Prescription
for misperceptions from Dr. Repacholi
July 3... The RF problem is a result of
our misperceptions, according to the WHO's EMF project. The WHO would have us
believe that everything would be better if we would just focus on all the good
things that wireless technology is bringing into our lives instead of on those
trifling health risks. As Mike Repacholi told Gregor Dürrenberger of the Swiss Research
Foundation on Mobile Communications: "As technology progresses, people's
understanding of it is weak, causing a fear of the unknown, and, in their
minds, that EMF health effects may occur from long-term low-level
exposure."
That explains why the recent revision of the WHO's RF research agenda advocates a project to "quantify the health related beneficial
effects of wireless communications." Unanswered questions like whether RF
radiation can cause leakage through the blood-brain barrier did not make it
onto the WHO's agenda.
Bernard Veyret, a member of ICNIRP
and a Repacholi ally, endorses such wrong-headed priorities. In a comment
which, like the Repacholi interview, appears in the Swiss foundation's recently
released 2005 annual report, he writes that the need for health research is coming to an end. "By
now most of the experimental research has been performed and it is time to
address in depth the concerns of the public and the risk communications
needs."
So, it's all in our dysfunctional minds. We just need to think more clearly. Maybe
then, we too will come to appreciate the industry's view that it's time to stop
RF health research, promoted so ably by those charged with protecting public
health.
Source: http://www.microwavenews.com/