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Understanding pressures on science : research
- Wolves of Water. Dr Chris Busby. This is a book about corporate responsibility as it is applied to national governments. ... Most of all it is a message to the planet and its inhabitants to take control of the policy/science interface before the products of science and scientific ways of thinking destroy us all.
- Secret Ties to Industry and Conflicting Interests in Cancer Research, Hardell L, Walker M, Walhjalt B, Friedman L, Richter E, American Journal of Industrial Medicine (2006)
- Late Lessons from Early Warnings: the precautionary principle 1896 – 2000 from the European Environment Agency.
- The Precautionary Principle in Action: a Handbook, Written for the Science and Environmental Health Network.
- Source of Funding and Results of Studies of Health Effects of Mobile Phone Use: Systematic Review of Experimental Studies, Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 115, no. 1, January 2007
- Researchers see bias in private-funded studies (9/1/2007). Not just pharmaceutical, chemicals and radiation, but nutrition ...
- Doubt is their Product, David Michaels, epidemiologist, writing in Scientific American, 2005
- Radiation Research and The Cult of Negative Results: a respected journal, the true meaning of peer review, and a revelation about the influence of funding on results.
- Uncomfortable connections in WHO. The story or saga of Michael Repacholi has echoed amongst EM field researchers. Former head of the World Health Organisation EMF Project, Repacholi went from researcher with positive effects of EMF damage, to head of the EMF project at WHO, a position subsidised, it appears, by the industry sector itself. Known also for denying that Chernobyl had any serious radiation outcomes (indeed that a little radiation is good for you), Repacholi is now working with the industry that requires rather less precaution in order to thrive. Trace the story yourself, and judge whether the connections are healthy for science.
- Guardian Special report: The business of research. Firms ‘push scientists to tailor research results’
- Brave New World of Zero Risk: Covert Strategy in British Science Policy, Martin J Walker. This book (350pp) is on free download. The messages is an important one.
- World Health Organisation knows how many people report symptoms of electromagnetic radiation sickness. But they publicly deny its existence. It’s a political issue
- Andrew Marino PhD JD, is eminent in this field, and criticises WHO and Mike Repacholi (ex-head of the WHO EMF project)
- The Lancet: WHO Ignored Evidence in Guidelines: ‘This is a pretty seismic event,’ Lancet editor Dr Richard Horton, who was not involved in the research for the article. ‘It undermines the very purpose of WHO.’
- HPA-RPD (ex-NRPB) misusing science? An example.
- Pressure to soften controversial findings on mobile phones. (Canada)
- The ways the HPA-RPD (ex-NRPB) has suppressed scientific knowledge, against the public interest
- Can there be independent research? IARC is an arm of WHO, but is it:
- distant from the industry that sponsors the research into mobile phones and cancer? Or is
- IARC tainted?
- The politics of recognition of the problem
- Reuters, AAP and media reporting on scientific research into cellphones and health
- Institute of Science in Society calls on European Commission to ‘Support Independent Science’: health before wealth.
- Which Science or Scientists Can You Trust? Michael Meacher MP
- Conflict of interest in funding the Interphone Studies. For all the reassurances of ‘firewalls’ between funders and research outcomes, it is hard to deny that an influence remains.
- Science under siege
- Example: how Gerard Hyland paid the price for blowing the whistle on mobile phone safety
- Experts investigating biological effects of cell phone radiation asked to shut up or quit jobs
- Cell phone convenience or 21st Century Plague? on RF Safe website, and why some scientists lost funding.
- The use of pulsed radiation in warfare because of known effects. This extract is from a very important chapter in The Body Electric by Dr Robert Becker (1985!), and it deserves patient reading: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.
- A Corporate Risk Assessment of RF Bioeffects Studies Relevant to the Use of Mobile Phones by Children: Is it really science?, Don Maisch.
- A recent parallel: BSE has an alternative and robust explanation. Nobody has told you this.
- Science on mobile phones is deliberately distorted to show no risk, Toronto
