‘Voodoo science’ will not solve the causality-problem of EHS

‘Voodoo science’ will not solve the causality-problem of EHS

August 7, 2013 in -Mailing List, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity by EMFacts

Recommended reading on the controversy over EHS testing is the excellent commentary by Dariusz Leszczynski.

Don

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From the blog “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” by Dariusz Leszczynski:

Excerpt:

HELSINKI, Finland, August 6, 2013 — Technological development of wireless communication has brought an unprecedented increase in human, animal and plant exposure to microwave radiation.

Currently available biomedical research indicates that even at the low levels permitted by the safety standards, radiation exposures induce acute biological effects. The possible impact of the chronic exposures is not known beyond, at the most, the first 10-15 years. We do not have the faintest idea what will happen when exposures will last for a lifetime.

This lack of biomedical knowledge about the possible impact of the exposures on health of people and on the well being of animals and plants is in striking contrast with the technological progress.

Because of their usefulness and because of their profitability, wireless technologies are very rapidly expanding and exposures are reach more and more remote Earth locations. In a short time, there will be no place on Earth to “hide” from the omnipresent microwave exposures.

There is a group of people who call themselves electro-sensitive (ES) or electro-hyper-sensitive (EHS). They claim to get a variety of largely unspecific symptoms in response to exposures to man-made electromagnetic fields, emitted by the wireless communication devices. ES, or EHS, are mostly self-diagnosed by the patients, because they are not recognized as a medical illness. Physicians do not have diagnostic tools to detect or evaluate severity of ES/EHS.

Organizations that are responsible for defining what is and what is not an illness and responsible for setting safe exposure limits for electromagnetic radiation, the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES), all are of the opinion that the symptoms experienced by ES/EHS self-diagnosed persons are not caused by exposures to man-made electromagnetic radiation.

The WHO, ICNIRP and ICES have no sufficient scientific evidence that would support their claim of the lack of causality between the exposures to electromagnetic radiation and the symptoms experienced by ES/EHS persons.

SNIP

Read the full article here

http://www.emfacts.com/2013/08/voodoo-science-will-not-solve-the-causality-problem-of-ehs/