these papers to you. I believe you would have a different
> impression of these two papers if you read them yourself.
>
> What's New wrote:
> >
> > WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 10 Dec 99 Washington, DC
> >
> > 4. EMF: THE SOLUTION TO ELECTROPHOBIA MAY BE TO MOVE TO THE UK.
> > Massive studies of exposure to residential magnetic fields in the
> > United States (WN 4 Jul 97) and Canada (WN 30 Apr 99) failed to
> > uncover any trace of a link to childhood leukemia. Now, an even
> > larger study in the United Kingdom has been released. No link
> > was found between EMF exposure and ANY form of childhood cancer.
> > Will this finally bring the 20-year witch hunt to an end? We
> > should be so lucky. Those who seem determined to find a problem
> > insist the result is not relevant here. Power is supplied at 220
> > volts in Europe, rather than 110, so exposure of British children
> > to EMF is only half that of their North American counterparts.
> > Nor does the study shed any light on why Brits drink warm beer.
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