George Carlo

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George Louis Carlo
Born	August 24, 1953
Citizenship	United States
Fields	public health
Alma mater	State University of New York at Buffalo

Contents 1 Career 2 Science and Public Policy Institute 3 Books 4 References 5 External links

George Louis Carlo (born August 24, 1953^{[citation needed]}) is an American public health scientist, research director, and consultant^[1], 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.^[1] 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.^[1]

[edit] 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.^{[citation needed]} These studies found silicone breast implants to have possible long term health effects.

From 1993 to 1999 he headed a US$28 million research program funded by the cellular phone industry that investigated the possible health effects of cellular phones. This research program, as a whole, found no evidence of a health risk, a view which Carlo has agreed with in interviews. However he contends that the program raised some areas of concern which have not been fully explored.^[2]

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.^[3] He later said:

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.^[4]

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 Wi-Fi signals are a factor in the development of autism.[1] 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.^audio In it he speaks about the unexpected findings from research done from 1993 to 1999, funded by the telecommunications industry, which indicated serious health risks and how and why these findings were suppressed on behalf of industry. At the time, the results of the findings were the first findings of their type and Carlo states, “We spoke about these findings of genetic damage, cellular dysfunction and increases in the risks of tumors as red flags of risk [because] we did not have enough science to prove that the risk was there which, incidentally, is not the case now. In ensuing years we have from around the world confirmatory research and now there is no doubt that what we found back then [1999] is indeed the case.” He goes on to explain that from a regulatory point of view, at that time, there was not yet enough scientific evidence to sustain the types of legal challenges that would have come from the industry had they tried to ban cell phones. But now things have changed and as Carlo states, “There is no more question about whether or not the health risk exists, the scientific question for those of us who do this every day is how big is this risk and are we on the beginning slope of an epidemic.” Carlo goes on to explain the number of cell phone users has since then grown by the millions but, because regulatory authorities in Canada or the U.S. have not had the courage to do what is necessary, there are no protections for consumers and until our political agencies (susceptible to industry money) take steps to protect consumers, Carlo says, “unfortunately consumers are in a position where they’re going to have to take care of themselves".

[edit] Science and Public Policy Institute

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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 Safe Wireless Initiative. Through collaborative efforts and research with top scientists^{[citation needed]}, Carlo is proving the mechanism^{[citation needed]} of harm to the cell membrane from all forms of wireless exposure and the synergistic effects with accumulated environmental toxins^{[citation needed]}. 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} It is a free registry to anyone and all information is confidential. Carlo has spoken before Parliament in the UK^{[citation needed]} and is establishing networks globally to help people return to a state of wellness. 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Carlo's Blog from http://www.safewireless.org/
• George Carlo interview videos from emf-health.com, a website selling "Solutions to the Dangers of Electropollution"