Subject:  (Carney) Reasonable fears of harm.....
Date:     Wed, 7 Oct 1998 110935 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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......I think Deb's comment (below) about the cynicism of jurors
(poisoned by BIG industry propaganda) is true.....  How has this 
been accomplished???  

Have you noticed (for example) the large volume of ***paid*** advertising
which is appearing on TV, etc., that broadcasts the theme:  "High costs of
[medical or whatever] is all being caused by the "trial lawyers"!!!
....Saying, implicitly, that such "damages" lawsuit cases -- when they
get to a jury -- are an 'enemy' of society.....  What Deb refers to
(below) is the same kind of thing......guru......


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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 07:40:12 -0600
From: Deb Carney 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: PAVE PAWS and Conclusive proof.....

The program with Bill Moyers was excellent.  As a companion to the buying of
the politician, look at what the insurance industry has done to our jury pools.
Insurance and industry have prejudiced most of the American jury pool.   Most
potential jurors are now very cynical of anyone bringing a personal injury
action.  (Although the few big awards that I am seeing are for cases where
people's property has been polluted)  Industry is responding by trying to make
sure these cases don't get to the jury.  In law, there is tremendous pressure
from industry to have judges throw out "junk science".  Junk science is any
science that is not the majority position.  There is a belief that juries
cannot be trusted to evaluate the facts when it comes to science.  The burden
of proof for personal injury cases is more probably true than not true. (one
more grain of sand on the scales of justice)  Where people are more likely to
win is by showing that they have ***reasonable fears of harm and that
these fears are driving down the value of their property.***  [guru's
emphasis]
  
If people can band together and bring class action lawsuits in
neighborhoods where EMR emissions are driving down values, then they can
have the strength of numbers to outlast the long, hard fight.  People will
need qualified real estate appraisers and realtors giving their opinion
that the EMR has led to decreased property values.
Deb Carney

Roy L. Beavers wrote:

> Hi everybody:
>
> "Conclusive proof" is the opiate that industry (government/military)
> is smoking while the public pays the price.....  My exposure to the
> science community over the last six years or so has shown me that
> "conclusive proof" is NOT a science concept at all....  Virtually
> NONE of the science we know, and are guided by in our societal lives,
> is considered to be "conclusively proved."  (Neither is it a legal
> concept, by the way....  It is a "P.R." concept!!!)
>
> Work to inform your media people and your community leaders -- there is
> NO reason that we should allow industry to breath so deeply of that
> opiate AT THE PUBLIC'S EXPENSE......
>
> Sorry I can't forward the "pics" in the following excellent item from
> Cape Cod.....
>
> Cheerio.....
>
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
> rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
> ................................It is better to light a single candle ...
> than to curse the darkness...............................................
>
> PAVE PAWS is under fire
> Cape group wants the facility shut due to health concerns
>
> By JEFFREY BURT
> STAFF WRITER
>
> SAGAMORE - A group of Cape residents, concerned about what they
> believe are the effects of microwave radiation on human health, yesterday
> called for the PAVE PAWS radar on the Massachusetts Military Reservation
> to be shut down and a moratorium on the building of telecommunication
> towers on the Cape.
>
> The group, called Cape Cod Citizens, said PAVE PAWS and the growing
> number of telecommunication towers are laying a blanket of
> electromagnetic radiation on a part of the country that already is
> struggling to understand what is causing the reported high cancer rates.
>
> Sandwich resident Sharon Judge said at a press conference yesterday
> that there is a "preponderance of evidence" that exposure to microwaves
> can lead to health problems in humans.
>
> "Our community cannot afford one more drop in the bucket given our
> high cancer rates," Judge said, standing at the Sagamore commuter lot,
> with the PAVE PAWS facility visible across the canal.
>
> Activists around the base for years have questioned whether the
> 20-year-old facility endangers human health. But while the concern is
> there, conclusive evidence is not, according to some people interviewed
> yesterday.
>
> Mark Leccese, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Health,
> said studies in the 1980s by Boston University and his agency did not
> find PAVE PAWS was a health threat.
>
> Others also said studies, both private and federally funded, are
> conflicting on whether microwave radiation is harmful to humans.
>
> "It's a very big controversy," said Gay Wells, a planner with the
> Cape Cod Commission, which is trying to collect information on the issue.
>
> Leccese said the DPH is putting together a panel of scientists and
> local residents to take another look at PAVE PAWS.
>
> "There is no scientific consensus," he said. "Even though there is
> no scientific consensus, some data does say there is a potential risk. ...
> We want to do an assessment of that data."
>
> Judge said DPH and other agencies have "dropped the ball" in looking
> at PAVE PAWS. She also questioned why the Silent Spring Institute, hired
> by the DPH to investigate the Cape's high incidence of breast cancer, is
> no longer looking at the radar site as a possible cause.
>
> Julia Brody, the institute's director, said yesterday that while the
> study does not rule out PAVE PAWS, there are other factors more promising
> to explain the high cancer rates, and there are no plans to look at the
> radar tower in the study's second phase.
>
> Also, Brody said, there are residential areas behind PAVE PAWS, out
> of the path of the radiation, that also have high cancer rates.
>
> PAVE PAWS is designed to detect sea-launched ballistic missiles and
> also tracks satellites and other objects in space. Judge called it a
> "Cold War relic" that costs $2.4 million a year.
>
> Lt. Col. Robert Keyser, who runs the 6th Space Defense Squadron, which
> operates PAVE PAWS, said the facility's mission is still vital, and will
> be for another five to 10 years.
>
> Celine Gandolfo spoke after Judge, pushing for a Capewide moratorium
> on the siting of telecommunication towers until towns can develop bylaws.
>
> Wells, of the Cape Cod Commission, said many towns are developing such
> bylaws, using models developed by her agency.
>
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