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Does the Federal Government Really Believe There Are No Dangerous Bioeffects From EMF Exposure?


"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and error."

- Thomas Jefferson
All along, Industry and the Federal Government have insisted that either:
  1. not enough research has been done on EMF Bioeffects to determine the potential risk, or
  2. plenty of research has been done to determine that there is no risk.
That these two positions seem to be mutually exclusive appears to have eluded those in charge of public relations ... what is the source of this ambiguity? Is it accidental? Is it intentional, and if so, why?


The Ambiguity

The terms risk and safe, which are essential to a meaningful dialog on this issue, have in this context, undiscussed controversial definitions, that is, they have been craftily re-defined to mean something other than their intended, (dictionay) definition. Safe and risk, as defined in the dictionary, are absolutes. You are either safe, or you are not safe. You are either at risk, or you are not at risk.

A good example of disagreement is the NCRP pre-release leak of "recommendations." This is a group of people working on THE SAME REPORT, who completely disagreed on what the conclusions should be. Imagine people in different agencies with mutually-exclusive interests, or people in Industry, with jobs, and the future of whole technologies at stake? (Here I am assuming the leak originated with someone inside who thought the final recommendations would not be consistant with the data.)

The people who make up the Federal Government do not agree on EMR Bioeffects, so how can the Federal Government appear to be consistent? Here are some contradictory positions taken by various US Government agencies, or agents.


Weapons Research

Some of the most incriminating information about what the Federal Government might actually know about EMF Bioeffects, comes from Weapons Research.

For decades, the Federal Government has funded research into various uses of EMF energy in anti-personnel applications; both for time of war, and time of peace. Probably the most famous is the CIA's MKULTRA project, which sought to establish various methodologies for mind-control applications, using everything from "brainwashing" to "microwaves." Unfortunately, much of the documentation from MKULTRA was destroyed; allegedly because the CIA was concerned about the public perception of their research goals, and to maintain proprietary control of all potentially valuable results.

Is it possible that the Federal Government now has precisely the same concern? That if the real body of evidence was revealed, the nature of the original research -- morally and ethically degenerate goals -- would be brought to light? This is a disgusting thought, but not without historical precedent.

For some interesting reading on this subject, check out:


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Last updated 2-12-97