An expert in the field of electromagnetic radiation, Dr. Havas is concerned with what her research, and others, is discovering about wireless technology. ...
Mobile phone basestations and early childhood cancers: case-control study
BMJ gives free access to the study. However note what is going on with the funding language, is it only me or does this look like a joke-independent funded by the industry? Are they drunk or what? and what is the conclusion? No conflict of interests.
The economic newspaper Globes reports that Liztman - the Health Minister deputy - said that people who want to take care of themselves had better take distance from the antennas. He said that he saw "in my own eyes" how wireless antenna increased the radiation level in an apartment of a parent who died of cancer. He said soon there will be published results of a study he ordered on radiation and he is not afraid to fight the cellular companies and the media.
Another article says that the high court ordered the ministries of environment and communication to explain why the regulations of the cellular law delay for 3 years.
Yesterday evening a TV programm "what the cell companies hide from us" showed: A brain tumor victim who can hardly walk, Zvika, plans with the rest of his time to sue the companies. His tumor is at the same side of where he spoke. His wife told to the camera that if it's from the phone it's very sad. She talked of his intelectual ability deterioration. He is going to file a class action. Dan Shilon a respected TV journalist was hired by the companies to improve their image. He asked to receive full journlism freedom and got it but he also signed on a contract to keep everything in secret {...} he reached to too much info so they cancelled his programm (they funded it). I sent the item about it in the past, so now he was interviewed. He said that he had found phones are dangerous, and he things that clearly there is a problem with both the phones and antennas. The main person on Shilon's programm was supposed to be prof Sadezki she was interviewed and said that "it is very possible that there is a connection between phones and cancer" and that there are indications like time of use and same side. She said I am absolutely not saying let's stop using it but to speak wisely. To put the phone at distance from the body [her logic is not clear: isn't it the same logic like saying: let's use this wisely, by throwing it to the sea, isn't it like taking as much as distance from the body as possible. What kind of logic is she saying here I can't understand]. Yossi Riback was taken into focus: a professor of TV university, an occupational M.D who is hired by the cell companies is taken for a deep talk about it - he was asked: can it be that they are using you in order to whiten themselves in the eyes of the public? he answered: "absolute negative". He said that his opinion is consistent and it is OK that someone is doing a work and is paid for that. But this reflects what he thinks on the subject. COM device was used in order to show radiation from the phone to distance and recommending air tubes. Two measurement were taken of antenna - one before the cell phone companies knew about it and another afterwards they knew about the TV crew there. The first before 21 uW/cm2 After - 0.4 uW/cm2. Yael German, the maire of Herzelia was talking about the companies action to increase their wealth only - from rich companies to richer companies on the public's back. She resisted for long time to non informing the public on erection of antennas. The companies come to erect antennas at 2:00 AM middle of night like thieves in order to not be seen by the public. In the past she received a letter from Tal Zilberstein, who was consultant to Ehud Ulmert Israeli former prime minister, Tal was the spokesman for the cellular companies forum which is a PR office, Yael German said its job was to take care that none interferes with what they (companies) want to do. So she received a letter from Tal threatening her to disconnect her city from cellular communication because she runs a fear journey that throws salt in the eyes of the public in order to advance herself polictically. He wrote that if you want to diconnect your city from cellular connection it will be considered positively. She asks to inform the public on antennas. The Knesset made a law that enforced to have construction license for each antenna. Ofir Piner former MP who faught the companies: the companies have strong lobby and the public pays very expensive health price. Cellular forum reaction to everything: Whoever wants to talk safely has to understand that he has to have an antenna near his house. Stelian Galberg from the Env. ministry wrote to Yeal German that her lack of cooperation hurts the citizens because they are exposed to more radiation. That she must enable more antennas and it will profit the residents. All antennas stand in the standards. The two measurements before and after: the companies "were ready" to decrease the radiation from antennas after they were approached to. On Shilon: the movie was a part of a campaign of the forum to increase antennas, but they decided not to do it because they understood that without the support of the health and Env. ministry it would not receive the public trust.
Please share my views, about the cellphone reactions on yesterday broadcast, with all you contact list:
The cellphone companies will do everything in their power to:
* Spread the use of cellphone, even of children.
* Stop awareness about health issue of exposure to RF radiation and of using a mobile phone.
* Spread confusion, misinformation and dough about the risk of EMR radiation.
* Try to convince you that more cellphone antenna will reduce radiation levels (which is true only if the use stays the same reduction).
* Try to sell you more mobile phone's services that you don't really need like video, file and data download, mobile phone web service and so on.
Mobile phone use has increased dramatically during the last few year and will probably continue to increase in the years to come. All this mobile phone use will require more bandwidth that will result in exposing the public to more radiation, for more time both from the mobile phones and from the old and new mobile phones antenna.
All the cell phone companies want is more freedom to make more money from more mobile phone sold and mobile services consumed by more people (who are not aware of the danger) which will require using more antennas, all on the expense of the public health.
We, the part of the public which is already paying the health price for mobile and wireless communication, know the truth. We must make a stand and let everybody else know what we know. We don't have to wait for the body count!
In the past several years, America has been captivated by ?Reality TV.? Tens of thousands of people live vicariously through the lives of celebrities and others as they get married, get divorced, have children, open restaurants and show the world the extreme drama that is somehow labeled ?reality.? What is becoming evermore apparent is that the true realities of life in America........
The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Committee (MTHR) have spent £247,000 on a meaningless study published in the BMJ today apparently to "reassure parents" that living near a mobile phone base station will not put their child's life at risk.
Here is our Powerwatch response to the new BMJ Elliott pseudo-science paper. Please distribute widely.
The scientists, who have studied the impact of electromagnetic waves on human eye, say that usage of mobile can also lead to early cataract in lens apart ...
Eppertshausen - Ein Mobilfunksendemast ist ein heikles Thema, will doch jeder mit seinem Handy überall telefonieren können, aber keinen der strahlenden ...
Dabei geht es um den zweiten Mobilfunkmast, der auf einer Wiese hinter dem Sportzentrum mit einer Höhe von gut 40 Metern errichtet werden soll (wir ...
Michael Henry, the school's principal, is at his wit's end on how to deal with a mobile phone mast that etisalat has put up inches away from their premises. ...
Alternative Plätze für einen Funkmast hat die Initiative schon ausgesucht und will die an Pipke nachreichen. Dabei handelt es sich um neun Flächen rund um ...
Specific Health Symptoms and Cell Phone Radiation in Selbitz (Bavaria, Germany): Evidence of a Dose-Response Relationship
For Distribution:
Please distribute and share Dr. Horst Eger and Dr. Manfred Jahn's English-language translation of their peer-reviewed study, ?Spezifische Symptome und Mobilfunkstrahlung in Selbitz (Bayern) ? Evidenz für eine Dosiswirkungsbeziehung,? originally published in umwelt·medizin·gesellschaft, Feb. 2010: 130-139.
The study shows a significantly increased health risk in the vicinity of cell phone base stations and underscores the inadequacy of the currently accepted exposure limits. Discussion includes references to several past studies since the 1960s that supports their findings.
Thanks to this new English translation, this study can reach an even wider audience.
Special thanks to: Dr. Horst Eger and Dr. Manfred Jahn and the publisher for making this English translation possible; Ms. Katharina Gustavs for her English translation; Nancy Evans for recommending Katharina Gustavs translate this important study. The publishers affirm that this study has been peer-reviewed by their scientific board.
You must read the attached recent study. It overcomes purported methodological inadequacies attributed to prior studies, re the dangers of proximity to cell base stations. Statistical significance is carefully demonstrated, sample size is important, dosimetry superior to prior study, selection bias made irrelevant, multiple controls employed, etc. It fully confirms, as indicated in its discussion, what the WHO -- and all relying on it, like HC -- reject, supposedly methodologically inadequate studies condemning current standards of public exposure such as found in "Safety" Code 6.
I can summarize in English for you. This is an urgent must read, after which it is time to act decisively and quickly. It is not possible to claim scientific inadequacy any longer for those begging in the name of public health and safety to shut down cell base stations or drastically reduce their output, regardless of retention of functionality. The '07 Bioinitiative-suggested test levels are now thought to be too high even, as reported from an '09 conference in Norway.
The report concludes that the German standards, similar to our dangerous own, are invalid, citing voluminous learned literature already known even to the industry. It recommends a six-month shutdown of cell masts in the town studied, to further confirm symptom correlation. The further from transmitters, the lesser the health complaints, clear as can be.
What more evidence a public health agency can need to act boldly is not possible to imagine.
Daryl
- recent study
- local government & medical practitioners' participation
- many symptoms surveyed
- symptoms grouped for comparison purposes
- two control symptoms
- four sectors at increasing radii from cell base station
- sectoral average V/m provided
- fifth distant low exposure zone as control
- demographic match to general population
- statistical comparisons
- satisfactory response rate
- graphs and tables
- lengthy bibliography
- criticism of useless official study
- honest claim re DECT phones
- etc
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Erlanger Nachrichten Dass ein Mobilfunkbetreiber, wie Holger Klietsch sagte, einen Sendemast »ohne ein Mal bei uns anzurufen« bauen könne, akzeptiert die Bürgerinitiative nicht. ...
Meersburg (up) Nahezu unauffällig ist gestern ein neuer Sendemast am Wetterkreuz aufgestellt worden. Ein schwerer Autokran mit über 50 Meter langem Ausleger ...
Neuroepidemiology. 2010 Jun 15;35(2):109-114. [Epub ahead of print]
Mobile Phone Use and the Risk for Malignant Brain Tumors: A Case-Control Study on Deceased Cases and Controls.
Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson Mild K.
Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden.
Abstract
We investigated the use of mobile or cordless phones and the risk for malignant brain tumors in a group of deceased cases. Most previous studies have either left out deceased cases of brain tumors or matched them to living controls and therefore a study matching deceased cases to deceased controls is warranted. Recall error is one issue since it has been claimed that increased risks reported in some studies could be due to cases blaming mobile phones as a cause of the disease. This should be of less importance for deceased cases and if cancer controls are used. In this study brain tumor cases aged 20-80 years diagnosed during 1997-2003 that had died before inclusion in our previous studies on the same topic were included. Two control groups were used: one with controls that had died from another type of cancer than brain tumor and one with controls that had died from other diseases. Exposure was assessed by a questionnaire sent to the next-of-kin for both cases and controls. Replies were obtained for 346 (75%) cases, 343 (74%) cancer controls and 276 (60%) controls with other diseases. Use of mobile phones gave an increased risk, highest in the >10 years' latency group yielding odds ratio (OR) = 2.4, and 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.4-4.1. The risk increased with cumulative number of lifetime hours for use, and was highest in the >2,000 h group (OR = 3.4, 95% CI = 1.6-7.1). No clear association was found for use of cordless phones, although OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 0.8-3.4 was found in the group with >2,000 h of cumulative use. This investigation confirmed our previous results of an association between mobile phone use and malignant brain tumors.
Mobile Phone Use and Brain Cancer: Is the Association Biased?
Michael Kundi Institute of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
For the time being, evidence collected in epidemiological studies points rather to an underestimation of risk from mobile phone use and less bias in the Hardell studies as compared to those of the Interphone group that are affected by selection and possibly also by misclassification bias.
Danish writer and researcher Thomas Grønborg has done a video interview with Mast-Victims staff on the problems with INTERPHONE.
It's a short video, only five minutes, called "INTERPHONE: A reliable study on cell phone risks?". Some of the design flaws of the World Health Organisation's INTERPHONE study are discussed and how those minimized the chances of finding brain cancer risk from mobile-phone radiation.
Swedish Experts dismiss study on "mobile master's harmlessness" for small children: "It is not science. It is propaganda "
Susanne Larsson, The Epoch Times Sweden
29/06/2010 08:41
A child pretends to talk to his grandmother in a mobile phone in London 11 January 2005. Parents in Britain were asked then to restrict children's use of mobile phones after Sir William Stewart's study showed that the time might be health risks. (Photo: Adrian Dennis / AFP)
According to a new study should not pose any increased risk for small children to live near a mobilmast. The study's credibility is questioned by the expert Mona Nilsson, who dismiss it as pure propaganda to defend economic interests.
The study has just reached the public by Sveriges Television (Report) and TT, according to journalist and environmental economist Mona Nilsson partially funded by the mobile industry and scientists have not really checked how much radiation from mobile phone masts or mobile base stations that the children actually suffered, she says.
Mona Nilsson for many years monitored the issue of risks associated with wireless communications and some time ago, her new book "mobile radio health risks - facts about our greatest environmental and health scandal". The book is a successor to the book "Game of 3G - facts and disinformation in the wireless community."
According to Mona Nilsson study is an example of industry-driven research:
"The data estimates of children's exposure during fetal life was based on, which in turn formed the basis for the mobile industry's new joyful, came entirely from the right mobile industry. This is not science. It is propaganda to defend the huge economic interests. The aim is to lull the public and policymakers into a false security about the risks of forced exposure in people's own homes as mobile phone technology inevitably entails," she writes in a press release.
After many years has followed the debate around mobile telephony Mona Nilsson has raised the question the uncritical media coverage in Sweden.
"This is the third time in only a few months as the general public in Sweden were deceived by the uncritical media who can not see through the manipulation of science. In February, claimed Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) that it was "highly unlikely" that the transmitters such as mobile telephony, wireless networking or broadcasting carries an increased cancer risk.
No journalist reviewed the foundations of the baseless claim, which, incidentally, is unlikely, like BP's assertion in February that it would be "unlikely" that an oil leak could occur in the Gulf of Mexico. Repeated studies have shown that contrary mobile radiation is carcinogenic," said Mona Nilsson.
Over the years, Mona studied all reports of the electromagnetic radiation health effects on humans, animals and nature, and the result is clearly disappointing and, believe Mona Nilsson who is disappointed that the authorities and industry tone down and cover up the risks.
- I also confirmed the cancer risks of which it has long been observed in the real world. Far too many reports of unusual occurrences of cancer near the mobile towers are already documented. Several have been removed since many children had abnormal cancer in the neighborhood. Now you want to use this study who did not say anything about cancer risks, to suggest that abnormal accumulations of cancer around mobile phone masts are not due to radiation. It is very cynical, "says Mona Nilsson for The Epoch Times.
According to the French newspaper Le Progrès, Lyon has decided to remove a mobilmast and off three other schools during school hours in Victor Hugo, after the children affected by cancer. Mobile must be set very close to their classrooms and it has brought strong protests from parents of school children. It also requires that the threshold for permissible radiation is reduced and that independent measurements of radiation levels is carried out continuously. Cellular Antennas have also been removed from other schools' proximity to France.
In the Spanish city of Valladolid is the school Garcia Quintana, which have been featured in the Lancet. On a roof 42 feet from the school was a forest of 60 antennas. A number of children that have been affected by cancer within one year after the antennas were set up - before then, the school's 32-year history has never been any cases of childhood cancer. School children's parents kept their children home as long as the antennas are not switched off. A judge ordered that the antennas must be shut down.
As an example of incorrect media reporting takes Mona Nilsson up to the international Interphone Study, which had allegedly come to the conclusion that cell phones would not increase the risk of brain tumors, although the study actually showed that the current normal user runs between 40 and 100 percent increased risk of fatal brain tumor.
The study results confirmed the Swedish Research Hardellgruppens from Örebro showed increased brain tumor risk, particularly for young people where the risk was increased by up to 700 percent, not the media should have reported.
One month after the Interphone study was the Australian Radiation Protection Agency urged children to limit mobile phone use, says Mona Nilsson.
She says that authorities worldwide recognize that children are more sensitive to radiation, but not the Swedish Radiation Protection authorities. In many countries, calls on children to reduce the use of mobile phone. In Sweden, the media reported that the Interphone study showed no risk, but most international media have written that the Interphone show that cell phone increases the risk of brain tumors.
Mona Nilsson believes that this is completely unacceptable, the public must be critical and objective reporting of the issue:
"Journalists must understand that research is a minefield and begin to become aware of the ongoing corruption of science whose purpose is to protect economic interests."
From: Sylvie
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 11:35 AM
Subject: Tunisia The court has recognized the danger of masts
Antenna relay Newspaper - The Court of Appeal of Tunis ordered the dismantling of a base station installed on the roof of a villa in a residential neighborhood in the capital on behalf of uncertainties about its impact on health of residents. Seized in an emergency procedure by the trustee of the local residents, the judge ruled that the risk was significant for the health of residents on the basis of a report of an expert appointed for this purpose. The latter noted that electromagnetic waves generated by antennas can have adverse health effects even if they are installed at a distance of 100 meters.
Referring to Article 99 of the Code of Obligations and Contracts, Court of Appeal held that "even if the current science can not determine with certainty the exact impact of electromagnetic orders, there is a risk impact on the health of residents.
This decision has confirmed the sentence imposed earlier by the Court of Appeal Sfax against one of the mobile operators, whereas the presence of an antenna relay near habitation is a disorder Neighbourhood serviceable disassembly of the antenna.
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by Alexander Binik, Executive Director, DE-Toxics Institute, Fairfax, CA February 8, 2010
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