Subject: (Curry) Article on dangers of microwave radiation (fwd)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 053308 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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.......Thanks, Bill, for sharing this with us.....To others "out
there" who publish, please let us know!!! Guru loves to share
your efforts with your group of friends here......guru......
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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 00:14:03 -0700
From: "Bill P. Curry"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Article on dangers of microwave radiation
Roy, here is the article I promised you. The editor of the Glen Ellyn News
made minor editorial changes (actually made the essay read smoother), and I
have incorporated them into this version of my letter. The letter was sent in
response to the statements by an environmental engineer in a previous letter
to the editor. That letter questioned whether there were any reputable
scientific studies supporting the notion of cell phone related health issues.
My letter follows:
Editor:
I am a former staff physicist at Argonne National Lab. This
letter is in response to the letter of Jeffrey Gahris in the Oct. 9, 1998
issue, titled "Water tower heats up." Jeff Gahris stated "An Internet
search revealed that 'studies' have found dangers, but the evidence put
forth has not been accepted as good science." I challenge that statement.
Gahris should read the FAQ by Dr. John Moulder at the Medical College of
Wisconsin, (as I think he did) but disregarded Moulder's comments and read
his references instead.
I have been investigating this issue since early spring, have
read numerous papers from refereed journals, some of which I shall cite
here, and have attended two scientific meetings dealing with this and
related subjects, and I think a consistent picture of vulnerability is
emerging.
There are some electrosensitive individuals who have allergy-like responses
when exposed to microwave radiation and some other forms of electromagnetic
radiation, as well. I have personally met a number of these people, and a
journal article about their plight to which I have just been referred is C.W.
Smith, R.Y.S. Choy and J.A. Monro: "The Diagnosis and Therapy of
Electrical Hypersensitivities," Clinical Ecology 6:119-128 (1989).
In vitro studies in the laboratories of Professors Martin Blank and Reba
Goodman at Columbia University have shown that low level sinusoidal magnetic
fields can affect biological enzyme reaction rates, and cells go into a
protective mode when bombarded with AC magnetic fields and generate "heat
shock proteins", which are nature's way of protecting cells against lethal
and environmental stresses. The fluctuating magnetic field intensities in
which these events occur are quite low and the frequency range extends
over several thousand Hz, incorporating the frequency range of audio
modulation of cell phones and the pulsing rate (approximately 200 Hz) of
PCS phones. Their work is cited in Cell Stress and Chaperones, 3: 79-88
(1998) and Bioelectromagnetics 18:111-115 (1997) 3)
In four different laboratories (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, University
of California Riverside, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Lab, and
Battelle Pacific National Lab) investigators have found low level
sinusoidal magnetic fields can block the ability of Melatonin and
Tamoxifen to inhibit breast cancer cell growth. This work is too recent to
be published yet, but I heard papers on it in a recent meeting in Tucson.
Also, Mice that were genetically predisposed to have lymphatic cancer
were found to be more likely (by a statistically significant ratio) to
develop cancer in the presence of fields simulating pulsed cell phone
radiation than predisposed mice not exposed to the radiation. M.H.
Repacholi, A Basten et al: “Lymphomas in Eµ-Pim1 Transgenic Mice Exposed to
Pulsed 900 MHz Electromagnetic Fields” Radiation Research 147:631-640 (1997).
DNA strand breakage and failure of DNA repair mechanisms upon exposure to
electromagnetic fields have been reported in several articles, one of which is
H. Lai and S.P. Singh: "Acute low-intensity microwave exposure increases
DNA single strand breaks in rat brain cells," Bioelectromagnetics
16:207-210, 1995. Another is H. Lai and S.P. Singh: "DNA Single and
double strand breaks in rat brain cells after acute exposure to low-level
radio frequency electromagnetic radiation." International Journal of
Radiation Biology 69:513-5216. Microwave fields were found to increase
the mutation rate of DNA in the presence of a carcinogen over that due to
the carcinogen alone. A Maes, M Collier et al: "954 MHz microwaves enhance
the mutagenic properties of mitomycin C." Environmental Molecular Mutagens
28:26-30, 1996).
Epidemiological studies have shown that Children living near a certain radar
installation were more prone to leukaemia than the general population, S.
Milham: Leukaemia clusters, Lancet 2, 1122 (1963). In ham radio operators
classified by age and license class (experience level), the technician class
(experience level just beyond novice permits more powerful transmitters) has
60% higher standardized mortality rate due to leukemia than the general
population, in S. Milham: Carcinogenicity of Electromagnetic Fields, European
Journal of Oncology 3: 93-100 (1998). c) Epidemiological data from all over
the world showing an association of cancer and other maladies are analyzed in
J.R. Goldsmith: "Epidemiologic evidence relevant to radar (microwave)
effects," Environmental Health Perspectives , 5:1579-1587 (1997). Also,
Dr. Goldsmith has compared microwave radiation, including cell phone
radiation, with other public health issues in J.R. Goldsmith: "From
sanitation to cell phones: participants and principles involved in
environmental health protection," Public Health Reviews 25: 124-149
(1997).
Bill P. Curry, Ph.D.
858-9377
This letter was published on Oct. 16, 1998 under the title (assigned by the
editor) "Scientist Warns of Antenna Radiation."
If this is of any use to the people on the EMF-L list, I invite you to use it
as you see fit.
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