Subject:  (Fist) Re "A marked deck....." (fwd)
Date:     Sun, 20 Sep 1998 053144 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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......I happily accept the correction from Stewart Fist (and Ross
Adey).......guru.......

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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:41:03 +1000
From: Stewart Fist 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: "A marked deck....."

Roy, you state:
> Wayne, the situation as I have seen it (at NIEHS) is that they are 
> not even willing to acknowledge solid, double blind, replicated lab
> experiments (like the work done on melatonin by Liburdy) when it produces 
> results which do not conform with their EXPECTATIONS. 

While agreeing with your sentiments, and not wanting to nit-pick ... I don't
want to let a mistake you've made here be taken up and circulated widely.

According to Ross Adey, "Liburdy's initial observation of  12mG 60 Hz field
inhibition of melatonin's regulation of human breast cancer cell growth has
been beautifully confirmed (not "replicated") by Blackman at EPA and Luben at
UC Riverside."

Unless there's been a true replication, I think it is important that we don't
leave open such overstated claims to attack.

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