MTHR
Issues Third Call for Research Proposals
The MTHR
management committee also announced a third call for research proposals,specifically
in two areas where they identified a need for more study.
PsychoSocial
Studies
MTHR identified
the following areas as those it considers to be of highest priority and
relevance to this research program:
1.The impact
of adopting a precautionary approach to the management of potential mobile
phone health risks on the risk perception and behaviour of groups and/or
individuals.
2.The evaluation
of efforts to communicate information about potential mobile phone health
risks.
Volunteer
Studies: General and Special Populations
MTHR identified
the following areas of highest priority and relevance:
1. A preliminary
study to define the inclusion and exclusion criteria for members of volunteer
and control groups in a provocation study.The volunteer group would consist
of individuals who attribute symptoms of acute ill health to their exposure
to emissions from base stations.
2. A provocation
study investigating the basis of symptoms attributed by the volunteer
group,as defined in the above investigation,to their exposure to base
station emissions.
Detailed
specifications are available on line at www.mthr.org.uk/mobile
Lawrence
Challis
AT
MTHR, WHO SUPPORTS BASE STATION EPIDEMIOLOGY
Britain's
Royal Society was the setting of a Mobile Telecommunications Health Research
(MTHR)meeting on Nov.11/12 in London.The seminar was intended to update
participants on the progress of the MTHR program and other matters related
to the U.K.government's research agenda on possible health effects of
mobile phones and related technology, organizers said.
After an
introduction by Sir William Stewart,chair of the MTHR management committee,
eight speakers briefly summarized their institutions, mobile telecommunications
health or biological effects research programs, or perspective on research.
Clemens Dasenbrock of Fraunhofer ITA,Hannover,Germany,summarized European
Union-sponsored Research into possible health effects; Mays Swicord, Motorola
Research Laboratories,talked about ways that industry can contribute to
research agenda-setting;Guglielmo d 'Inzeo of the University of Rome La
Sapienza, Italy,,spoke on research activities there, and Kjell Hansson
Mild,Institute for Working Life, Umeå, summarize research in Sweden.
Also,summaries
were delivered by Gerd Freidrich of FGF, Germany; Donald Cameron, National
Health and Medical Reserach Council of Australia; Bernard Veyret,University
of Bordeaux,France,and Maila Hietanen,Finnish Institute of Occupational
Health.
For the
World Health Organization (WHO)International EMF Project, Geneva, Leeka
Kheifets reviewed the WHO definition of health, a factor distinguishing
the organization's approach to EMF policy from that of other groups.WHO
asserts that health is not simply the absence of disease, but that it
includes each individual's sense of well being. This may make life difficult
for those of us who like a hard outcome, Kheifets said, but it leaves
us with the question of what do we do with people's concern.
One answer,she
suggested,is that despite the fact that some scientists feel epidemiologic
investigation of possible health effects from RF exposure from mobile
telephone base stations is not feasible or necessary, Kheifets submitted
that the research will be done because it may answer many citizens' urgent
questions. So the question is not whether to do it, Kheifets said it's
how to make it better.
Kheifets
urged governments and the scientists in the room to design studies to
assess risk from mobile telephone use among children and to begin seriously
discussing the implications of adopting the Precautionary Principle (PP)
with regard to mobile telecommunications. She announced a WHO-sponsored
workshop in February 2003 in Luxembourg to be devoted to discussing the
principle. Items for discussion will be when to invoke the PP, how to
apply it in a consistent manner, what burden of proof and strength of
evidence are needed,how to make the remedy proportional to the risk, how
to make the policy open to review,and the importance of supporting the
PP with a cost-benefit analyses.
http://www.bioelectromagnetics.org/newsletter/news169.pdf?PHPSESSID=ea27b3adf76e453737d3439c8a8ef68a
Informant:
elektrosmognews, Germany
BBC News
/ Wednesday, 18 December, 2002, 17:58 GMT
Mr
Chips or Microchips?
BBC Radio
4's Analysis: 'Mr Chips or Microchips?' was broadcast on Thursday, 26
December 2002 at 8.30 pm.
Computers
have been hailed as the transformers of education, a dazzling technology
that changes the whole nature of learning, reduces the burdens on teachers
and equips everyone for the modern economy.
Yet disturbing
evidence is emerging that computers may harm, rather than help, educational
progress. There is still much debate among even the most enthusiastic
supporters of high technology about how computers can best be used.
In Mr Chips
or Microchips? Frances Cairncross talks to leading experts on both sides
of the Atlantic, including Professor Sherry Turkle of MIT, Yasmin Valli
of Leeds Metropolitan University and Robin Reynolds of the UK government's
education agency BECTA.
She examines
what computerised education means in practice, and how it relates to traditional
educational priorities in numeracy and literacy.
She hears
how computers used imaginatively can help special groups succeed where
more conventional education fails them.
But hears
of classroom problems when internet surfing runs wild, and how, despite
the hype, traditional educational skills are more important than ever
if we are to make the most of new technology.
Presenter:
Frances Cairncross
Producer: Chris Bowlby
Editor: Nicola Meyrick
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/analysis/2587965.stm
Dear friends,
Pakistan
is joining us:
helo
i m male from pakistan, like to join u i appriciate your step to ward
electronic polution. i like to get information from u and supply to every
one in my countrywaiting your reply thanks
iqbal
Hi Klaus:
So you came to the rescue immediately and set up exactly what we, electrosensitives,
needed in record time. Well done and a big thank you! And what more appropriate
matrix could we have than one named THE IDEALIST! Also love your mission
statement posted there.
Best,
Imelda, Cork
Re: Hi Imelda,
its open for all under:
http://www.idealist.org/en/ip/idealist/MessageBoard/Viewer/default?SID=217eb6f58b2549e4c7575da25bc93606
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