Subject:  Carlo's response to credibility issue (Whitehead).
Date:     Sat, 06 Jan 2001 103637 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Subject: health problems with cell phones
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:17:47 -0500
From: "whitehead" 
To: "Roy Beavers" 

Hi Roy:

I find Dr. Carlo's response very interesting - especially this line:

"The industry's strategy is to create arguments over nuances so that the
impression is left that we do not know much about these health effects.
That is untrue.  We know enough to be concerned, plain and simple."

That is certainly true about the industry's strategy and it seems to work
sometimes.  They seem to be working especially hard to discredit Dr. Carlo.

As mentioned by Jesse Berst, Editorial Director of ZDNet AnchorDesk
in a recent e-mail from Dawn Hill to you, no one knows if cell phones cause
cancer or any other health problem. The reason, it seems to me, is that the
industry doesn't want anyone to know.  There is no dispute either by
independent researchers or those of the telecommunications industry that
radiation can present a health problem.  The only controversy is over the
exact amount of radiation that causes harm.  Since this amount varies with
time as well as from species to species and even from person to person, the
industry has thus far been able to make the issue seem confused and
uncertain and simply address the problem by calling for more research.  So
far they have managed to ward off regulation much the same way the tobacco
industry did in the early days of that research.

There is really no excuse for the government not to control this industry
and set standards well on the safe side for phones and towers both until
more exacting studies have been completed, particularly concerning long term
effects.  Maybe if everyone bombarded their representatives with their
concerns, we could eventually get them to act.

Richard Whitehead
rewhitehead@netzero.net






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