Friday, 30 April 1999 Washington, DC
1. SPY HYSTERIA: LEGISLATION WOULD CUT OFF FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
Amid revelations that large amounts of classified weapons data
had been transferred to an unclassified computer system, Sen.
Richard Shelby (R-AL) introduced S.887, "A bill to establish a
moratorium on the Foreign Visitors Program at the Department of
Energy nuclear laboratories." Nothing that has been made public,
however, suggests that visitors were the problem. President
Clinton warned that the bill would halt exchanges with Russian
scientists aimed at safeguarding Russia's nuclear arsenal.
2. EMF: THEY SAY IT'S NOT OVER TILL IT'S OVER WELL, IT'S
OVER.
The results of a long-awaited Canadian epidemiological study of
childhood leukemia were released today. The massive study,
covering five Canadian provinces, matched 400 children under 14,
diagnosed with leukemia, with 400 controls. Exposure assessments
included 48-hour personal EMF monitoring, as well as measurements
in the children's residences and 24-hour bedroom measurement. The
conclusion was that exposure to magnetic fields was not related
to the risk of leukemia. This agrees with the monumental NCI
study released two years ago
(WN 4 Jul 97).
Nevertheless, a
group convened by the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, many of whom had staked their reputations on an EMF-
cancer connection, voted last fall to label EMF "a possible
carcinogen"
(WN 2 Oct 98),
which led the APS to reaffirm its
position that there is no evidence of a cancer-EMF link.
3. FREE ENERGY: CONFERENCE FEATURES "OVER-UNITY" DEVICES.
Even as this is being written, the much-traveled First International
Conference on Future Energy is continuing in a Bethesda Holiday
Inn
(WN 2 Apr 99).
Yesterday, mindful of my responsibility to
keep WN readers informed, I attended the opening. As I stood at
the back of the room awaiting the start, one of the organizers
came up to me and said: "We have a security cop on the premises."
Well, OK. Tom Valone of the Integrity Research Institute opened
the meeting by telling the audience of about 100 what they came
to hear: "A century of energy oppression" is about to end we
would have free energy now if it weren't for powerful economic
interests. "How many of you want free energy?" Every hand went
up mine included. He then led the audience in a chant of: "We
want free energy. We want ..." No, I'm not making this up.
4. ECHINACEA: YOU'D BE BETTER OFF TAKING "VITAMIN O."
The high-priced salt water might not help, but at least it didn't make
people sick
(19 Mar 99).
A study being presented today at the
International Conference on Integrative Medicine in Seattle,
claims that Echinacea, the world's top selling herbal supplement,
which is taken by millions to ward off colds and flu, has a side
effect. It increases the incidence of colds and flu. Previous
studies had merely indicated that Echinacea was not effective.
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