George Carlo's Cell Phone Radiation
Controversy $25-Million Scientific Study Project Part
2
I first recruited dr. Arthur (bill) guy, perhaps the dean of
all bio-electromagnetics scientists and certainly one of the
world's foremost experts in the measurement of radio
frequency radiation. He was emeritus professor at the
university of washington in seattle, and had done work for
the cellular industry before. The ctta had sug¬gested that i
approach dr. Guy about participating, but i did not fol¬low
the suggestion until i had the opportunity to vet him
myself.
That process was easy a simple literature search yielded his
name on virtually every important committee over the past
two decades, and what seemed like literally hundreds of
publications had him in authorship. My first contact with
him was at a meeting in washington, d.c., at ctja
headquarters. He was in town giving advice to ctta about the
siting of base stations for transmitting cellular telephone
calls, and i had arranged to meet with him. i believed it
was important for me to reach out to him, out of respect for
his stature in the field. After the first five minutes i
knew we not only wanted him to be part of the sag, but we
needed him.
He was a tall, rugged-looking man in his early 60s, with a
disarming and low-key demeanor. He looked like a professor,
probably the type that every student wanted to work with. We
talked radio wave dosimetry, the concept i had developed for
the sag, and what his role would be—the head of all the
dosimetry work. He had many tough questions, and i sweated
it out for a while. After all, i knew very little about this
science, had done no research in it, and i was about to
embark on, and in fact head up, the largest program ever
attempted in this field, with no prior experience.
So i was worried, at first, about trying to impress the man
who many people believed was "the field." but when the
conversation drifted to salmon fishing, it was clear we were
comfortable with each other. He agreed to sign on. To round
out the sag i recruited dr. Ian munro, a world-renowned
toxicologist with whom i had worked on a number of prior
projects involv¬ing herbicides and drug development. A
former high-ranking official in the canadian health
ministry, dr. Munro would handle oversight on all nonhuman
research in the program.
He was also a fisherman. So the sag was in place with dr.
Guy overseeing dosimetry, dr. Munro toxicology, and me
covering epidemiology, public health, and gen¬eral
management. We began daily phone conferences and designed
our program. This was April of
1993, and we needed to present our overall program to the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 22. |
"Revolutionary New Technologies
Protect You from the Harmful Effects of
Cell Phone Radiation,
Computers, Bluetooth Headsets, Microwave Ovens,
Cordless Phones, and other Wireless Technologies."
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