EMF Research: Examples of Complicating Factors

EMF: Overview of Biological Effects>

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"As with most environmental concerns, the EMF debate is basically a moral one, and as long as there's legitimate scientific debate about safety issues, the morality of profiting on dubiously safe technology will be debated as well. There seems to be no possible resolution of that debate short of a lot more funding for truly independent scientific analysis. This has to include epidemiology as well as other research, because I think we're much more likely to discover what's going on by carefully examining what follows what we're doing than by simply trying to pinpoint the cause of those phenomena, which may not happen for a long time, as with tobacco - though we shouldn't stop trying.
 
Take the problem of measuring exposure, for instance. Any piece of measuring gear you use has severe limitations when you're trying to realistically estimate the exposure to a human being. Even if you had a spectrum analyzer with a bandwidth from DC to 300 GHz, there's no way one person (in the field, for instance) could measure the whole spectrum at once. But realistic exposure IS the whole spectrum at once. And what do you use for an input? Even the best probe has severe limitations as well. The only truly realistic probe would be something that reproduces all the complex conductors, coils, and connections in the human brain and nervous system - if you could legitimately limit it to the nervous system. But even then such a receiver would not be alive. And even if you could pull off all that, you'd still have to take into account non-structural differences, and individual variations in age, state of health, diet, etc. If you're measuring microwaves in the field, you need to include temperature, humidity, electromagnetic and other influences in the surroundings, and so forth. Even a person's mood can drastically affect the capabilities of their immune system. As Harold Saxton Burr said decades ago in his book The Fields of Life, 'beliefs can have as drastic an effect on the body as a kick in the teeth.'"
Stan Hartman, Boulder, Colorado