Subject:  Re Guru chastised (Lundquist)(Reuss)(Johnson)(Gutknecht).
Date:     Sat, 02 Sep 2000 101911 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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........Response from EMF-L......

Kurt is harder on Marj than I was.....  He makes some good points with 
which I agree.......  The only difference is that I see **our governments**
as the real villains.....!!  They are the parties **guilty** of "malfeasance
and inertia".....  The rest are only **guilty of greed**......guru.......

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Subject: Re: Guru chastised (Lundquist)(Reuss)(Johnson)...
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 10:01:01 -0500
From: "Kurt Gutknecht" 
To: 
References: <39B0D261.7781C8CF@emfguru.com>

I respectfully disagree with Ms. Lundquist's assessment that a "Nuremberg
Trial" approach would not be appropriate and that targeting professional
societies such as the IEEE will mitigate the problem.

I am no expert in the history of science, but I doubt whether scientific
principles have previously been assaulted and distorted on such a scale as
this. No matter what the IEEE does or doesn't do, its members are captives
of powerful corporate interests. Time after time, its members knowingly
violate engineering principles endorsed by the organization because they are
paid to do so. And it will not make a whit of difference whether Ms.
Lundquist establishes "a new profession of bioelectromagnetic hygiene"
because well-funded corporate interests will continue to hire "scientists"
to distort and question the findings. In today's environment, science counts
for much less than perception. The utilities have massive resources to
allocate to public relations and obfuscation.

They anticipate every criticism and distort every adverse finding. They
monitor this list, and are content to let it continue as long as it doesn't
pose any real threat.

Based on the human suffering I have witnessed over the past 18 months and
the egregious (and obvious) distortions promulgated by utility employees,
nothing short of a Nuremberg Trial would be appropriate.  This issue
concerns fundamental principles of democracy and human decency. The belief
that another professional organization such as that proposed by Ms.
Lundquist will address the problem is a dangerously naive hypothesis.

The utilities will fuel hysteria over the so-called "energy shortages" to
relegate health concerns to the back burner.  The only hope of stopping the
utility juggernaut lies with public demands for justice.


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