Protest outside the EU Parliament on 16th November

[Guest guest]

all European Anti-Emf organizations

Dear all,

The 2011 International Scientific Conference on EMF and Health will take plake

on the 16th and the 17th of November 2011 at the European Parliament in

Brussels.

This conference is organized under the auspices of the European Commission's

Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR).

Althus it is the most important electrosmog-conference for all 27 countries of

the European Union!

As can be seen from the programme here:

http://www.onetec.be/EMF2011/programme.html

many speakers are invited, but most if not all of them are directly or

indirectly linked to the telecom industry.

And none of the scientists of whom their research has proven that there are

harmful health effects of pulsed microwave radiation are invited to speak at the

conference! We for instance refer to the following non-invited independent

scientists and emf-specialists: L. Hardell, H. Lai, M. Kundi, F. Adlkofer, G.

Oberfeld, O. Johansson, M. Havas etc. All of them have confirmed that they have

not been invited at this conference.

As we know, the exponential rise of electrosmog in the past decade in every

house, school and city has become a major threat to public health. The health of

children, millions of electrosensitives and future generations is at stake here!

The politicians and the general public need to realize that public health is the

utmost important and act accordingly.

That's why during the conference we will protest at the entrance of the EU

Parliament on Wednesday the 16th of November.

We demand:

- much less electrosmog with a regulation that fully applies the precautionary

principle

- recognition of electrohypersensitivity as a functional impairment (as in

Sweden)

We are convinced this EU-conference is the perfect opportunity for us, for the

European Anti-Emf Organizations to cooperate and unite our protest.

With this we invite you to protest together with us. Please keep us posted via

e-mail at:

steven@...

Thank you,

Boone (StopUMTS.be)

Luc Leenders (StralingsArmVlaanderen.org)

Duchateau (StralingsArmVlaanderen.org)

Gérald Hanotiaux (Collectif Dé-Mobilisation)

[Guest guest]

It seems to be the same old story with these types of events. Maintaining the

status quo. I only recognise three names from the list of participants (at least

I think they're the same people I've come across before), beth Cardis,

Norbert Leitgeb, and Rubin. beth Cardis was director of the

Interphone studies, which announced that there was no evidence that mobile

phones cause cancer. She then went on to say in an interview that:

" In my personal opinion, I think we have a number of elements that suggest a

possible increased risk among the heaviest users, and because the heaviest users

in our study are considered the low users today, I think that's something of

concern. Until stronger conclusions can be drawn one way or another it may be

reasonable to reduce one's exposure. " . See:

http://www.emfacts.com/2010/05/1260-elizabeth-cardis-on-the-interphone-findings/

Leitgeb has done some studies on electrosensitive sufferers, including one where

he tested magnetic field provocation using a magnetically shielded Helmholtz

coil for exposing forearms to magnetic field intensities up to 90 mT/50 Hz., and

concluded that :

" The results presented can be interpreted as evidence for the existence of the

phenomenon of electromagnetic hypersensitivity in terms of significantly

increased ability to perceive electric current densities. This constitutes a

necessary, but not a sufficient condition for EHS and does not prove that

environmental electric and magnetic fields are causally related to health

symptoms.

That the variability of electrosensibility, including hypersensibility, is

larger than estimated so far, but smaller than claimed by EHS self-aid groups,

is important for the discussion of whether the existing EMF exposure limits also

account for EHS subgroups. " He also reported that women are significantly more

sensitive to electricity than men, but that the reasons for this finding have

not been sufficiently explained yet. " See:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12929157

Rubin is the researcher the telecommunications industry often puts forward

to refute any causal relation between EMFs and electrosensitivity. Rubin did a

review of 31 experiments on electosensitive sufferers, and found that :

" Results: Thirty-one experiments testing 725 " electromagnetically

hypersensitive " participants were identified. Twenty-four of these found no

evidence to support the existence of a biophysical hypersensitivity, whereas 7

reported some supporting evidence. For 2 of these 7, the same research groups

subsequently tried and failed to replicate their findings. In 3 more, the

positive results appear to be statistical artefacts. The final 2 studies gave

mutually incompatible results. Our metaanalyses found no evidence of an improved

ability to detect EMF in " hypersensitive " participants. Conclusions: The

symptoms described by " electromagnetic hypersensitivity " sufferers can be severe

and are sometimes disabling. However, it has proved difficult to show under

blind conditions that exposure to EMF can trigger these symptoms. This suggests

that " electromagnetic hypersensitivity " is unrelated to the presence of EMF,

although more research into this phenomenon is required. " See:

http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/67/2/224.abstract

I have seen his name put forward several times by mobile industry and others who

downplay electrosensitivity.

The thing that is constantly ignored is that all of these tests were probably

totally flawed. The electrosensitives were all treated the same, as if they

react in the same way to the same sources. Until it is hammered home to the

World Health Organisation and other institutions that electrosensitive sufferers

often have differing symptoms, and that those who have the same symptoms do not

react, as someone put it, like light switches or lamps, whose pain goes on and

off immediately to the on/off sources of EMFs used in the tests. Also, as others

continually point out here, the pain/agitation involved may not arise for some

time after the exposure. These people seem to treat the tests as if the on/off

exposure will initiate an easily recognizable shock of pain that will

immediately be recognizable on the turning on of the source, and will then

immediately dissipate or disappear on the turning off of the source in the test.

This is obviously nonsense; pain is not like that. It can be of different forms,

spasm like for some, sharp and intense for others. Pain itself can often be an

acute, sharp sense, or a slow, nagging sense of pain. It can depend on the

information being sent by the nervous system, and on the type of damage being

caused. For some it can be slow building and slow to dissipate, etc etc. I could

go on. then of course there is the fact that for some sufferers, pain is not the

main symptom; it can be fatigue/lethargy, or mental fuzziness, or something

else. Until this gets through to these researchers, nothing will change, and

flawed tests will continue to be carried out. We should bombard the likes of the

World Health Organization, the European Commission, relevant U.S. departments,

etc., with this message or else they will constantly put forward the likes of

Rubin to negate any causal link between electrosensitive sufferers and

Electromagetic fields.

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>

> all European Anti-Emf organizations

>

> Dear all,

>

> The 2011 International Scientific Conference on EMF and Health will take plake

on the 16th and the 17th of November 2011 at the European Parliament in

Brussels.

>

> This conference is organized under the auspices of the European Commission's

Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR).

Althus it is the most important electrosmog-conference for all 27 countries of

the European Union!

>

> As can be seen from the programme here:

> http://www.onetec.be/EMF2011/programme.html

> many speakers are invited, but most if not all of them are directly or

indirectly linked to the telecom industry.

>

> And none of the scientists of whom their research has proven that there are

harmful health effects of pulsed microwave radiation are invited to speak at the

conference! We for instance refer to the following non-invited independent

scientists and emf-specialists: L. Hardell, H. Lai, M. Kundi, F. Adlkofer, G.

Oberfeld, O. Johansson, M. Havas etc. All of them have confirmed that they have

not been invited at this conference.

>

> As we know, the exponential rise of electrosmog in the past decade in every

house, school and city has become a major threat to public health. The health of

children, millions of electrosensitives and future generations is at stake here!

The politicians and the general public need to realize that public health is the

utmost important and act accordingly.

>

> That's why during the conference we will protest at the entrance of the EU

Parliament on Wednesday the 16th of November.

>

> We demand:

>

> - much less electrosmog with a regulation that fully applies the precautionary

principle

> - recognition of electrohypersensitivity as a functional impairment (as in

Sweden)

>

> We are convinced this EU-conference is the perfect opportunity for us, for the

European Anti-Emf Organizations to cooperate and unite our protest.

>

> With this we invite you to protest together with us. Please keep us posted via

e-mail at:

> steven@...

>

> Thank you,

>

> Boone (StopUMTS.be)

> Luc Leenders (StralingsArmVlaanderen.org)

> Duchateau (StralingsArmVlaanderen.org)

> Gérald Hanotiaux (Collectif Dé-Mobilisation)

>