Subject: (Philips) UK coverage of cell phone story....
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 070513 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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.....Alasdair is right!!! He says BBC gave a 40 minute program.....
The bit I saw on BBC (news via Primestar) was about two minutes ... and it
was pure "filler" ... no "guts" in the story......
As Alasdair says below -- "WOW"!!!...... None of what he reports below
was on the news report I saw..... NO DOUBT WHAT I SAW WAS INTENDED
FOR US CONSUMPTION!!!!
Would some of our US news people PLEASE pick up on the following
(British) version...... (Still no coverage on ABC, CBS or NBC!!!!!)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:52:34
From: Alasdair Philips
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Local Media (fwd)
Roy
We have been having extensive tabloid press scare story headlines over
here in the UK.
I don't know what BBC piece you saw but is obviously wasn't last week's
Panorama programme which was 40 minutes of highly disturbing research
showing up the dishonesty of the industry very clearly.
It started with about 5 mins interview (etc) with Steve Corney, the ex
British Telecom engineer who was trying to get a personal injury case
going - which was reported on EMF-L a couple of months ago.
It then went on to interview Ross Adey, Henry Lai and Louis Slesin who
were very good indeed, and "our Norm" (Sandler) from Motorola (and the
'war-gaming' memo) who was very shifty and unbelievable and a guy from
Ericsson who seemed niaive but more credible. It also carried a number
of extracts from an interview with George Carlo who continued his "I've
changed sides" attitude and was really very good for our cause!
(see below)
It also went to Sweden and interviewed Lennart Hardell about his tumour
study and he was saying that it is unwise to use mobiles much at all and
it was irresponsible to allow children to use them.
It had lots more as well but I can't remember just now. However I have
written down the closing Carlo quotes: (magic!)
George Carlo (WTR):
.."We have evidence of possible genetic damage in experiments using
.. human blood. We have evidence of a possible increase in tumour
.. risk. The science that we have today clearly shows that this is
.. not black and white, that we have moved now into a grey area that
.. suggests that there could be a problem that needs to be looked at
.. very, very carefully."
Presenter:
## "The industry say there is no problem. Is that right?"
Carlo:
.. "At this stage that is not a responsible position to take. We
.. clearly have results here that suggest there could be more
.. here than meets the eye."
For whatever reason (funding, covering his back, etc), WOW! Thanks!
Good wishes
Alasdair
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Alasdair Philips, BSc(Eng), DAgE, MIAgE
Director, UK Powerwatch, (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
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At 03:27 26/05/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>......I, too, am interested in knowing of any coverage on the recent spate
>of cell phone "hazardous" reports ... other than on BBC??? I saw the BBC
>report. I thought it was "the usual" tongue-in-cheek "we really don't
>believe this stuff, but here is what 'science' is finding anyway." Am I
>correct that CBS, ABC and NBC have NOT reported it???......
>
>Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
>rbeavers@llion.org.......
>.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
>EMF-L web-site can be found at:
>EMF-L archives can be found at: (soon to be available)
>...................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS.................
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:28:13 EDT
>From: Light540@aol.com
>To: rbeavers@llion.org
>Subject: Local Media
>
>I'm curious to hear if anyone's local newspapers have been printing any
>stories lately regarding all the recent studies, etc. I forwarded the Wash
>Post story to the Roanoke Times on Saturday and they edited it extensively
in
>Sunday's edition. The largest advertisers in that paper are the cell phone
>companies, full page, color, almost daily so I haven't got high hopes to see
>much else on anything "negative" towards these companies. Other than that I
>haven't heard or seen anything other what I've been getting (luckily) from
>this list.
>Regards,
>Elena
>
>
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Alasdair Philips, BSc(Eng), DAgE, MIAgE
Director, UK Powerwatch, (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
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