Subject:  Neglected Dangers of Cell Phone Use (Chandra)..
Date:     Fri, 8 Oct 1999 063745 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Hi everybody:

I forward an INTERESTING well written piece from a well qualified
commentator.....

......I don't believe that Satish was on the list at the time we
reported on the "blood brain barrier" research.....  His comments below
call it to mind.....  He accurately pinpoints the fact that the brain
functions as "a bundle of trillions of electrical circuits."

.......I think that is the point that so many of our "lay" readers may
fail to comprehend -- the 'electrical' nature of life, itself,
particularly the brain......  These delicately balanced electrical
circuits of the 'electrical' atoms and molecules which comprise the cells
of life are simply "vulnerable" to all sorts of mischief when exposed to
other nearby electrical/electronic signals......

It may take many generations hence before mankind can feel that these
secrets of Mother Nature are fully understood ... but, at this point in
time, there is simply no rational excuse for mankind to fail to recognize
the implications of what IS NOW KNOWN.....  

Cheerio, many thanks, Satish, for your comments -- and welcome!!!

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 23:42:38 EDT
From: Satish Chandra 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Cc: satchandra2@hotmail.com
Subject: Neglected Dangers of Cell Phone Use

Date: October 5, 1999
From: Satish Chandra, P. O. Box 2029, Cambridge, MA 02238, U.S.A.
      E-Mail:    satchandra2@hotmail.

            Studies of possible harms to the brain from cell phone use  by 
the Wireless Technology Research Group, meant to be a definitive, 
industry-wide effort, focus on cancer and genetic damage but miss other, 
more likely, harmful effects. If I bring my cell phone within a foot and a 
half of an answering machine, the answering machine starts buzzing. If its 
radiation has such an effect on the electrical circuits of an answering 
machine, one can imagine the effects on the far more delicate and vulnerable 
electrical circuits of the brain which is essentially a bundle of trillions 
of electrical circuits. 

      The buzzing of the answering machine at one and a half foot is just
one, rather gross, effect observed. Significant, possibly devastating and
permanent, disruptions of the functioning of the brain's electrical
circuits could occur at much larger distances. These disruptions 
could keep an Einstein from producing a Theory of Relativity or produce 
subtle and not so subtle effects on memory and a myriad other brain 
functions. 

     Use of a cell phone with a headset, with an ear piece and a
microphone, which has been pronounced safe by the project's head, George
Carlo, in a press interview (Boston Globe, October 4, 1999, Health/Science 
section, page C1) keeps the cell phone's antenna just about a foot and a 
half from the head.

     The project head's statement in the press interview above that 
radiation from cell phones penetrates two to two and a half inches inside 
the skull and so keeping the cell phone more than two inches away from the 
head would be safe shows utter ignorance of basic electrical principles. One 
is aghast at the fact that for six years this scientist has headed a $27 
million research effort of a consortium, overseen by scientists at Harvard 
University, on possible harms of cell phone use.

     I had been determined never to use a cell phone even if the phone and 
the service were free and I was given a stipend to use it but, a few days 
ago, decided to give it a try, with a headset, but soon switched it off and 
will use it, if at all, very sparingly.
                                       Sincerely,
                                       Satish Chandra

            (The writer, with more higher education than anyone he knew on 
the Harvard University faculty, has degrees in both Electrical Engineering 
and Psychology.)

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