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Fighting back: eminent researchers unite as institutes avoid answering important questions

Fighting back: eminent researchers unite as institutes avoid answering important questions

By John Weigel

World renown researchers into the toxic effects of microwave

technology - from cell phones to wi-fi and digital television - are

fighting back against what appears to be a concerted effort to

simultaneously close their research facilities across Europe

The pattern of shutting down experiments began earlier this year as

three noted researchers, Drs. Olle Johansson, of the Karolinska

Institute, Stockholm; Dimitris Panagopoulos, of Athens University; and

Annie Sasco, Bordeaux; had their positions threatened and their

research premises requisitioned for other purposes, effectively

silencing them.

The total value of the cell phone / microwave-based industry is an estimated $153 billion and involves the economic might of leading technology firms such as Motorola, Intel, AT&T, Apple, Nokia and Ericsson. Many of the firms hold close ties to the world’s military establishment.

Motorola developed and tested the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (Tetra)

signal used by police and emergency services which uses a pulsed

frequency matches the electromagnetic frequency of the human brain.

Intel created the WiMAX signal which has been purchased by Sprint, The

United States third largest telecommunications company.

Both signals were developed in Ireland where the government has a

policy to invite overseas companies to test their technologies in a

live environment. There is no provision for studying the health

effects of the tests. Last week, Eamon Ryan, Minister for

Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, announced the roll-out

of digital television.

The silencing of scientists for political and economic reasons began

to form a pattern when a large number of scientists died prematurely

or under unusual circumstances The much-documented pattern included

the death of British UN weapons expert David Kelly in 2003. As

questions about his death persisted, this year the Attorney General

for England and Wales, Dominic Grieve, indicated that he remained

"concerned" about the case and interested in exploring how to take the

matter forward. The pattern of requisitioning offices and labs appears

to be drawn from human resources techniques where institutions can

exercise their right to manage their own space.

Prof. Johansson was told his lab was required to house ferrets while

Dr. Panagopoulos’s office was reduced to a three by five foot room

the size of a cupboard and Dr. Sasco has remained silent to date on

the reasons for losing her post in France. A fourth scientist who

claims harassment, Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy of the Imperial College,

London, has retired.

The timing of the actions against the scientists appears to be silent

testimony of a move against them and comes after they participated via

a teleconference call to the Canadian House of Commons Standing

Committee on Health (HESA) to hear from witnesses on the dangers of

wireless technology in Ottawa last April.

The significance of closing down scientific research is to limit

growing public concern over safety issues relating to the mushrooming

use of information-carrying microwave technology. Ordinary users

appreciate the heat-generating properties of microwaves in their

kitchens and feel safe because microwave ovens have sealed protective

doors. Information-carrying microwaves, because they are broadcast

into the environment offer no such protection and are attributed to

lower property values, various diseases, infertility and death.

With Panagopoulos, Sasco and Goldsworthy either accepting

administrative decisions, remaining silent or slipping into

retirement, Johansson has become the focus of the current conflict

between industry and academia, lifting the bar to the issue of

interference with academic freedom of enquiry. Just what is expected

of an academic, Johansson is kindly in manner, hard-headed and used to

controversy. In the 1970s his research led to higher standards for

computer VDUs when his research revealed a threat to pregnant women

using computer monitors and their unborn babies.

The current controversy began less than a year ago following a public

meeting in Ireland where Johansson revealed DNA and cell changes to

skin after only a half-hour’s exposure to microwaves and infertility

in the fifth generation of mice following exposure. The meeting was

held in Leixlip, home to Intel’s European headquarters. Within months,

Johansson was informed by Prof. Staffan Cullheim, Chair of the Dept.

of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute that his offices and lab

were required for storing ferrets - an animal related to skunks and

polecats.

The Karolinska Institute is home to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or

Medicine selected by the Nobel Assembly of 50 faculty members.

When Johansson refused to vacate his premises discussions were

abandoned until last May when Cullheim informed Johansson that his

premises were again to be requisitioned, this time for an imaging

facility. In addition to noting that Johansson’s premises were too

large for his requirements, Cullheim noted that there had been staff

rumblings that Johansson had received preferential treatment.

Johansson’s work is independently funded.

Cullheim gave Johansson a deadline of July 31 to vacate his premises,

immediately before he was to begin replication studies, an integral

part of the scientific process, of work done by Dr. Magda Havas, of

Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. It was on the strength of

Havas’ work that the City of San Francisco abandoned the Google /

Earthlink contract for wi-fi in favour of fibre-optic cabling and

this year required the labeling of cell phones for health purposes.

A similar situation arose for Dr. Dimitris Panagopoulos, a

biophysicist with the University of Athens and lead author of “Cell

death induced by GSM 900-MHz and DCS 1800-MHz mobile telephony

radiation” published in 2006. His group’s research outlines DNA

fragmentation and cell death following exposure to microwaves. On May

6 construction work began in space adjoining his office following

notice a week earlier that he was to

leave. Panagopoulos says he was “out because he did not follow ...

instructions” to not participate in the Canadian conference. “I spoke

as an individual reporting the results of my published works”, he

says.

Anticipating difficulty, Panagopoulos removed his equipment and found

that the lock on his office had been changed. Although he has asked

for an explanation from the President of the Biology School, as of

last week he had no response and works from a windowless cupboard.

Speaking on behalf of Prof. Johansson, Panagopoulos said, “As a

biophysicist myself specialized in the Biological Effects of

Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiations, I am very familiar with the

pioneer works of Dr. Johansson in this field. In fact a lot of people

within the international scientific community and me personally, know

his work and consider him as one of the leading international experts

in this field. Moreover, Dr. Johansson is one of the most active

scientists involved to the moral aspect of this scientific field which

is directly related to human health and the protection of our natural

environment.

“The world needs scientists like Dr. Johansson not only for his

groundbreaking research on the effects of man-made electromagnetic

fields/radiations on human health (cancer induction,

electrohypersensitivity etc.) but also for his courage to fearlessly

speak the scientific truth, a matter of vital importance for the

public health and the moral values which are in great danger in our

modern society.”

Panagopoulos is not alone in his concerns. He has been joined in a

chorus of support from around the world - from New Zealand, to

California, to Virginia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Irish

supporters of Prof. Joansson have lobbied the Nobel Assembly, warning

“If you fail to assist Prof. Johansson, which member of the Nobel

Assembly will be the next victim of this process?” and have referred

the issue to Amnesty International in London which is investigating

the circumstances.

“Imagine a world,” said Panagopoulos, “where pollution of all kinds

is destroying our planet and spreads terrible diseases, where some

people get huge amounts of money out of this destruction and no one

dares to speak the scientific truth. This would be the living Hell.”

In defense of Paganopoulos, Daryl Vernon who writes a blog for the

Green Party in Toronto asked the Greek ambassador to enquire into

Panagopoulos’ circumstances. “Will you express the great dismay felt

here, and the desire to avoid further internationally embarrassing

repercussion? Will you intervene to restore our confidence that an

institution such as the University of Athens not be a venue where

inappropriate influences on academic independence are had, but rather

continue to provide scholarship of world importance,” she said.

Writing to Prof. Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, President of the

Karolinska Institute, biophysics writer Blake Levitt observed, “Over

the years, I have followed Dr. Johansson's important professional

contribution to what must be the most contentious area of science &

public health policy today -- that of the health and environmental

effects of non-ionizing radiation.

This is a critically important

subject with over 4 billion cell phone users now and all of the

wireless infrastructure needed to make those technologies function.

The human race has never been exposed to this form of radiation

before, with its odd signaling characteristics, at such intensities,

and with long, chronic exposures. We are in the throes of a massive

global experiment with no end in sight, and little cautionary

intelligence being brought to bear.”

Agreeing with Levitt is Dr. Martin Blank, Associate Professor of

Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University, College of

Physicians and Surgeons and past president of the Bioelectromagnetics

Society. “I urge you to reevaluate your decision, and change the

current plans to enable Dr. Johansson's vital research program to

continue,” he said.

Neither Wallberg-Henriksson, Cullheim nor Dr. Bernd Huber, chairman

of the League of European Research Universities have responded to

requests for comment.

Cautioning Profs. Wallberg-Henriksson and Cullheim of the possible

consequences of appearing to suppress critical scientific research by

Prof. Johansson, Dr. M.W. Brown-Beasley of Boston, a Harvard academic

and research alumnus, formerly having been of service to Merck and Co.

(pharmaceuticals), (Royal Dutch) Philips Medical Systems (medical

devices), and Lotus Development Corp., wrote, “It would be unfortunate

- indeed a tragedy -- for you to proceed on a course leading to your

personal failure, leaving behind a legacy of embarrassment and shame

not only for yourselves but staining the integrity and reputation of

the institute as well.”

-end-

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Regards,

Sharon Noble"

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