Subject: Comment on Scientific Study Expert Groups (fwd) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 084908 -0500 (CDT) From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org> To: emfguru@hotmail.com -------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:42:31 EDT From: Envoptions@aol.com To: rbeavers@llion.org Subject: Comment on Scientific Study Expert Groups In a message dated 98-09-16 23:04:54 EDT, Alasdair Philips writes: << Two weeks ago the UK National Radiological Board (NRPB) hosted an international three-day World Health Organisation EMF epidemiology metrics meeting (i.e. just what and how should we be measuring EMFs in future EMF epidemiology?). Who did, you may well ask?.. ...... Well...representatives from Motorola, Vodaphone (a UK cellular phone operator), a number of people from the UK electricity industry, at least one person from EPRI, and many people who have never done ANY actual work on EMF epidemiology, let alone measurement metrics(!) plus a FEW people who have done actual measurements and have some practical knowledge of who/what/why to measure signals. This meeting was paid for by public money. >> Paralleling the above example of "science at work", this is an update on the happenings in "stray voltage" and dairy voltage in the midwest United States (Minnesota). A nice one-inch thick scientific report just came out in Sept 1998. To get a feel for it, from the Alastair quote above: (all quotes being paraphrases for brevity) replace "EMF studies" with "the effects of earth current from the utility distribution multigrounded neutral system and dairy farm 'stray voltage' problems; replace "representatives" with the usual array of "experts" and you end up with the usual "we've looked at all the 'credible scientific evidence' and concluded there is no connection between the existing electrical current in the earth and cow problems." The tragedy of this, is the fact that this is the report that gets sent to the Minnesota state ledislature and will be used as the basis for legislative action to do nothing or worse yet do something to make the situation worse (if thats possible). =========================================================== Spark Burmaster Environmental Options Chaseburg, Wsconsin, USA 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