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Re: Electromagnetic fields
Ruth Weiner wrote:
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:38:46 -0600
From: "ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>
Subject: Re: ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS COULD HELP PROMOTE CANCERS
I thought this had been settled a few years ago and the evidence that there
is no effect was published in Physics Today Letters.
Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
and Barbara Reider wrote:
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:42:16 EDT
From: BLReider@aol.com
Subject: Re: ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS COULD HELP PROMOTE CANCERS
Yale has done some research in this area. I don't offhand remember the names
of the researchers, but they were a physicist and biologist team. They gave
a presentation of their work and I recall the gist of it being:
1. The local EM fields within cells are so great that the external EM fields
from power lines, etc. are noise in comparison.
2. In high EM fileds, the only response observed in mammals was increased
sweating. This is an acure response, I do not remember whether they were
studying chronic exposures.
Barbara Reider, CHP
Reider Radiation Consulting LLC
and Jim Dukelow comments:
The issue is "settled" in the mind of Robert Park, Yale physicist, author, and
frequent talking head. I suspect he was involved with both the Physics Today
Letters and the Yale research.
My impression of the research, some of which has been done here at the
laboratory, it that both the epidemiology and the experimental biology are all
over the map. Some of both suggest that there is an effect, but there is no
convincing explanation for why. I would note that birds navigate the world
using magnetic fields that are weaker than those of concern for ELF EMF research
and that mammalian neurons are jam-packed with minute magnetite particles.
When you want to "settle" questions in physics, do you go to the journals of the
Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology?
Best regards.
Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
jim.dukelow@pnl.gov
These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my
management or by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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