Do the research
Unfortunately, it is hard or impossible to prove a negative, and for every theory out
there, whether crackpot or legitimate, there seems to be some "research" that
proves the theory true. If I believed all the research out there, I would drive myself
crazy trying to avoid all the dangerous things in this world. Or I would live a short
miserable life and die early of hunger, thirst and utter boredom.
My parents went for years drinking decaf coffee because caffeine was bad for you, then they found out decaf
was worse. They went for years avoiding eggs because they were bad for you, now eggs aren't bad any more.
After seeing so many bad things become ok years later, and so many government-sanctioned "good"
things be found to be bad, I'm not prepared to take anything at face value, especially if it comes from
government, and second if it comes from "research studies", which can be twisted, bent, or just
plain broken, by anybody with the money to commission them and a preconceived idea of what the
"studies" will prove.
Even the most "obvious" facts of modern life, accepted almost universally by
everyone without question, can be based on blatantly bad science or statistics. Take for
example the claim that smoking kills 500,000 people a year because it causes heart
disease, which is the nation's biggest killer. Is that true? I have no doubt that
smoking is bad for people, but ... is it That bad?
To answer that question I looked in some of those Information Please almanac
books that give tons of statistics, including causes of death in the US by
category: heart disease, cancer, accidents, etc. -- 50 some categories, and
sure enough, cardio-vascular disease was right up there at the top of the list
by a mile. But ... something is missing from all those lists. Look long
enough and you might see it too, but it is easy to miss, because it IS NOT
THERE: According to our illustrious government, nobody dies of old age! What
a miracle that is! The government has cured OLD AGE! Must be, since they
claim that nobody dies from it.
My guess is simply that "old age" is not something doctors are allowed to enter on a death certificate as a cause of death, so they have to write something else, and when in doubt, they put down "heart stopped' or some such thing. But does that make for another death from heart disease? obviously not.
So how many of those are there?
To answer that question i sent for a publication by the National Safety
Council, which resides in Chicago, and which is the source, along with National
Department of Health and Human Services (a few years ago) of almost all the
information in the statistical almanac books. NSC sent me a little booklet
that contained, among many other things, a graph of cardio-vascular death rates
vs age. Sure enough, the numbers were very low right up to the late 60s or
early 70s, when they started to ramp up, reaching a sharp peak around 80, then
dropping down again.
Where are all the "heart disease" deaths at other stages of life? Not to be
found in that graph, that's for sure. But then again, the only way to find that tidbit
of information was to buy a little pamphlet for $25 (in 1990), from the National Safety
Council, which by the way is an independent corporation in Chicago, chartered by and
overseen by -- US Congress. Ok, so now we know where the numbers, and the lies, are
coming from for this issue.
Don't even get me started on drinking and driving....
Dick
----- Original Message ----
From: Del <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, April 20, 2010 2:41:00 PM
Subject: Re: CS>More on Cell-Phone and Cell-Tower radiation
If you sit next to a Wi-Fi base unit, you are absorbing more radiation than my
electrosmog detector could measure (pegged it at max).
Likewise if you sit in front of a cordless phone base unit.
Likewise if you stay in the same room with an operating microwave oven.
Likewise when you key your cell phone or cordless laptop (some are worse than
others, iphone probably worst of all).
If you are within 900 feet or so of an operating tower, you burn slowly rather
than quickly.
Over many years the damage mounts up, because the radiation is unrelenting,
24/7, and the damage is cumulative.
There are many reports of various illnesses (mostly cancer) in the vicinity of
these towers after years of exposure.
There are also plenty of in vitro studies that have demonstrated cellular
damage from tower exposure.
Do the research. You might reevaluate.
Del
