George Carlo

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name = George Louis Carlo
birth_date = August 24, 1953
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field = public health
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alma_mater = State University of New York at BuffaloTOCright

George Louis Carlo (born August 24, 1953Fact|date=November 2007) is an American public health scientist, research director, and consultant [http://www.tapsns.com/gallery.php?mode=profile&galleryid=3202 George L. Carlo biography] from tapsns.com (Strategic News Service)] , most widely known for investigating the possible negative health effects of mobile phones.

He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) and earned a law degree from George Washington University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and has served on the medical faculties of the University of Arkansas and SUNY-Buffalo, and as an adjunct faculty member of George Washington University's School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Career

Prior to entering his field in public health Carlo was an assistant football coach for the Buffalo Bulls at the University at Buffalo.

In the 1990s Carlo headed the Breast Implant Public Health Project, which was funded by the Dow Corning corporation and overseen by the FDA.Fact|date=November 2007 These studies found silicone breast implants to have possible long term health effects.Fact|date=July 2008

From 1993 to 1999 he headed the Wireless Technology Research program (WTR),a US$28.5 million research program, employing over 200 doctors and scientists, funded by the cellular phone industry that investigated the possible health effects of cellular phones.Fact|date=July 2008 Interviewed about his work in 2003, Carlo stated that there is no "absolute definitive proof" but that the study had raised "red flags of concern among public health people". [http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/iarc/pageone.html] He later said: [ [http://www.med.nyu.edu/obgyn/patient/article.html?ChunkIID=14687 Are Cellular Phones Dangerous to Your Health?] from an NYU Medical Center website]

:"The scientific and medical information is in a gray area. We can't say clearly that these things are safe. We have a hint that they are dangerous. [But] we don't know how dangerous. What we do know is that in the four different epidemiologic studies we've done, there are hints of health risks."

This research program found evidence of health risksFact|date=July 2008, including single and double strand DNA breakageFact|date=July 2008, and formation of micronuclei, a marker for cancerFact|date=July 2008.

In 2001, Carlo coauthored a book, "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries," which discussed "a sinister web of corporate greed and masterful PR spin that choked his efforts" to follow up these leads. [Carlo, George and Martin Schram (2001). "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries About Cancer and Genetic Damage." Carroll & Graf. ISBN 978-0786708185]

In 2007 Carlo was a coauthor on a paper in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (misreported as the nonexistent "Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine") which claimed that the information carried on radio frequency and microwave signals is a factor in the development of autism. [http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb570198.htm?tag=australasian+journal+of+clinical+environmental+medicine] He states in the accompanying press release that " [t] he electromagnetic radiation apparently causes the metals to be trapped in cells, slowing clearance and accelerating the onset of symptoms", in reference to the controversial heavy metal clearance hypothesis of autism causation.

Carlo was interviewed April 23, 2008 on Vancouver's Co-op Radio, CFRO 102.7 FM. ^{[http://www.animalvoices.org/dynamichealth/dh-2008-04-23.mp3 audio]} , discussing his research and stating that a health risk definitively exists.

Carlo believes that electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones is responsible for colony collapse disorder in bees, and believes that the mobile phone industry is conspiring with scientists and the media to hide this. [http://www.safewireless.org/GetInformed/DrCarlosBlog/tabid/73/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/400/The-Vanishing-Bees.aspx]

cience and Public Policy Institute

Carlo is the founder and chairman of an organisation called the Science and Public Policy Institute (not to be confused with the conservative think-tank also named the Science and Public Policy Institute) and its sub-project, the [http://www.safewireless.org/ Safe Wireless Initiative] , which is associated with electrosensitivity.

He is currently dedicating his life and the work of SPPI, SWI and the affiliated organizations to educating clinicians, consultants and health-care practitioners on protocols of intervention to help victims of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure.Fact|date=March 2008 To this end, he is establishing a Help for Wireless Victims network, whereby people who suffer from "ElectroHyperSensitivity Syndrome (EHS)" and "Membrane Sensitivity Syndrome (MSS)" will have access to health care via a specific HMO.Fact|date=March 2008 He is also developing an educational arm of SPPI and SWI, called EMR University, for clinical, advocacy and consultancy certification in dealing with EMR exposure.Fact|date=March 2008 Through the Health Concerns Registry, the Safe Wireless Initiative is accumulating an enormous database of people who have symptoms and/or illnesses related to or caused directly by EMR exposure.Fact|date=March 2008 It is a free registry to anyone and all information is confidential. Carlo has spoken before a Parliamentare committee in the UK in February, 2007Fact|date=July 2008 and is establishing networks globally to help people return to a state of wellness.Fact|date=July 2008 His view is that "while we wait for more research, illness will reach epidemic levels"; he believes that "there is no choice now but to establish protocols for those affected".Fact|date=July 2008

Books

*Carlo, George Louis (1979). "Organic Drinking Water Contaminants and the Incidence of Selected Gastrointestinal and Urinary Tract Cancers." Ph.D. dissertation. Buffalo, New York: State University of New York at Buffalo.
*Carlo, George L., ed.; Mary Supley, Susan E. Hersemann, and Polly Thibodeau, associate eds. (1998). "Wireless Phones and Health: Scientific Progress". Foreword by George L. Carlo. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0792383478.
*Carlo, George, and Martin Schram (2001). "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries About Cancer and Genetic Damage". 1st Carrol & Graff ed. New York, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. Errata sheet inserted. ISBN 0786708182.
*Carlo, George L., ed.; Polly M. Thibodeau, associate ed. (2001). "Wireless Phones and Health II: State of the Science". Foreword by George L. Carlo. Contains papers presented at the Second State of the Science Colloquium, Long Beach, CA, June 1999, organized by Wireless Technology Research, LLC. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0792379772.

References

External links

* [http://www.safewireless.org/GetInformed/DrCarlosBlog/tabid/73/Default.aspx Carlo's Blog] from http://www.safewireless.org/