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History teaches that science is often misused by government and industry for selfish purposes, and that more than enough scientists are willing to let themselves misuse in return for professional and/or material benefits. The Pandora Foundation was established to point at the serious harm brought by this attitude on the European citizens and to counteract with information and clarification. The deficiencies, that need to be eliminated, arise mostly from the incorrect information of the public about the true state of knowledge. This misguidance is conferred on compliant scientists who are first upgraded to “experts” and then posted in national and international boards in charge of providing advice to the decision-making governments. In this position it is their task to constantly review the scientific progress made in the various areas of research. In this process they routinely discriminate findings by critical scientists. They are, however, in no way shy of using their own results, quite often produced by industry- and government-funded pseudo-research, as the guiding principles for their actions. This kind of dealing with science is contrary to the system of values European nations feel obliged to. That the decision-makers in politics and industry who betray this ethic principle by misusing science at the cost of the societies get away with impunity must be opposed.
The Pandora Foundation is clearly not in the position to pay attention to all the injustice in this way done to the European citizens by power-hungry and profit-greedy government and industry officials, and to care for remedy. To signal, that something is going wrong in our societies, the Foundation deliberately confines itself to a few of those topics that might have serious adverse effects on future generations. Such a topic is the introduction of the telecommunication technologies that occurred without a preceding investigation of its compatibility for men and nature. Research funded by government and industry still pretends that no health risk does exist for the people as long as the safety limits are observed. Independent research the support of which is of central importance for the Pandora Foundation, leads to quite a different conclusion. Its results clearly demonstrate that the safety limits which have been established in a questionable procedure do in no way protect people from health damages, but by reducing the technical hurdles rather increase the economic benefits for industry.
The results of the EU-funded REFLEX study that were obtained at the Medical University of Vienna and other scientific institutions all over Europe show without any doubt that mobile phone radiation can alter the function and the structure of genes in isolated human cells far below the valid safety limits. In the meantime, this observation has been repeatedly confirmed by research teams from outside the REFLEX project. Of course, evidence of DNA-damaging effects of the mobile phone radiation strengthens the suspicion that this radiation is indeed responsible for an increased brain tumour risk in mobile phone users for ten and more years which has meanwhile be observed in a series of epidemiological studies. In order to avoid drawing any consequences from the REFLEX results, the authorities for radiation protection in Germany have these findings first ignored for years, then wrongfully criticized and finally defamed as fabricated.
How the mobile communication industry – usually supported by governmental institutions – tried to stop progress in science may be illustrated with the following examples:
1) Fraud allegations against unwelcome research results and defamation of their authors’ integrity
The documentation from Franz Adlkofer and Karl Richter shows how unscrupulously government and industry dealt with the research results from the Medical University of Vienna in order to remove them from the scientific literature.
Press release of 18.01.2011 >>> [88 KB]
Documentation of 18.01.2011 >>> [462 KB]
Documentation of 16.03.2011 >>> [459 KB]
2) Refusal to fund independent research
The mobile communication industry obviously regards the recent IARC classification of the high-frequency radiation as "possibly carcinogenic" nothing than an unjustified offence against their interests. To prevent the updating to "probably carcinogenic" as long as possible, independent research projects which may confirm the brain tumour risk of mobile phone users even further, are not funded in other countries, too. This may be the reason why government and industry in Sweden refused to financially support Prof. Lennart Hardell from the Department of Oncology at the University Hospital in Orebro in the evaluation of already available epidemiological data.
Prof. Hardell's grant application >>> [167 KB]
Appeal to the European citizens to donate for this research project >>>
3) Funding of pseudo-research: Examples from the German Mobile Phone Telecommunication Research Programme
Obviously, this research programme, jointly funded by government and industry, pursued the goal to free mobile communication radiation from the suspicion of being harmful for people and to guarantee the validity of the present safety limits. The methods applied have a lot in common with opportunism, but barely anything with science.
Press release >>> [102 KB]
Critical comment 1 (PDF) >>> [328 KB]
Critical comment 2 (PDF) >>> [124 KB]
4) The control of science and research by government institutions
A document from Australia gives evidence that the Australian government since decades places commercial interests of the industry in the area of non-ionizing radiation over public health care interests. This example can be applied to what has happened, and is still happening, in all the industrial countries since the commercial potential of electromagnetic fields has been discovered.
Documentation by Don Maisch, Australia >>> [346 KB]
Appeal for donations
Who, just like the Pandora Foundation, believes that it is in the interest of the European citizens to no longer stand by and watch how people's health and nature's preservation are sacrificed to commercial interests is invited to support the Foundation's work with ideas and donations. The balance of powers can only take a turn for the better when the European citizen unite and jointly oppose the economically dominated decisions by government and industry.
With your ideas and donations you will make it possible that the Pandora Foundation reaches the weight necessary to be heard by those in power. Persons who wish to support the Foundation’s intensions with even more engagement are offered the opportunity to directly take part in its activities and to co-decide on the use of funds.
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