Subject: Propaganda effects of Linet "study"......
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 083221 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
Dr. Ed Maxey's message (below) reminds us again of the substantial
propaganda impact of the Linet "study." That's what it was ... and
what it was intended to be -- a propaganda study. (To obtain his
attachment, please e-mail him direct.)
Given the 'corrected' new character the Linet study has received since, in
the numerous "post mortem" analyses, if NCI had any sense of a
"scientific" responsibility, they would publicly withdraw it or "redefine"
it in the fashion it now is recognized by the EMF community: it IN FACT,
CORROBORATES earlier research (by literally 'scores' of studies) that
have found a link between power line EMF exposure and childhood
cancer......
That, in fact, is the judgment of the EMF RAPID group which studied it's
data exhaustively and will soon be published.
In the meantime, my advice to all is TALK ABOUT it!!!! Shine the light
of scientific "disapprobation" on it to the maximum extent that you
can..... (There is plenty of "ammunition" in the last issue of
MICROWAVE NEWS.)
Perhaps the shame of that exposure will make it unlikely that NCI (or
anyone else) will want to try that sort of thing again......
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 06:54:41 -0500
From: Edward Maxey
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Dear WHAT'S NEW EDITOR:
The following came to me via recent email.
> 2. EMF: HEALTH PANEL EXHUMES REMAINS OF POWER-LINE CONTROVERSY.
> Exactly one year ago the National Cancer Institute released the
> results of an exhaustive seven-year study that found no link
> between exposure to EMF and childhood leukemia (WN 4 Jul 97). An
> editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine declared, "It is
> time to stop wasting our research resources." Most government
> agencies agreed, and cut funding for research. Last week, a group
> of scientific experts, most of whom had staked their reputations
> on such a link, sorted through the detritus and announced they
> had detected signs of life. The panel, assembled by the National
> Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, voted 19-9 to class
> EMF as "a possible carcinogen." While acknowledging the risk to
> be "quite small compared to many other public health risks," the
> panel chair declared that the government should provide research
> funds for serious-minded scientists -- like those on the panel.
One may read the Linet study alluded to and find that 267 out of 624
ALL cases were from abodes of <0.65 milligauss. If 0.65 mG were the
median for homes in the United States the probability of this
distribution appearing by chance is one in 5,570.
EPRI's (Electric Power Research Institute) 1000 home study determined
that the United States median 60 Hz magnetic field exposure in homes
is 0.5 mG.
This indicates a greater than 5,570 to one probability of 60 Hz magnetic
fields are causal to childhood leukemia.
This physician would like to see those in the physics community
explaining net current controls to our government. Such devices
could eliminate most residential 60 Hz magnetic fields.
Attached is a photograph of such a device on an underground
rural distribution cable in Texas.
Respectfully,
E. Stanton Maxey, M.D.
childhood leukmia.
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