Subject: Misinformation concerning the Adairs (Adair).
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 091151 -0500
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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.........Response from EMF-L........
The following seems to confirm the Adair's close ties to the U.S. Air
Force. I have found Dr. (Robert) Adair's research into the physics of
baseball to be quite interesting.........guru........
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Subject: FW: Misinformation concerning the Adairs
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:44:45 -0500
From: Adair Eleanor Civ AFRL/HEDR
To: "'roy@emfguru.com'"
Please forward to your mailing list. Thank you.
Eleanor Adair
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From: Adair Eleanor Civ AFRL/HEDR
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 5:47 PM
To: 'marjlundquist@usa.net'
Subject: Misinformation concerning the Adairs
Dear Dr. Lundquist:
Recently, some misinformation you sent to Roy Beavers for his web page has
come to my attention. It seems appropriate to set the record straight.
I have been conducting research on the thermal and thermoregulatory effects
of exposure to radio frequency fields for more than 25 years, principally in
the Pierce Laboratory at Yale University. During this time I have been
funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science
Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Naval
Research, and the U.S. Air Force, including AFOSR. During the 1980's, a
7-year grant from NIH funded the only work I have done involving RF exposure
of rats. This research determined the optimal conditions for microwave
incubation of newborn rat pups for the first 21 days of life. Male pups so
exposed were allowed to grow to maturity and breed. No deleterious effects
of the early RF exposure was determined in periodic behavioral and
physiological tests, complete blood analyses, success in producing normal
litters, or in the final necropsy and organ analyses at 120 days of age.
This research provided a model for the possible microwave incubation of
human premature infants and was later used for incubating hypothermic farm
animals.
The remainder of my animal research has involved adult male squirrel
monkeys, exposed to resonant and supra-resonant frequencies, CW and pulsed
fields, in assorted thermal environments, and at whole-body SARs as high as
8 W/kg. One four-year study, funded by EPA and ONR, involved chronic
exposure of groups of monkeys for 15 weeks. This work was published in
Bioelectromagnetics in 1985. Much of my monkey work was funded by the U.S.
Air Force, including many behavioral studies in which the animals selected
their own thermal environments when RF fields were present. While
behavioral responses can exert fine control over the body temperature, they
are nevertheless always based on thermal factors. I have never conducted a
study that could be construed as non-thermal in character. During the past
12 years, I have concentrated on the measurement of physiological responses
that regulate the body temperature, including metabolic heat production,
conductance changes through blood flow, and evaporative responses including
sweating and respiration. Techniques and protocols worked out on squirrel
monkeys have been adapted to my current research on human volunteers exposed
to RF fields. Since 1996, I have been employed by the U.S. Air Force as the
Senior Scientist for Electromagnetic Radiation Effects at Brooks AFB in San
Antonio, Texas. My civilian rank is the equivalent of a Brigadier General
and I am the overseer of many research projects that are directly related to
the health and safety of military personnel who encounter a huge variety of
RF emitters in their work. Because the Tri-Service Directed Energy Research
effort at Brooks has exceptional research facilities, indeed the best in the
world, it is the optimal location for the kind of work I do. I have
published several papers on my human research and have annually presented
papers at the meetings of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the American
Physiological Society, and the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
in addition to many special lectures. I currently serve as Vice-Chairman of
the IEEE SCC28 and am a member of NCRP Committee 89-5, but have never had
any professional interaction with or input into the IRPA or ICNIRP
processes. Membership in ICNIRP is by invitation only and a handful of
Americans have been so invited (Tenforde, Sliney, Stolwijk, Owen, Swicord,
etc.)
My husband, Robert Adair, is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Yale
University and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences for
many years. His work in nuclear physics and elementary particle physics was
continuously supported by the Department of Energy for more than 40 years
and until his retirement he was the leader of a large, active research group
at Yale. From 1952 to 1959, he was employed as a physicist at Brookhaven
National Laboratory. His work on the biophysics of ELF and RF interactions
is largely unsupported, as is his work on the physics of baseball.
I hope this helps to correct the misinformation you recently provided about
the Adairs.
Eleanor R. Adair, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com