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Airwave

and the ethics of doubt

Andy Davidson

February 2005
Biology describes us,
physics tries to explain
The moth and a molecule of pheromone
The shark and the faint electrical impulse of
a fish
The minute currents that regenerate a
salamander limb
The timekeeping rhythms of tiny impulses in
the brain
Near DC currents that communicate subtly
around the body
The responsive body

Rhythmic sounds at biofrequencies entrain


the brain, to meditate or arouse
Full moon changes the earths Schumann
resonance; psychiatric admissions increase:
lunatics?
Flashing lights at specific frequencies cause
epilepsy
A frog's heart can be entrained with EM
pulses: turned down and off
The responsive body

Tiny pulsed EM fields trigger healing


The pineal gland produces melatonin at
night; this is suppressed by low-level EMR
The body is full of dielectric, conducting,
semiconducting and rectifying materials,
with crystals and liquid crystals.
It is bioelectromagnetic to be alive, using
highly coherent frequencies and minute
voltages.
The responsive body

And yet we are told that there is no


conceivable way the body can respond:

We dont have eyes for radiofrequency.


A dangerous rhythm

Key bioelectromagnetic frequencies lie


between 0Hz and around 300Hz
These are rhythms of waking, sleeping,
creating, breathing, heartbeat, healing
and well-being
Evolved in a silent electromagnetic
environment, except for the matched
frequencies of the earth itself, now we
are in the middle of a noisy party
An incessant noise

Lets not talk about what is a pulse and what is not.


We tap our feet to music: TETRA has music, a
rhythm and beat.
This is the music of TETRA . . .

(Click picture for mp3)

And it is 24 hours a day.


7 days a week.
365 days a year.
at home.
Are you at home with this?
"In practice, of course, you are most unlikely to
be in the beam all the time, the beam is
relatively small, you're going to be outside the
beam and it falls away rapidly, or youre going
to be further than 50m or probably you're going
to spend most of the time inside a house or
another building, and once youre inside that
building youre shielded, so most of the time its
a reasonable estimate to say that the intensity
from a base station is 10,000, 100,000 or even a
million times less than you get from a handset."
It is not true

TETRA configurations are typically two


receiving stacks and one transmitting, and
all three antennae are omnidirectional.
TETRA produces strong sidelobes, and we
have been told by BT engineers that in the
original design, deflector plates were
intended to have been fitted to reduce this.
In fact emissions are measurably strong
under a mast.
It is not true

The omnidirectional antennae mean that


radiation is 360 degrees, so there is no
narrow beam. In fact the whole point is to
equally cover in all directions.
The sound you have heard is a TETRA signal
inside my house. Power levels of combined
masts behind the house reach 6 V/m in
bedrooms. All day, all night.
The sound is produced by direct
rectification and amplification only
Why TETRA is different

Yes, TETRA shares the characteristics of


wireless technologies, and all the doubts
BUT, TETRA has a persistence
TETRA does have a biofrequency rhythm
TETRA sets up a resonance between masts
that people are sensing and suffering from
Psychosomatic Sussex?

From the night TETRA was switched on in


Worthing, people had problems
Typical symptoms of electro-sensitivity
No-one wanted to know, because we
mentioned masts
All agencies say that because NRPB quotes
AGNIR as saying it is unlikely, it is not TETRA
No-one wants to find an explanation
Worthing survey
(full report available)
We had to record what was happening
We surveyed 1,300 houses within 250m
We had 448 people respond
58.8 % recorded symptoms that in 90 % of
cases were both unusual and occurring
only since the TETRA went live
Of those affected, over 40 % had sleep
disorders, 38 % headaches, 16 % skin
problems
Not just Worthing

Littlehampton, Bognor, Felpham, Rogate


etc.
When masts are off the symptoms go
When people move away the symptoms go
People even display the symptoms when
convinced there is no TETRA
When base stations are adjusted, people
can tell the difference
Inconvenience or risk?

There can be no assurance without research


The observed phenomena are clearly nothing
to do with RF heating
The only safety guideline we have
excludes all but RF heating effects
Residential exposure is chronic; some nearest
are disabled and housebound
Sleep loss alone damages the body and
endangers health
Social responsibility

We know that low-level EMF and EMR


affect DNA, cell membranes, gland
secretions, enzymes, stress proteins,
bones, soft tissues, the skin, white blood
cells, red blood corpuscles, sleep,
cognition, and:
Social responsibility

when asked by the media are we all guinea


pigs in some global multibillion pound
commercial experiment?

Dr Michael Clark, science spokesperson,


NRPB, October 2004, says:
In a way, yes, we are.
So how sure are we about
base station safety?

EU REFLEX Report, November 2004. Showed


multiple irreparable breaks in DNA (the
classic precursor to cancer) from
electromagnetic radiation below ICNIRP:
Since all these observations were made in
in vitro studies, the results obtained neither
preclude nor confirm a health risk due to
EMF exposure, but they speak in favour of
such a possibility.
So how sure are we?

Furthermore, there exists no justification


anymore to claim that we are not aware of
any pathophysiological mechanisms which
could be the basis for the development of
functional disturbances and any kind of
chronic diseases in animal and man.
The claim, so often put out that there are
no known mechanisms by which EMR could
cause illness, is no longer tenable.
We do not know, but we see

No-one has considered the chronic


exposure to TETRA base stations
We do not even have a dosimetry, because
we do not know what to measure
Epidemiological studies are apparently
impossible, because we have created such
a blanket EMF environment
So there is blanket denial and no
investigation
Understanding understanding

We dont understand some alternative


therapies: so we call it placebo
We dont understand placebo!
We dont understand the symptoms around
masts so we call it psychosomatic
There is less evidence that it might be
psychosomatic than that it might be true
sensitivity!
Responsibility

Let it not be said that 58 % of our


respondents are suffering from
psychosomatic effects from something of
which they have only a low awareness. Nor
that the 262 people involved most certainly
have 262 separate causes for the effects on
their well-being. And let us not walk away
from them as if it doesnt matter.
A more Sudan response

Food colourant Sudan I was found in


prepared foods made with Worcester
sauce, 17 February 2005
350 food lines were removed from
supermarket shelves, 18 February
What does Dr Jon Bell, Chief Executive
of the FSA say?
A more Sudan response

Sudan I could contribute to an increased risk of


cancer. However, at the levels present the risk is
likely to be very small but it is sensible to avoid
eating any more. There is no risk of immediate ill
health. The agency is working with the industry to
ensure that any remaining affected products are
speedily removed. Because of the widespread use
of this Worcester sauce to flavour other foods, we
may find further affected products. We will
continue to take action to remove these and
minimise the risk to consumers.
thank you

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