Experts investigating biological effects of cell phone radiation asked to shut up or quit jobs

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Experts investigating biological effects of cell phone radiation asked to shut

up or quit jobs

 

 

 

One of the most widely publicised cases of electrosensitivity is that of former

Norwegian Prime Minister and now World Health Organisation Director-General Gro

Harlem Brundtland, who is also a medical doctor by profession. Brundtland says

she is electrically sensitive to cell phones and computers and does not own a

mobile phone but says that there is not yet enough scientific evidence to prove

the devices are dangerous.

 

An interview in March 2002 with the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet has put the

WHO Director-General on the top of the list of persons known to be sensitive to

HF EMF - low-intensity but high-frequency electromagnetic fields - as reports

accumulate that researchers who question the health aspects of the rapidly

escalating multi-billion-dollar industries in mobile phones, computers and

related technological marvels are being gagged, muzzled and being pressured out

of their jobs.

 

In Spain - reported the Cellular Phone Taskforce's information-crammed No Place

to Hide newsletter for June - a judge ordered 49 cell phone antennas removed

from a rooftop in downtown Valladolid, the second time a Spanish court has ruled

antennas should be removed for health reasons.

 

" This time the fight was led by parents of children at Garcia Quintana Primary

School, where three children had contracted acute lymphoblastic leukemia and one

Hodgkin's lymphoma since the antennas were installed, " reported the newsletter.

 

Indeed, reported Arturo Soria y Puig, who provided information for both the

Taskforce and Spain's influential El Mundo newspaper: " . . . (T)he popular

response to the rapid and chaotic installation of some 30.000 mobile phone

antennas in Spain has been impressive. Because of judicial rulings (in a few

cases) and because of pressure on municipal authorities (in the majority of

cases) the mobile phone providers have had to disconnect and dismantle 2.000

already-installed antennas. "

 

In Switzerland, an initiative to amend the Swiss Constitution and called

" Moratorium on Mobile Telephone Antennas " would stop the construction of

antennas particularly for " mobile telephony " as long as " the harmlessness of

pulsed non-ionizing radiation, and of pulsed magnetic or electromagnetic fields,

taking into account their non-thermal effects, has not been demonstrated. " The

signature-gathering deadline is Sept. 12, 2003.

 

In Oregon, Dr. William Morton, a professor at Oregon Health Sciences University

(OHSU) who pioneered studies into multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) and

their apparent relationship to porphyria and became one of a handful of

physicians with experience in diagnosing and documenting electrical sensitivity

(ES) chose to give up his medical license on Jan. 19 rather than continue to

face a raft of complaints and allegations of misdiagnosis and further

investigation by the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners. The Task Force noted

that the widely respected physician and researcher will continue teaching at

OHSU School of Medicine and continue to do research into MCS and ES.

 

In France, Dr. Robert Santini, a veteran researcher in " bioelectromagnetics " ,

said he had been forbidden by the director of the government laboratory with

which he has long been associated from speaking to journalists, politicians and

other researchers about " cellular phone and base station bio-effects. "

 

On March 6 and at the request of two senators, he told the Parliamentary Office

for the Evaluation of Science and Technology Choices: " We are witnessing today

the development of pressure aimed at discrediting, within their institutions,

certain researchers and their findings. These campaigns of moral and

professional harassment are orchestrated, in particular, by certain cell phone

providers, public health bodies and elected officials. Some scientists who work

on the problem of the biological effects of cell phones and relay stations have

recently been made the object, following these pressures, of discriminatory

measures on the part of their institutions: firing, professional change, change

of research topic, blockage of career, loss of collaborators, ban on speaking. "

 

He referred to three examples of noted scientists in France and the case of

Claudio Gomez Perretta MD in Valencia, Spain, who on Feb. 25 - four days after

he wrote a letter to the Valencia Medical Assn. Expressing his concern that the

Spanish equivalent of the American Medical Association had taken no position on

the matter of HF EMF problems - was notified that he must discontinue his work

on electromagnetic fields immediately.

 

In his letter he reminded the local medical body: " Let us remember that there

were once commissions that denied the dangers of tobacco, asbestos, and

therapeutic X-rays. "

 

In Sweden, a group of victims of electromagnetic sensitivity asked the prime

minister and the prestigious Karolinska Institute not to proceed with threats to

close down Karolinska's Unit for Experimental Dermatology, whose Prof. Olle

Johansson has produced some of the most riveting scientific questioning of the

safety of cell phones and related devices.

 

Said the Association for the Electrically Sensitive in Orebro County, Sweden,

last Oct. 3 on hearing of a cut-off in funds for Prof. Johansson: " We see the

lack of research funding and space as an affront not only to a scientist in whom

we have great confidence but also to us and the handicapped organization to

which we belong " .

 

In Germany, veteran medical physicist and researcher Dr. Lebrecht von Klitzing

of the Medical University of Lubeck was forbidden by the University dean to

address the German Bundestag (parliament) on the medical effects of cell phones,

claiming such a presentation would damage the university's reputation.

 

The Task Force reported that von Klitzing, forbidden to do any more research on

his own, resigned from the university in March in order to continue his

research.

 

In England, Dr. Gerald Hyland, University of Warwick, took early retirement in

March following high-level pressures against his research into the

biocompatibility of magnetic fields with the human organism.

 

In Bangkok, Thailand, the English language Nation newspaper reporting May 24 on

the near-ubiquity of mobile phones among Thai teenagers ( " many teens today are

utterly devoted to their mobiles, even to the extent that they regard them as an

extra limb " ) accompanied its in-depth coverage with the following recitation of

health risks known to be associated with the omnipresent gadgets.

 

A study published in the UK (in April) suggested mobile phone use may be as

addictive for teenagers as smoking.

 

A recent British study reported that phone driving is more dangerous than drunk

driving. The Transport Research Laboratory found reaction times for those

driving on the phone was 30 percent slower than those driving drunk and nearly

50 percent worse than someone sober and not using a cell phone.

 

The (Thai) Ministry of Public Health in 2001 recommended that people under 12

should not use a mobile phone, while studies on health risks - particularly the

links to brain cancer - are underway by the World Health Organization.

 

In 2000, a study by Action on Smoking and Health in London found a number of

common traits, including the desire to rebel, prevalent among smokers as well as

young cell-phone users.

 

A recent study by the Physicists Association in Japan warned of the harm of

using mobile phones in passenger trains. Researchers said, " Passengers might be

harmed by microwaves emitted from phones, which reflect on the train's metal

structure and accumulate on the passengers. " The researchers suggested there

should be a ban on the use of mobile phones in trains, busses and elevators.

 

In her March 9 interview. WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland MD, a

former prime minister who said she has never owned a mobile phone herself and

that there now is reason to be cautious about the technology, told Dagbladet's

Aud Dalsegg: " In the beginning I felt a local warmth around my ear. But the

problem grew worse, and turned into a strong discomfort and headaches every time

I used a mobile phone. "

 

At first she tried to avoid the pain by cutting her calls short, but this did

not work. Nor was it sufficient to stop using the phones herself, because

everyone around her, including at her workplace at the WHO in Geneva, used them.

" I gradually understood that I had developed a sensitivity to this type of

radiation, " she said, " and in order not to be suspected of being hysterical -

that someone should believe that this was only something I imagined - I have

made several tests: People have been in my office with their mobile phone hidden

in their bag or pocket. Without my knowing whether it was off or on, we have

tested my reaction. I have always reacted when the phone has been on - never

when it is off. So there is no doubt. "

 

As for wireless home phones, Brundtland said: " I get an instant reaction if I

touch such a phone. "

 

She also spoke about her reactions to computers: " If I hold a laptop in order to

read what is on the screen it feels as if I get an electric shock up through my

arms. So I must keep portable computers away from me. I have a regular desktop

computer in my office, but only the secretary uses it. I have not noticed the

same symptoms near it, but I turn it off as soon as I come in " . The headaches

she gets from mobile phone radiation subside about a half hour to an hour after

the exposure stops, she said.

 

Last year, the ICHF reported (ICHF V:2, 2001) on 20 years of Western-suppressed

research from the former East Bloc which suggests the " micro blitzing " of the

human race by what was variously described as low-intensity but high-frequency

electromagnetic fields or radiation (HF EMF, HF EMR) coming from cell phones,

computers, television, antennas and a wide range of electrical marvels.

 

Research primarily from Russia and the Ukraine connected such radiation to

immune disorders, environmental diseases, cancer, neurological impairment and

even a physically based addiction syndrome to computer use. " It can be proposed

that the current increase in electromagnetic pollution of the environment

exceeds human adaptation capacities, " warned Ukrainian researchers Nikolai

Nikolaevich Kositsky, Aljona Igorevna Nizhelska and Grigory Vasil'evich Ponezha.

 

Where to learn more:

 

(Important information in this area is available from the Cellular Phone

Taskforce, PO Box 1337, Mendocino CA 95460 - not available through the internet.

Its publication No Place to Hide is must reading. Other resources include:

 

Chemical injury Information Network, Cynthia Wilson, Director, PO Box 301, White

Sulphur Springs MT 59645.

 

The Electromagnetic Research Foundation, c/o Dr. Duane Dahlberg, 1317 Sixth Ave.

N., Moorhead MN 56560.

 

Disability Council of the White Mountains, c/o Susan Molloy, PO Box 483,

Snowflake AZ 85937.

 

EMR Network, Janet Newton, President, PO Box 221, Marshfield VT 05658.

 

Heavy Metal Bulletin: international forum focusing on immunotoxic effects of

dental fillings and related disorders, Monica Kauppi, Editor, Lilla Aspuddsv.

10, S-12649 Hagersten, Sweden.

 

Electromagnetic Radiation Task Force Canada, Milt Bowling, Director, 3570

Corsica Way, Vancouver BC, V5S 4J3, Canada.

 

Council on Wireless Technology Impact, Libby Kelley, Executive Director, PMB

206, 936-B 7th St., Novato CA 94945.

 

- MLC

 

This article was found in ICHF (International Council for Health Freedom)

Newsletter Vol. VI, Nos. 3-4 published by ICHF, 5580 La Jolla Blvd, PMB429, La

Jolla Ca 92037.

Tel. (619) 702-1282.

Web contact: http://www.ichf.net

E-mail: ccichf

Original title: Cell phones, etc: industry muzzles and punishes those who dare

say they are dangerous to health

 

 

 

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