Subject: WHOOPS!! Re As others see us..... (guru).. (fwd)
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 055851 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......Looks like a flash of my Alzheimer's caught me again....
Thanks EVA!!!! (Say "hi" to Gerd and everybody..... With my
apologies for the error.......)
Roy Beavers
roy@emfguru.com
....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness....
NEW WEBSITE: emfguru.com
.................People are more important than profits.................
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:33:41 +0200
From: Eva Marsalek
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: As others see us..... (guru)..
Dear Guru,
permit me to inform you that the "Cell Tower Safety"-meeting was in
AUSTRIA
and not in Australia....
Thank you for all your informations. I forward your mail to our
scientists,
regards
eva
"Roy L. Beavers" schrieb:
> 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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Internationale Konferenz Situierung von Mobilfunksendern
Wissenschaft & Öffentliche Gesundheit
Salzburg, 7.- 8. Juni 2000
Salzburger Resolution und Tagungsband:
http://www.land-sbg.gv.at/celltower
International Conference on Cell Tower Siting
Linking Science & Public Health
Salzburg, June 7-8, 2000
Salzburg Resolution and Proceedings:
http://www.land-sbg.gv.at/celltower
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