Re: (fwd) Cell Phone Cancer Study
As follow up to the Stewart Fist report on new findings of cell-phone hazards, the Jerusalem Post says that the report is causing alarm in Israel -- where cell-phones are heavily used -- and that the government intends to investigate. Motorola et al are hunkered. The scientific study is in the journal "Radiation Research," Volume 147, Number 5, May 1997: http://www.cjp.com/radres/html/may97toc.htm Michael H. Repacholi, Antony Basten, Val Gebski, Denise Noonan, John Finnie and Alan W. Harris "Lymphomas in Emu-Pim1 Transgenic Mice Exposed to Pulsed 900 MHz Electromagnetic Fields" (p. 631) However, there is not an on-line version, unless someone knows of it elsewhere. What say the cellular folks here to this story?
While I am not involved with the cellular area of Qualcomm, I am familiar with the publishing policies of Nature and Science as a reader of both for the last ten years. Neither journal shies away from controversy. We have only the author's say-so as to why their papers were rejected. To me Occams Razor suggests bad science as a better explanation than conspiracy. I sent the following to Stewart Fist:
|When presented to 'Science' magazine for publication the study was |rejected on the grounds that publication "would cause a panic".
Proof please. More likely Nature and Science rejected it because it was badly done science.
His response: |I don't offer proof. I am a journalist, and I just report what I was told |in interviews with the scientists involved. So there's been no confirmation or checking of the science involved, or why the papers were rejected by both an American and British science journal. /pbp
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