Edited by author 01-15-2004 11:50 AM
I can't pretend this comes as a surprise to me: There's still no evidence - that's neither of any Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, or evidence of any danger from cellphone wireless.

And in both cases, I can't help feeling, we'd have found them by now, if they were there.

But Tony Blair and his group can cling to hope that one day, they may find something crucial; and the Mast Sanity group... well, actually, I checked on their web site and they seem to have gone to sleep since March last year. Have they given up? Or were they all conscripted and sent to the Gulf?

I can't help but wonder exactly what they're measuring - that is WHICH pylons. As I understand it, some emergency services radio nets are subcontracted to mobile telco's - and some of their GSM masts are put to dual use - weak GSM signals, AND the rather stronger signals used by the ambulance service. There's a degree of coflation here. "Studies show that GSM masts don't cause illness". Maybe so - but what about the OTHER stuff they've got bolted on to some of their masts?
It's not unlike passive smoking and car exhaust. Both contain carbon monoxide. But lock yourself in a garage and start chain -smoking Silk Cut, and it's NOT going to have the same effect as revving-up your Ford Fiesta. Concluding that the CO output from cigarettes doesn't lead to rapid death and cherry-red eyeballs (telltale sign of CO poisoning) doesn't mean that sharing a sealed garage with a car isn't going to kill you. But a similar implication seems to be present. Phone masts are probably safe - provided that's ALL they're being used for. The jury's out on dual-use masts.

i agree with Guy

We cant believe anything the government says...especially after the Iraq affair.