Subject: As others see us..... (guru)..
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 111337 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Hi everybody:
I forward below a short news item about how the WHO (World
Health Organization) ranks the quality of U.S. health versus
the $$$$$$ spent ... and versus the rest of the world....
Many of my American readers are likely to be surprised at how
poorly we come out. I guess the item does not surprise me
(and caught my attention) because I come upon it right after
my return from Europe, where I attended a National Meeting on
"Cell Tower Safety" in Australia and then the 22nd Annual
Meeting of the BioElectroMagnetic Society (BEMS) in Munich,
Germany.....
When I was interviewed by the French TV-special producer in
Munich, I found myself answering that the event which impressed
me most about the BEMS meeting was the **dominant presence of the
non-U.S. scientists at the meeting.** Not only were the contributions
and presentations of the non-Americans much greater in number than
in the past, they were by and large among the most important in
advancing our knowledge about possible EMF/EMR hazards.
Work that is being done by the likes of Alan Preece of the U.K., or
Stanislaw Szmigielski of Poland, or Youri Grigoriev of Russia, or
A. Korenstein of Israel, or H. Yaguchi of Japan. The latter, for
example, perhaps presented one of the most "earth shaking" papers
that was offered ... with his "Effects of Extremely Low Frequency
Magnetic Fields on Chromosomal Aberrations." I quote from the
conclusions of this last paper: "It has been considered that ELFMF
does not cause DNA strand breaks directly. Our results suggest that
exposure to high-density ELFMF may affect the DNA synthetic and post
replication repair processes, resulting in an enhancement of
spontaneous and carcinogenic chromatid aberrations."
(Regret that space does not allow me to list all the people who
should be mentioned above..... More will be said in subsequent
messages.)
The torch has been passed ... from a U.S. research "world" that
**everybody** realizes had been heavily "tilted" by the built-in
industry AND government **conflict of interest that is STRUCTURALLY a
part of the U.S. science community** ... to a non-U.S. science community,
that, by an large, is much free-er of those conflict of interest
influences.... And, the difference is notable in the results that are
beginning to come forth....
Oh, of course, we still do have some U.S. "stars," whose contributions
have had to fight against a tide of industry/government $$$$$$ and control
over the research community "machinery." In that regard (from the BEMS
meeting) should be mentioned the likes of Paul Gailey and Ken McLeod who
offered a (somewhat) new theory on a "mechanism" of ELF interaction with
the "cell environment" such as to (perhaps) dictate the genome response.
Or ... equally challenging was the work presented by Reba Goodman and
Martin Blank (of Columbia U.) whose earlier work has now been confirmed
by a number of others -- though, when they first offered their "Very
Low EM fields can induce stress protein response in the cell" findings ...
they were ridiculed and (temporarily) drummed out of the EMF research
corps.....
At the Munich BEMS meeting, Reba challenged the community to not only
recognize the validity of that "stress response" mechanism, but also to
put it to use as a means to bypass the "thermal" question. She writes:
"Current safety standards for cell phones are based on the biological
effects of heating: a thermal stress causes a general shut-down of normal
transcription and translation, and results in a large accumulation of
stress proteins. Low frequency EM fields also induce stress proteins,
**but at 14 orders of magnitude lower energy input levels. Thus, long
before the effects of heating are measurable, the effects of EM fields are
manifest."** ......That, she says, provides us a much better "standard"
to measure in ensuring the lowest possible risk from our cell phone.....
Finally, an item that may also be relevant here (as we try to see
ourselves "as others see us") -- I arrived home to read in the local
paper that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) was spending **one
million dollars** -- can you believe it!!?? (A whole **one million
$$$$$$$**) on cell phone research. Ostensibly that money is being spent
"to prove the safety of the technology." Worse -- not only is that
expenditure a **laughable** amount on such a serious matter -- it is being
spent "with the CELL PHONE INDUSTRY in research THEY ARE
CONDUCTING".....!!! God help us.......!!!
Already -- there is a credibility gap there!!!! (Do you "see yourself
as others do" ... FDA???....)
The bottom line, here, is that the following news story should not
surprise any of us...... It shows "us" Americans as others DO see
us...... Justifiably....... I believe......
Cheerio......
....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness....
NEW WEBSITE: emfguru.com
.................People are more important than profits.................
DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST???
*** France No. 1, U.S. low in health care
LONDON (AP) - France has the best health care system in the world,
followed by Italy, while war-torn Sierra Leone has the worst,
according to a contentious first attempt to rank the world's health
systems. The U.S., which spends more on health care than any
other nation, came in 37th. In the analysis published Wednesday, the
World Health Organization evaluated the health care systems of its
191 members and graded them based on how well each country performs
given the resources at its disposal. Previous assessments have looked
just at how healthy people are, "and you're left with the image that
the rich (countries) do well because they're rich," said study
co-author Dr. Julio Frenk. This new analysis praises health systems
"that utilize few resources very well." The report essentially
measures value for money: comparing a population's health with how
effectively governments spend their money on health, how well the
public health system prevents illness instead of just treating it and
how fairly the poor, minorities and other special populations are
treated. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567504706-0af
*** Also: Ranking of world's health systems, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567492751-406
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com