-Caveat Lector-
1-26-1999, Andrew wrote:
>
> sorry but I beg to differ with your criticism of this article
> on the early Russian and German Studies.
> A very recent study was prepared in Switzerland in the late 90's
> by a modern Scientific Institute with EXACTLY SIMILAR CONCLUSIONS.
> However, An International Electronic Household Appliance Authority
> along with the heresay of a lackey crackpot professor from Zurich
> closed the lab down before they could publish and go on TV.
> The scientist involved tested on himself .... and now has no career.
> Corroboration of the study was verified by an Independent Scientist.
> <snip>
BK> Yes, there is definitely more to this story,
as Andrew indicates, judging from the following
report, which ends on a positive note:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998
Subject: [CTRL] Microwaved food, no good?
From Trufax.org (Leading Edge International)
Court Removes Gag Order
from Swiss Scientist
on Microwaved Food
Hans Hertel is the first scientist to conceive of and carry out a
quality study on the effects of microwaved nutrients on the blood
and physiology of human beings. This small but well-controlled
study pointed the firm finger at a degenerative force of microwave
ovens and the food produced in them. The conclusion was clear:
microwave cooking changed the nutrients so that changes took place
in the participants' blood; these were not healthy changes but
were changes that could cause deterioration in the human systems.
Working with Bernard H. Blanc of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology and the University Institute for Biochemistry, Hertel
not only conceived of the study and carried it out, he was one of
eight participants. In 1991 Hans Ulrich Hertel and a Lausanne
University professor published a research paper indicating that
food cooked in microwave ovens could pose a greater risk to health
than food cooked by conventional means.
Significant changes were discovered in the blood of the volunteers
who consumed foods cooked in the microwave oven. These changes
included a decrease in all haemoglobin values and cholesterol
values, especially the HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad
cholesterol) values and ratio. Lymphocytes (white blood cells)
showed a more distinct short-term decrease following the intake of
microwaved food than after the intake of all the other variants.
Each of these indicators point in a direction away from robust
health and toward degeneration. Additionally, there was a highly
significant association between the amount of microwave energy in
the test foods and the luminous power of luminescent bacteria
exposed to serum from test persons who ate that food. This led
Hertel to the conclusion that such technically derived energies
may, indeed, be passed along to man inductively via consumption of
microwaved food.
An article appeared in issue number 19 of the Journal Franz Weber
in which it was stated that the consumption of food cooked in
microwave ovens had cancer- type effects on the blood. The article
was followed by the research paper itself.
On 7 August 1992 the Swiss Association of Manufacturers and
Suppliers of Household Appliances brought an action against the
applicant in the Canton of Berne Commercial Court. It produced
an expert report by a professor at Z�rich Federal Institute of
Technology from which it appeared that the applicant's research
was worthless and his findings untenable.
As soon as Hertel and Blanc announced their results, the hammer of
authority slammed down on them. A powerful trade organisation, the
Swiss Association of Dealers for Electroapparatuses for Households
and Industry, known simply as FEA, struck swiftly. They forced the
President of the Court of Seftigen, Kanton Bern, to issue a 'gag
order' against Hertel and Blanc. The attack was so ferocious that
Blanc quickly recanted his support-but it was too late. He had
already put into writing his views on the validity of the studies
where he concurred with the opinion that microwaved food caused
the blood abnormalities. Hertel stood his ground, and today is
steadfastly demanding his rights to a trial. Preliminary hearings
on the matter have been appealed to higher courts, and it's quite
obvious the powers that be do not want a 'show trial' to erupt on
this issue.
In March 1993, the court handed down this decision based upon
the complaint of the FEA: "Consideration. 1. Request from the
plaintiff (FEA) to prohibit the defendant (Dr Ing. Hans Hertel)
from declaring that food prepared in the microwave oven shall be
dangerous to health and lead to changes in the blood of consumers,
giving reference to pathologic troubles as also indicative for
the beginning of a cancerous process. The defendant shall be
prohibited from repeating such a statement in publications
and in public talks by punishment laid down in the law.
However, in 1998 that decision was reversed. In a judgment
delivered at Strasbourg on 25 August 1998 in the case of Hertel v.
Switzerland, the European Court of Human Rights held that there
had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision.
Under Article 50 of the Convention, the Court awarded the
applicant a specified sum for legal costs and expenses.
The European Court of Human Rights decided that the "gag order"
issued by the Swiss courts against the Bernese scientist
prohibiting him from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous
to health was contrary to the right to freedom of expression.
In addition, Switzerland was sentenced to pay compensation of
F-40,000. This decision is to put an end to judicial censorship
of persons drawing attention to the health hazards of certain
products.
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