Re: Well, seems like they lied (more BOLLOX)
- From: "RT" <noreply.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:51:18 -0000
Do you have a mobile phone ? if so what is the coverage like in your area ?
"lenny" <lenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> 1.8 times more acoustic neuroma after ten years mobile phone use was found
> http://at-de.i-newswire.com/pr15142.html
> http://openpr.com/news/3606
>
> Again misinformation to the media
>
> October 2005, Interphone researchers did not inform the public that 1.8
> times more acoustic neuroma after ten years mobile phone use was found.
> Instead, they told the media that there is no heightened risk (Interphone
> study by M.J. Schoemaker, A.J. Swerdlow, S.J. Hepworth, P.A. McKinney, A.
> Ahlbom and others). Reuters forwarded the message to the world apparently
> without checking the report.
>
> See: http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v93/n7/index.html (last item) and:
> http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050901_neuroma.asp
>
> January 2006, they did not inform the public that significantly more
> glioma was found at the side of mobile phone use, and significantly less
> glioma was found at the non-side. They told the media that the
> participants did not remember the side they used, and that a pattern was
> not seen for handedness (Interphone study by S.J. Hepworth, M.J.
> Schoemaker, A.J. Swerdlow, P.A. MacKinney and others. Yes, the same
> researchers). Reuters forwarded the message without checking the truth: a
> person's preferred hand for holding a mobile phone cannot be predicted
> from knowledge of their hand dominance.
>
> See: http://www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/LINNETT_1.pdf and:
> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/rapidpdf/bmj.38720.687975.55v1
>
> The researchers left out about 49% of the patients with glioma, because
> they died rapidly. They analysed the other patients, found no increased
> risk and concluded that the ones who died rapidly could not make a
> difference.
>
> The researchers write, that radiofrequency fields emitted by mobile phones
> are thought to be unable to cause malignancies by damage to DNA. Well,
> that is the paradigma that should be left. Instead, the Interphone studies
> take it for granted, though it has been shown by many studies that DNA is
> damaged by electromagnetic fields (Lai and Singh (Verenigde Staten),
> Adlkofer (Reflex, EU), Zhengping Xu (China), Xu Xi Shan (Korea) and
> others).
>
> The Interphone studies are funded by the EU, the Mobile Manufacturers
> Forum and the GSM Association. The United Kingdom studies are funded by
> the Department of Health and five netwerk operators.
>
> The University of Leeds also received some financial support from five
> mobile network operators. One of the researchers has received funding from
> four mobile network operators before, for a feasibility study.
>
> Research funded by network operators and mobile phone organisations tends
> to find nothing.
>
> See: http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAE3A.htm and elsewhere.
>
> The researchers say, their results are consistent with studies showing a
> lack of convincing and consistent evidence of any effect of exposure to
> radiofrequency field on risk of cancer. Who says so? 'Epidemiology of
> health effects of radiofrequency exposure' (A. Ahlbom, D. Swerdlow and
> others. Yes, they are authors of the Interphone acoustic neuroma study)
> and 'Health risks of electromagnetic fields' (M. Repacholi and others.
> Repacholi is the coordinator of the EMF-radiation project of the WHO. He
> is the one who discards all the research showing evidence). Studies who
> find associations between tumours and mobile phone use are called
> 'individual', a word used by Repacholi who calls effects of
> electromagnetic fields 'a myth'.
>
> As usual, future studies will be able to address longer latency periods.
>
> Frans.
>
>
>
> Here is the link to the press release (in German)
>
> http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news144621
>
> Regards, Frans
>
> German Interphone study finds increased risk after ten years of mobile
> phone use
>
> The Interphone study in Germany has found a double risk of glioma after
> more than ten years of mobile phone use. The group of long-term users was
> relatively small and part of them has been using the 450 MHz analogue
> system too. The elevated risk can be the result of a statistical
> deficiency or an unknown cause. Therefore a press release of Bielefeld
> University says, mobile phone use does not increase the risk of brain
> tumours. However, the elevated risk is remarkable, because it is most
> plausible in the group of long-term users, according to the press release.
>
> Two Interphone studies in Great Britain found elevated risks of acoustic
> neuroma and glioma. In both cases press releases did not mention an
> elevated risk. The European Interphone studies are done in 13 countries.
> The studies are financed partially by the Mobile Manufacturer's Forum and
> the GSM Association. The German study was partially paid by the
> Mobilfunkforschungsprogramm of the Bundesregierung, two ministries and
> Mainz University. The German study was conducted by J. Schüz of the
> Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, Denmarkt. He was also
> involved in the Danish Interphone study.
>
>
> From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
>
.
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