Subject: Roger Coghill case, EMF news from UK (fwd) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 141805 -0600 (CST) From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org> To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org> -------------------------------------------------- ......This is a really outstanding "first-hand" account from the court room, itself.......guru...... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:08:56 EST From: MICROSHLD@aol.com To: rbeavers@llion.org Subject: Re: Roger Coghill case, EMF news from UK (fwd) Can't answer your query althougjh I'm sure Roger can, but I thought you all might like to know some details to emerge As usual, the NRPB continued to demonstrate their impartiality by acting as the main defence witness for the mobile phone dealer, in the court case brought this month (November) by biologist, Roger Coghill! Ultimately, Coghill’s lawyers were unable to prove beyond any doubt that the defendant had transgressed the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, but the magistrate took time out to stress that this case was nothing to do with whether placing warning labels on mobiles was justified. Even one of the NRPB entourage was quoted on national TV as saying that mobiles may well be implicated with health effects, which is the least he could say bearing in mind that 7 days previously the NRPB had issued a press release announcing it had launched it’s own research program into links between mobile use and brain cancer. Due to a quirk of English law, this information was inadmissible as part of Roger's case as it had occurred after the summons was issued, as indeed had much of the recent published research including possible dangers to pregnant woman and their unborn babies and two studies actually sponsored by the cellular industry showing increased blood pressure in human volunteers caused by constricting arteries (published in the Lancet), and yet more studies showing DNA damage in human cells. Also excluded was one of the recent UK's Dept Of Health studies which confirmed what has already been shown in American research, which is that mobile phone type radiation is implicated with short term memory loss. Studies on rats brains confirming this, was recently carried out by scientists at the British Defence Agency Establishment, DERA. Microshield Ind. Plc have received a stream of reports from users complaining of suffering from short term memory loss. Undaunted, Roger Coghill’s overall reaction was that the cellular industry “was still in the dock”. Another fact to emerge from the case, was the disproportionate amount of research funds which the NRPB allocated to non-ionising radiation studies, which either actively or passively affected 100% of the population, as opposed to ionising radiation which affected directly only those relative few thousands who worked in the nuclear industry. A further remarkable disclosure revealed was that the NRPB’s Dr McKinlay who is chairing the EU’s 5 year research program, was himself not qualified in any biological or medical discipline and had, up to that point, only been personally involved in one mobile phone related study, which was non- biological in nature. The NRPB's recent announcement of it's own research program was no doubt promted by The International Agency for Research on Cancer meeting in September ‘98 of specialists including scientist’s from the UK’s NRPB, where it was agreed that it was now feasible for a study to be carried out into any link between mobile phone use and brain cancer. The study design now needs to be agreed, but the results are not likely to be available until 2003 or 2004. When all's said and done, more's said than done! Regards John simpson Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html