In response to Lloyd Kinder's query about the human health effects of
microwave radiation, I offer some on-line resources on that topic:
Called "the most authoritative journal on ELF and health" by those
wild-eyed radicals at /Fortune/ magazine, /Microwave News/ has a Web
site at:
http://www.microwavenews.com/news.html
This site offers many links on the topic of EMR:
http://www2.cruzio.com/~rbedard/emflinks.html
EMR research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is summarized
at:
Click on the project button on the left side of your screen.
Here's a big biblio of articles on microwave effects on the human
head (cut and pasted below):
http://www.niwl.se/WAIS/30010/30010114.htm
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SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR) IN MODELS OF THE HUMAN HEAD EXPOSED
TO HAND-HELD UHF PORTABLE RADIOS. Eng. Cleveland, R. F., Jr.; Athey,
T. W. Office of Engineering and Technology, Room 7130, Federal
Communications Commission, Washington, DC 20554 (RR/R.F.C.);
Electrophysics Branch, Center for Devices and Radiological Health,
U.S. FDA, Rockville, MD (T.W.A.) Bioelectromagnetics 10(2):173-186,
1989 BENER number: 5296
800 MHZ - 2 GHZ SAR COMPUTATION OF RADIATING LINEAR DIPOLE-ANTENNAS
NEAR A HEAD MODEL (MEETING ABSTRACT). Eng. Chuang, H. R. Dept. of
Electrical Engineering, Natl. Cheng-Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan First
World Congress for Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and
Medicine, 14-19 June, Lake Buena Vista, FL, p. 150, 1992 BENER
number: 7349
SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE IN A SITTING RHESUS MODEL AT 225, 1290, AND
5950-MHZ FOR E, H, AND K POLARIZATIONS (MEETING ABSTRACT). Eng.
Griner, T. A.; Olsen, R. G. Bioenvironmental Sciences Dept., Naval
Aerospace Medical Res. Lab., Pensacola, FL 32508 Bioelectromagnetics
Society, 5th Annual Meeting, 12-17 June, Boulder, CO, p. 93 1983
BENER number: 1120
COMPARISON OF FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SAR CALCULATIONS WITH
MEASUREMENTS IN A HETEROGENEOUS MODEL OF MAN. Eng. Spiegel, R. J.;
Fatmi, M. B. A.; Stuchly, S. S.; Stuchly, M. A. US EPA, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27711 (R.J.S.); Northrop Services, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27709 (M.B.A.F.); Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada (S.S.S.); Bureau of
Radiation and Medical Devices, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario K1A 0L2 (M.A.S.) IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 36(8):849-855, 1989
BENER number: 6381
A COMPARISON OF THE SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE IN A HOMOGENEOUS MAN
MODEL AND A MAN MODEL CONTAINING REALISTIC MODEL BONES (MEETING
ABSTRACT). Eng. Griner, T. A.; Olsen, R. G. Bioenvironmental
Sciences Dept., Naval Aerospace Medical Research Lab., Pensacola, FL
43508 Bioelectromagnetics Society, 6th Annual Meeting, 15-19 July,
Atlanta, GA, p. 24, 1984 BENER number: 1716
PARTIAL-BODY DOSIMETRIC ANALYSIS USING FULL-SIZE MODELS OF MAN AND
RHESUS MONKEYS (MEETING ABSTRACT). Eng. Olsen, R. G.; Griner, T. A.
Bioenvironmental Sciences Dept., Naval Aerospace Medical Res. Lab.,
Pensacola, FL 32508 Bioelectromagnetics Society, 4th Annual Meeting,
June 28 - July 2, 1982, Los Angeles, CA, p. 27, 1982 BENER number:
0160
Much of the more recent work has been done by Om Ghandhi and
coworkers:
ELECTRIC FIELD AND CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS INDUCED IN A
MILLIMETER- RESOLUTION HUMAN MODEL FOR EMFS OF POWER LINES (MEETING
ABSTRACT). Eng. Chen, J-Y.; Gandhi, O. P.; Wu, D.; Sarvepalli, V. Dept.
of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Bioelectromagnetics Society, 16th Annual Meeting, 12-17 June,
Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 28, 1994 BENER number: 10212
MILLIMETER-RESOLUTION DOSIMETRY FOR EM FIELDS FROM CELLULAR PHONES
AND POWER LINES (MEETING ABSTRACT). Eng. Gandhi, O. P. Dept. of
Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
International Symposium on Biological Effects of Magnetic and
Electromagnetic Fields, 3-4 September, Fukuoka, Japan, p. 16-18, 1993
BENER number: 9259
MILLIMETER-RESOLUTION DOSIMETRY FOR EM FIELDS: CELLULAR PHONES, POWER
LINES, AND MRI (MEETING ABSTRACT). Eng. Gandhi, O. P. Dept. of
Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
European Bioelectromagnetics Assoc. (EBEA), 2nd Congress, 9-11
December, Bled, Slovenia, p. 135, 1993 BENER number: 9833
ELECTROMAGNETIC ABSORPTION IN THE HUMAN HEAD FOR CELLULAR TELEPHONES
(MEETING ABSTRACT). Eng. Gandhi, O. P.; Chen, J-Y.; Wu, D. Dept. of
Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Bioelectromagnetics Society, 16th Annual Meeting, 12-17 June,
Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 64-65, 1994 BENER number: 10292
ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY DEPOSITION IN AN INHOMOGENEOUS BLOCK MODEL OF
MAN FOR NEAR-FIELD IRRADIATION CONDITIONS. Eng. Chatterjee, I.;
Hagmann, M. J.; Gandhi, O. P. Dept. Electrical Engineering, Univ.
Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 IEEE Trans Microw Theory Tech
28(12):1452-1459, 1980 BENER number: B-6972
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Click the "similar documents" link at the bottom of the above URL
for an even lengthier bibliography on other related issues (many in
Swedish).
I'm cc'ing this to a non-retired communications systems engineer of
my acquaintance at Pacific Bell; if he has anything to add by way of
sites or evaluations or anything, I'll pass it along.
My own hunch about EMR is the same as about pesticides: their
interactive effects at low "doses" are something that science is just
beginning to develop the methodologies to assess. I wouldn't jump to
any human health conclusions based on 60s and 70s engineering
principles or beliefs, or the wishful thinking of 80s Mark
Fowler/Darth-Vader-of-Bandwidth types. Some things are very easy to
dismiss, particularly when they're very difficult to think about or
research.
peace
misha
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