Subject: Re In my "spare" time, McGwire Madness..... (fwd)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 153523 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 15:20:00 -0600
From: "Bill P. Curry"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: In my "spare" time, McGwire Madness..... (fwd)
Roy,
I thoroughly enjoyed your editorial about baseball and the times when we were
kids, as well as now. I guess you are about seven years older than I, and I
too enjoyed watching baseball more than other sports. I watched a semi-pro
team called the "Nashville Vols" during my college years in the second half of
the fifties, but my major league watching has been restricted to TV. Someday,
though, I am going to see the Cubs in person, now that I live near Chicago.
More power to both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. They seem to be decent young
men, as well as great athletes.
I also share your optimism about America, though I would like to see a little
common sense on the part of our senators and representatives. Senator Bill
Frist (Tennessee heart surgeon) is a good man, and I would like to see him
informed of the dangers of unregulated (or inadequately regulated) EMF
producers - especially the telecommunications industry. Note that Illinois
Senator Carol Mosely-Braun is supporting the Leahy bill to try to reestablish
the rights of communities to deviate from the FCC standards.
I plan to attend half of the Tucson meeting on "Annual Review of Bioeffects
Research" (at my own expense - travel and lodging, no conference fee). I have
recently met Libby Kelley and Janie Blanchard in San Francisco, and I talked
with Dr. Carl Blackman (of the EPA Laboratory in North Carolina) for two hours
on the phone recently. It would be good if you or one of your associates
could get to the Tucson meeting. The NIEHS people who got out the EMF RAPID
report certainly deserve some commendation and support from those concerned
about EMF bioeffects, since there enough people in government ready to smash
any further developments construed as unfavorable to the power industry and
the global telecommunications industry. Apparently, the government bias began
under the previous administration, when Dr. Alan Bromley was the presidential
science advisor. He was (in my opinion) unduly influenced by his Yale
colleague, Dr. Robert Adair. What I can't understand is why the Clinton
administration has continued this bias - especially in suppressing the earlier
EPA report on EMF bioeffects.
Incidentally, Dr. John Goldsmith's meritorious presentation in San Francisco
was accompanied by booklets compiled from several of his papers, and these can
be purchased from Libby Kelley's organization. I have one and heartily
recommend it to your readers. Dr. Goldsmith made at least two seminal points
(paraphrased by me): 1) We should stop concentrating primarily on whether EMF
causes cancer (since the cancer latency period is as long as 15-20 years) and
realize that harmful EMF bioeffects include a whole range of illnesses, some
of which are devastating. 2) we shouldn't arbitrarily divide up EMF into
power line frequencies and microwave frequencies, but rather realize that the
whole spectrum of EMF has significant bioeffects - some beneficial and some harmful.
Apparently, the next big push of the cell phone manufacturers is going to be
wireless networks for computer users, using modems based on digital wireless
technology. One of the sub societies in our local chapter of the IEEE is
presenting a seminar on this topic at Lucent Technology in Naperville,
Illinois. This is one of Lucent's strong commercial interests, and I look
forward to finding out more about their plans. I will tell you if I find out
anything significant.
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