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eBay to OFCOM : you will oBey!

The Times newspaper this week claimed that eBay is to put pressure on Ofcom to improve the quality of mobile phone networks across the UK. You have to love their timing. With the health risks of telecommunication technology all over the media (most of it horribly misleading, biased and outright false), and phone masts going [ READ MORE ]

Why we should all be interested in Cancer Research UK’s conflict of interest

Amid all the media kerfuffle surrounding the WHO/IARC announcements on the amended carcinogenic status of mobile phones, with frontpage headlines full of misdirection and agenda-setting, it is interesting to note the reaction to this news from the Cancer Research UK’s spokesperson, a Mr Ed Yong. “The vast majority of existing studies have not found a [ READ MORE ]

We’re not being harmed….we’re just having too much fun!

Fear not the damage from this onslaught of EMR. Our loss of memory and concentration is caused by “having fun”. The Daily Mail strikes again. This, from their “Good Health” section earlier in the week: “Ditch It: Worrying about your memory. A failure to remember facts could simply be a sign you are having fun. According [ READ MORE ]

Jobs: not worth doing

  • May 9th, 2011
  • Posted in Health

Users of Apple iPhones might be interested to know how much radiation their “phone mast in a pocket” gadgets are pulsing out at any given time. Well, thanks to head honcho Steve Jobs (a man ravaged by cancer), you won’t get that information from Apple. An app for this particular function was comissioned in 2010, but – [ READ MORE ]

Your cut-out-and-keep template for newspaper articles on Wi-Fi

HEADLINE: Is there a problem? FIRST PARAGRAPH: Reports and studies suggest there is a problem. SECOND PARAGRAPH: Some experts express concern that there is a problem. THIRD PARAGRAPH: Contradict these views with those of other experts, but give no conclusive reasons or evidence why. Just their opinion that they don’t believe there is a problem. FOURTH PARAGRAPH: [ READ MORE ]

The Daily Mail and a silencing of ES sufferers

  • December 7th, 2010
  • Posted in Health

They are at it again. Last week, The Daily Mail newspaper published an article by Powerwatch’s Alasdair Philips. One of his periodical pieces on the dangers of mobile technology, “Is Wi-Fi Frying Our Brains?” attempted – with mixed results – to get the message across to the public in an easily-understandable way, by using examples that [ READ MORE ]

The Obsession With Alzheimer’s : A Cover Up?

  • September 17th, 2010
  • Posted in Health

They will let women die of breast cancer, but they will pull out all the stops to prevent the growing problem of "Alzheimer's". Why[ READ MORE ]

Recycled Rubbish

  • September 10th, 2010
  • Posted in Health

A choice piece of unsubstantiated, one-sided, poorly written nonsense on the Daily Mail website this week. Everyone involved in this so-called Commision For Rural Communites, and the hack who wrote such drivel, should be ashamed of themselves. [ READ MORE ]

A Sporting Chance? (Part 2.5)

How long it takes anyone (other than myself) to realise what's happening, I have no idea. For now, a wonderful sport is being reduced to a farce, where the ability of players is being rendered virtually obsolete as the artificially-altered atmosphere continues to make a mockery of the scoreboard and distort the pattern of play[ READ MORE ]

A Sporting Chance? (Part 2)

  • August 20th, 2010
  • Posted in Health

Test matches should ebb and flow. Not fluctuate wildly between dominance with the bat and then the ball. Why do we keep seeing these dramatic batting collapses, alternating with huge partnerships, and so many low-scoring Test matches this summer? When both teams appear to be affected, there has to be a reason beyond technical competence[ READ MORE ]

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