Discover Magazine (December 1989)
“Watch this,” says John Filipowski as he moves through the darkness toward the 345-kilovolt power line near his farmhouse 60 miles north of New York City.
Filipowski is carrying two four-foot-long fluorescent light tubes. As he nears the power lines, the tubes begin to glow, absorbing electrical energy through the air from the electromagnetic field given off by the power line. The closer he gets the brighter the tubes glow. By the time Filipowski stands directly under the line the, the tubes are giving off so much light he could read a newspaper in the ink black pasture. “You can see what the power line is doing to the electrons in the tubes,” he says, “What do you suppose it’s doing to the electrons in my body?”
Science Magazine (September 1990)
Researchers at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richlan, Washington, have come close to showing a direct EMF-cancer link in rats. They have found EMF’s suppress levels of the hormone melatonin; something that other researchers have shown makes female rats more susceptible to chemically induced breast tumors.
Time Magazine (June 27, 1994)
“A Survey of nearly140, 000 death certificates in 24 states found that women who are regularly exposed to electric or magnetic fields on the job have a higher incidence of breast cancer.
Atlanta Journal/Constitution
Magnetic field exposure linked to brain cancer (Late 90’s)
Raleigh, NC—Electric utility workers with high exposure to magnetic fields were more than twice as likely to develop brain cancer as those with lower exposure, researchers said. The risk of leukemia among electricians more than doubled with long-term exposure to magnetic fields on the job, said researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
London (Reuters) (Late 90’s)
British physicists said they may have found out how electromagnetic fields generated by power lines, and even small electrical appliances, can cause cancer.
Cell Phones/Cancer Connection
(The Australian Newspaper April 29, 1997)
The study looked at 200 mice half exposed and half not, to digital phone radiation. The work was conducted at the Royal Adelaide Hospital by Dr, Michael Repacholi, Professor Tony Dasten, Dr. Alan Harris and Statistician Val Gebski, and it revealed a highly-significant doubling of cancer rates in the exposed group. |