Posted on 01/23/2005 7:05:01 PM PST by aculeus
Scientists and health advisers are taking the claims of people who say electricity makes them ill seriously for the first time.
The National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) is carrying out a review of existing scientific studies into "electromagnetic hypersensitivity" (EHS).
Two studies into the condition, funded with £750,000 from the Department of Health and the telecommunications industry, are already under way.
Sir William Stewart, the government's adviser on radiation, has called for more research into the issue.
Some researchers believe a proportion of the population suffers ill health, with symptoms including fatigue, severe headaches and skin problems, because of exposure to electromagnetic fields. Other scientists say there is no evidence.
The Swedish government, which recognised EHS as a physical impairment in 2000, calculates that 3.1 per cent of its population – 200,000 people – suffer from the condition. A recent warning by Sir William, head of the NRPB and the Health Protection Agency, that parents should limit their children's use of mobile phones received widespread publicity.
However, his suggestion that another section of the population, as well as the young, could have extra sensitivity to exposure to either radio frequency fields from mobiles or electromagnetic fields in general did not.
The NRPB has commissioned Dr Neil Irvine, of the Health Protection Agency, to carry out a review of existing scientific literature on EHS.
His report, focusing on symptoms, prognosis and treatment, will be published in the summer.
The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, funded by the Government and the telecommunications industry, is spending £8.6 million on 29 studies, two of which will investigate EHS.
A team at King's College, London, is looking at whether mobile phones cause symptoms such as headaches, nausea and fatigue in those who claim to be hypersensitive and those who do not.
Researchers at the University of Essex are exposing two groups of volunteers to signals from a mobile mast to test if cognitive functions such as attention span and memory are affected. Half will be people who say they suffer EHS.
Dr David Dowson, a former GP who is now a complementary medicine specialist based in Bath, said he had seen around 10 patients he believed to be suffering from EHS. "I think the condition is increasing in prevalence, because we are living in a more electrically polluted environment."
Olle Johansson, associate professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, has been studying EHS for 20 years.
He has shown in experiments that there is an increase in the number of mast cells near the surface of skin when exposed to electromagnetic fields, a similar reaction to that when it is exposed to radioactive material.
He said: "If you put a radio near a source of EMFs you will get interference. The human brain has an electric field so if you put sources of EMFs nearby, it is not surprising that you get interference, interaction with systems and damage to cells and molecules.''
Others say the condition is in the mind.
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Are you an electrical engineer or a scientist working in this field?
I seriously question whether or not "como types" even know what a beeber is, let alone how to change the setting to 'stun'.
LVM
Time for a new decoder ring.
This one has been compromised.
LVM
Did you mean to write "Faraday cage?"
If Gates did what you say he did, it is to prevent RF energy from leaking OUT of his complex, not in. (Think TEMPEST hardening.) IOW, he doesn't want some smart ass sitting 100yds off the shore from his mansion in a boat loaded with all sorts of sophisticated and sensitive monitoring gear that can read what is being written to his PC monitor screen, or signals sent to his PC's printer.... (or, more likely, to be able to glean info about security at the mansion)
After all, all the gear INSIDE his house is still radiating RF energy all over him, right? The cage around the house doesn't protect him from that..... But it does thwart nosey maritime RF sniffing techies from violating his cyber-privacy.
BTTT!!!!!
I don't know where to find the information quickly but I have read somewhere that low level exposure to things that would harm us in high exposure, may actually be GOOD for us. It may have been an article here on FR. I do think we try to hyper eradicate any threat and sometimes end up more vulnerable but we don't know it and we FEEL safe. Follow the money and the lawyers and the wackos.
Screen room?
It is safe now, you can take your tin foil hat off. :)
Yes, I am in communications. I am licensed to broadcast on many frequencies: 50-54 MHz, 144-148 MHz, 420-450 MHz and up.
Forgot to get my "screen room", though. All my signals are escaping.
LVM
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LVM
RYs is as close as you can get 010101. this is the pattern you listen for to see if the equipment you testing is "leaking" or "talking".
I was close.
LVM
Carolyn
funded with £750,000 from the Department of Health and the telecommunications industry....AYUP, there's the source of this problem.
What the hell is "como types" - ?
Guys who wear sweaters, sing kind of baritone and like love songs.
I had a scarmabled como type once.
Welcome to the Democratic Party!
It's the other way around - athermal effects are less likely at low frequencies. IIRC the human head tends to resonate right around 800 MHz.
This table shows the maximum allowed power before the FCC requries an RF safety evaluation. 2 MHz it's 500 W, dropping to 425 W at 10.1 MHz, to 50 W at 28 MHz, back up to 70 W at 420 MHz, and at 2.3 GHz or greater it's 250 W.
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