Solid science? (Advice and dissent: letters from our readers).Your article "Raising the Alarm" (Your Health, November/December 2001) quotes Dr. Ross Adey as criticizing the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is one of 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),which is a component of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The Director of the NIEHS is Dr. David A. Schwartz. (NIEHS NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH, DHHS) ) for rejecting the findings of our international review panel and concluding that "risk of cancer and other human diseases from electric and magnetic fields magnetic fields, n.pl the spaces in which magnetic forces are detectable; created by magnetostrictive ultrasonic scalers to cause the tips of instruments such as ultrasonic scalers to vibrate. (EMFs) around power lines is weak." Actually, the panel concluded that extremely low-frequency EMFs should be classified as a "possible human carcinogen carcinogen: see cancer. carcinogen Agent that can cause cancer. Exposure to one or more carcinogens, including certain chemicals, radiation, and certain viruses, can initiate cancer under conditions not completely understood. ." The NIEHS fully endorsed the panel's findings, which did not represent a "falsified ... report to say there was no risk," as suggested by Adey. The NIEHS delivered a report to Congress, and it is their responsibility to react. This has never been done to my knowledge but is not under our control. Dr. Christopher J. Portier, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NC |
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