Letter from Professor Olle Johansson
Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden. August 22, 2011
The link gives the entire letter, and French news media coverage of hunger strikers in France. Here an an excerpt from the Pros. Johansson's letter:
When I see the pictures of French EHS people having to go on hunger strike, just to get heard, respected and supported, then I get a feeling of another Europe, far away from democracy, and liberté, égalité & fraternité.
In Sweden, electrohypersensitivity (EHS) is an officially fully recognized functional impairment (i.e., it is not regarded as a disease, thus no diagnosis* exists). Survey studies show that somewhere between 230,000 – 290,000 Swedish men and women - out of a population of 9,000,000 - report a variety of symtoms when being in contact with electromagnetic field (EMF) sources (The National Board of Health and Welfare).
In the U.S.A. many doctors and their organizations dump people who complain of environmental illness when exposed to electromagnetic field sources into psychosomatic or another psychiatric category.
It would be interesting to see what American doctors said about cigarette smoke a few decades ago. Oh, that's right, quite a few doctors smoked themselves. Some even said it was good for you. One cigarette company based its ads on the fact that "more doctors" smoked its brand than other brands. So much for doctors having the ability to see beyond the biases of their time. C'est la vie!
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
EHS people hunger strike in France, Professor Olle Johansson responds
Letter from Professor Olle Johansson
Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden. August 22, 2011
The link gives the entire letter, and French news media coverage of hunger strikers in France. Here an an excerpt from the Pros. Johansson's letter:
When I see the pictures of French EHS people having to go on hunger strike, just to get heard, respected and supported, then I get a feeling of another Europe, far away from democracy, and liberté, égalité & fraternité.
In Sweden, electrohypersensitivity (EHS) is an officially fully recognized functional impairment (i.e., it is not regarded as a disease, thus no diagnosis* exists). Survey studies show that somewhere between 230,000 – 290,000 Swedish men and women - out of a population of 9,000,000 - report a variety of symtoms when being in contact with electromagnetic field (EMF) sources (The National Board of Health and Welfare).
In the U.S.A. many doctors and their organizations dump people who complain of environmental illness when exposed to electromagnetic field sources into psychosomatic or another psychiatric category.
It would be interesting to see what American doctors said about cigarette smoke a few decades ago. Oh, that's right, quite a few doctors smoked themselves. Some even said it was good for you. One cigarette company based its ads on the fact that "more doctors" smoked its brand than other brands. So much for doctors having the ability to see beyond the biases of their time. C'est la vie!
Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden. August 22, 2011
The link gives the entire letter, and French news media coverage of hunger strikers in France. Here an an excerpt from the Pros. Johansson's letter:
When I see the pictures of French EHS people having to go on hunger strike, just to get heard, respected and supported, then I get a feeling of another Europe, far away from democracy, and liberté, égalité & fraternité.
In Sweden, electrohypersensitivity (EHS) is an officially fully recognized functional impairment (i.e., it is not regarded as a disease, thus no diagnosis* exists). Survey studies show that somewhere between 230,000 – 290,000 Swedish men and women - out of a population of 9,000,000 - report a variety of symtoms when being in contact with electromagnetic field (EMF) sources (The National Board of Health and Welfare).
In the U.S.A. many doctors and their organizations dump people who complain of environmental illness when exposed to electromagnetic field sources into psychosomatic or another psychiatric category.
It would be interesting to see what American doctors said about cigarette smoke a few decades ago. Oh, that's right, quite a few doctors smoked themselves. Some even said it was good for you. One cigarette company based its ads on the fact that "more doctors" smoked its brand than other brands. So much for doctors having the ability to see beyond the biases of their time. C'est la vie!
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