Subject: Cell phones on TV (Slesin)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 035937 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Hi folks:
Janet Newton has translated the french portion of Louis' earlier
message regarding the coming news reports about cell phone health
effects....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:18:33 -0400
From: Louis Slesin / Microwave News
To: mwn@pobox.com, rbeavers@llion.org, thistle@sover.net
Subject: Cell phones on TV
Louis -
I've translated the description of the France 2 mobile phone report
for October 21. It follows the French text below.
Janet Newton
ABC News has issued a press release announcing that its 20/20 show on
possible health risks associated with the use of cellular phones will air
on Wednesday night, October 20th at 10pm, Eastern time.
ABC tested a number of mobile phones and measured how much microwave
radiation would be absorbed by a user. According to the press release, four
out of five phones tested exceeded the U.S. federal government limit in at
least one position.
On the following night, October 21, French television station France 2 will
air its own show on mobile phone health risks. Note that Paul Kenyon, who
is listed in the credits, was the reporter on the BBC Panorama program on
health risks which aired on May 24 of this year.
Here is what is posted on the France 2 Web site:
Portables : attention danger
Un reportage d'Olivier Galzi, Philippe Jasselin, Paul Kenyon
et Neil Higginson.
En France, plus d'une personne sur quatre possède un
téléphone portable et la planète compte plus de 300 millions
d'utilisateurs. Face à cette explosion du marché, une
question revient de plus en plus souvent : le portable peut-il
être dangereux pour la santé ?
Les scientifiques sont de plus en plus inquiets. Récemment,
une enquête de la BBC a fait grand bruit outre-Atlantique.
L'équipe d'Envoyé Spécial a mené sa propre enquête. Elle
nous a conduit sur de nouvelles pistes concernant les effets
possibles induits par les très basses fréquences émises par le
mobile (fréquences jusqu'ici considérées comme
inoffensives). Les études se multiplient et plusieurs d'entre
elles constatent que le téléphone portable induit des effets
biologiques sur notre santé et qu'il provoque un
dysfonctionnement de notre système de régulation du stress.
Toutes ces études prouvent qu'il existe une interaction entre
le téléphone portable et l'organisme vivant avec lequel il est
en contact. Les fabricants refusent d'admettre ce lien, et ne
semblent pas prendre en compte les avertissements qui leur
sont donnés par ces chercheurs. "C'est l'histoire du tabac qui
se répète encore et encore" selon le docteur Ross Adey, de
l'Université de Riverside en Californie. "Je pense qu'ils
essaient de manipuler les données afin que rien n'apparaisse"
affirme le professeur Lai de l'Université de Washington à
Seattle.
Translation:
Mobile Phones: Attention to the danger.
A report by Olivier Galzi, Philippe Jasselin, Paul Kenyon and Neil
Higginson.
In France, more than one person in four owns a portable phone and
there are 300 million users on the planet. As a result of this market
explosion, one question arises more and more often: Can the mobile phone be
hazardous to ones health?
Scientists are more and more uneasy. Recently an investigation from
the BBC resounded across the Atlantic. The special correspondant team
conducted its own investigation. It lead us down new paths concerning
possible effects brought on by very weak frequencies emitted by mobile
phones (frequencies at strengths which up to now were considered harmless.)
Studies are multiplying and several of them attest that the mobile phone
induces biological effects on our health and that it provokes a dysfunction
of our stress regulation system. All of these studies prove there exists an
interaction between the mobile phone and the living organism with which it
is in contact. The manufacturers refuse to admit this link, and seem not to
take into account the warnings that these researchers have given them.
"This is the tobacco story repeating itself again and again," according to
Dr. Ross Adey, of Riverside University in California. "I think that they
try to manipulate the results so that nothing is shown," affirms Dr. Henry
Lai of the University of Wasington in Seattle.
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Louis Slesin, PhD
Editor, Microwave News
A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation
Phone: 212-517-2800; Fax: 212-734-0316
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com