Subject:  ICNIRP ((Philips).
Date:     Fri, 01 Sep 2000 113230 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Subject: ICNIRP
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 17:00:14
From: Alasdair Philips 
To: Roy Beavers 

Roy
A new Chairman, Dr Alastair McKinlay, has been appointed for ICNIRP. It
reconfirms that this is just an establishment and industry club. This is
what I wrote, and was published by UK Government, about him last year,
so you are safe to forward it to the group. I take full responsibility.
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The following is printed publicly and formally in my evidence to the UK 
House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology in 1999:

"The current head of the Non-Ionising Department at the UK NRPB on leaving
school worked for the Scottish Department of Health who sponsored his
degree studies. He joined the NRPB not long after it was formed in 1970 and
obtained his PhD in experimental radiation dosimetry at Paisley College of
Technology.  He has now worked for the NRPB for well over a quarter of a
century. 

He has published nothing in the peer-reviewed literature on the biological
effects of microwave or radiofrequency radiation. 

Under oath in the Coghill “Mobile Phones Warning Label” Court case in Wales
in November 1998, he repeatedly stated that he only understood dosimetry
(the science of measuring signals) and had no understanding of the
biological or medical implications of the interaction of electric and
magnetic fields with living tissue. 

He stated that he relied completely on his colleagues for their advice in
those areas and refused to venture his own opinion when pressed by the
Chairman of the Bench to do so. 

Yet Dr McKinlay currently represents the NRPB and, effectively, the United
Kingdom, on most of the European and International Committees on
Non-Ionising Radiation Protection."

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An announcement and biography are apparently on the NRPB web site.
 www.nrpb.org.uk


 
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Alasdair Philips,   BSc(Eng), DAgE, MIAgE
Director, UK Powerwatch, (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
   http://www.powerwatch.org.uk
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