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There is strong evidence that life (human and otherwise)
may be able to detect (or be affected by) radio waves.
By TOM JASKI
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N a recent editoriAl (August, 1959),
Hugo Gemsbu:k called for a :serious
ruppraisal of the of radio
7&Vea oD human and animal physi-
olonr. ID iew of the casual use
of high-power radar and industrial rf
be.atiDil' equipment, this is certainly a
timely word of warning.
It ia DOt surprising then that the
Air Force ia already keenly aware of
theM problems, and hu a number of
projecta onder way to di.;.cover the
eXact dfec:tl of radar
pul-. and microwaves on human and
anill'.al tisaue. These projects are being
carried out at ou r major
eac:b spec:i.aliz:ing in one particular fre-
quency. For example. the p roject at t he
un ivenity of California, under the
direc:tioD ot Pro!. Charles Susskind,
is primarily thl! of
:s-cm radar enel10'. Test subjects a1e
mice, ants, and yeast cells.
Thetm.l effec:ts
Of gnat importance, and therefore
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under intensive investigation, .are the
thermal effects of such waves, and
have been measured rather precisely
under a variety of conditions.
Using mice as subjects, it was found
that near-lethal doses of radiation do
not seem to cause any pathologic.al
changu in them, and that the lethal
effect is primarily an overtaxing of the
mice's temperature-balancing system.
I t was found t hat the major huting
effect took place immediately under the
skin, b\lt of heat generated there
is rapidly distributed through the body.
The of the mice was moni-
tored continuously. The photograph
shows zoologist Susan Prausnitz moni-
t oring the temperature of a mouse sus-
pended in the wire cage right in front
of the waveguide just visible on the
left. The mouse is slowly rotated to in
sure even radiat ion over the entire
body. Death occurred in 60'/ of. the
mice when a critical tempertre of
44.t c was
Other interesting finding3 include the
Zooloclot c:heek
the temperature
oi a moa..te ( ci.-.
cled objed u ..
J)eDded iD froDt
of w ... ep.ide).
fact that radar waves appear to h:ne
no silrJlilicant el!eet on Ule fertility o1
the male mice.. Tbe el!ec:ta of radar
waves on the longevity o! the mic:e are
currently beinc innetipted.
An intensive aeries of. experiments
was carried out on cellular organiamll.
such a.s yea.st cells, but. other than
showing thermal effects, the experi-
ment. were inc:onclua.ive. Similar ex-
periments with insects such as ants
delivered relatively data. But one
interesting item which was
that the normally moving every
which way, in a Petri dish, tiJ'iU CJll li"e
''P i11 4 c:Uig11mg 47t-
telii!CI4 pura.llel to th fi4/.d, apparently
to minimiz.e the
The project is continuing, and more
research on mice, ant.s .nd other ani-
mals is contemplate-d. Psychological
will be looked into. One promis-
ing item in the ant experimenu was
that the which were exposed to
3-cm waves apparently loet the ability,
at least temporarily, to communicate
the source ot food to their f.d.lo .... s, aa
anu usually do. It may be signiHcant
that tlle large ants used have antennas
which me.as ure very nearty one-fourth
the wavelength of the 3-cm radiation.
Incidentally, mice are so frequently
used !or this kind of experimo:nt be-
cause they are e&.'Jily handled, easily
obtained and relatively inexpeDsive,
while their physiology and metabolism
bear a useiol resemblance to human
c:otmterparu in some waya. The lile
span of a mouse is limited, permit-
ting experimenten to evaluate i'enetic
effects over several generations.
.Meanwhile other service bre1:1chet are
carrying out research program con-
cerned with the el!ec:ta of radio waves
on animal li!e, not nec:esaarily limited
to radar f.requenciea. A public an-
nouncement by scientiata at the Na-
t ional Institute for Neurological Die-
eases concerning the lethal etfecta of
388-mc radio waves on monkeys a lso
shows there is gr1!Bt inter-eat in other
f requencies and etrec:ta. beside.a
Some early reports
As long ago as 1930, Nrunori claims
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to ha,e evidence that the human indicate any poinu at which he
organism "radiates" and "reacts to" notice anything unusual. The subjects
radio waves of 2.33 meters and its har- were not allowed to see the dial. At a
monies--in other words: 129. 258, 387 particular frequency, between
and "!c. . 380 and 500 me for different subjects,
Th1s brmgs to mtnd the work of a they repeatedly indicated a point with
man who started publishing articles on aln1o:st unbelievable accuracy (as many
this kind of subject more than 35 years as 14 out of 15 times).
ago. An Italian university professor Subsequent experiments with the
named Cazz.a:malli placed human sub- same subjects showed that at the ''in-
jects in a shielded room, aubjected them dividual.. frequency, strange things
to . higbfrequency radio waves, and were felt. Asked to describe the experi-
daamed to be able to record a "beat" ence, all subjects agreed there was a
which. he received on a sitnple untuned definite "pulsinc'' in the brain, ringing
. receinr eonsisUDT of a crystal, in the ears and a desire to put their
a small capacitor, antenna and aensitive teeth into the nearest experimeDter.
1alvanometer. Cauamalli's equipment, The oscillator in this case was putting
u well as it can be determined !ron\ out only milliwatts of power, and waa
his early nrticles, is shown in Fir. 1. placed several f eet from the "ubject.
The one item he never
perhaps because he could not accurately
determine it, is the power of hill tran:t-
mitter. He published oscillograms pur-
showing variations of the
-t>t>au when his subject. were emG-
tionally aroused or engaged in creative
efforts. Later experiments delivered
much more startlinll' results: he found
that .st>mt of his s ubjP.ds would halluci-
n;.&te under the inftuence of high-fre-
quency radio waves, which by then
ranged all the way up to 300 me.
Tbe Cazzamalli experiments were
carefully duplicated with mode,rn equip-
moent. of much greater sensitivity than
his. His "osciUatori telerrafiea" (pre.
sumably a transmitter as used for wire-
less telegraphy) was replaced with a
w:ry modest Jow-power oscillator. The
reason for this was twofold. Ia the first
place, university authorities take a very
dim view of experiments on human
even if these s ubjects are the
scientists themselves, volunteering for
the part. Second, a previous experiment
had indicated in a rather startling way
that power wu not required to evoke
elfec:ts in the human nwvous system.
In fact, there :seemed to be some
of resonant applicable to
each individual huma.o..
ffiec+s on humans
That uperil:nent was suggested by the
behavior of the monkeys we cited. Tht3e
animals went through a sequence of
which would indicate that
lW>mething besides thermal elfects was
operating. To discover if this "some-
thing" was subjectively noticeable by
an individualr a weak oacillator wa3
swept through the band from 300 to 600
me with the :requeat that the subject
Optic:.sl and growth efreck
It wu not the first time that such
phenomena had been observed. Van
EverdinR"en, a Dutch scientist, had dis-
COI(..t'red many years thllt radiation
would affect the heartbeat of chicken
when he was
with the effects of hiJ::h frequency
radiation on growth (specifically work-
in" toward any etfcct it might have on
malignant growths). Van Everdingen
used 1.8i5 me and 3,000 me and dis-
covered that this kind of radiatiOn
would change the optical properties of
a glycogen S{)lution. Glycogen is a sub-
stance which occurs very abundantly in
chicken embryos, particularly at an
early stage of development. It is also
the subJtance which provides our mua-
des with I Van Everdingen
found that thill change of optical
pola tiution had some conne-ction with
tumor growth. He proceeded to re-
rotate the polarization in extracts ob-
tained from tumor-producing mice.
When this optically "pure" aubstance
wa$ injected into mice with malignant
tumors, and thut mice wert kept 071 a
diet free of animal {ott, tilts tumor
tJ.oOKld cto. to grow. Only radiation at
uhf or shf would produce these effects
in the he uJed.
But Van Everdingen was not the only
one who discovered important 1acts
about radiation on living tissues. Years
before, a F1enchman named Lakhovsky
claimed to have removed tumors !rom
patients with high-frequency radiation
treatments, and his book, The Secret of
Life,. has a number of attestations in
it from grateful patients who were
cured. Lakhovsky stated that healthy
plant growth is materially aided by
placing a copper ri!lg about 8 inc:hu in
diameter and supported on an inaulat-
ing woode.n stic:k (Fig. 2) around the
planL tumerous growths on
plants disappeared within such a ring.
Lakhovsky's experiment with pl anb
has been duplicated succeufully. But
then wt should also Dote that the same
kind of thing has been done by a group
of devout citizens using group prayer!
But the people who have
the most data on the subject of uhf
radiation effecta on animals and human
subjects are the Rus3ians. In Bio{L.ico,
the Russian biophysics journal, a aden
tist named Livshib published two sur-
vey articles on the work that had been
done in this field by 1958 ano..l 1959. They
are too extensive tG repeat in great de-
tail here, but some of the more impre.t
sive highligh\:1 wiU be reported.
.Many experiment. were carried out
on animals with conditioned reftexes
and one by Glezer showed that a weax
uhf field would inhibit the conditioned
reftex, indicating that some inhibition
of the cortex wu laking place.
As in Van Everdingen's experiment
with chicken eggs, Pardzhanid.ze showed
that the EEG's of rabbits were d ru-
tically changed when the animals were
subjected to a uhl field. Bludova,
Kurilova and Tikhonova showed that
the field produced an of sen!i-
tivity in the retina. and simultaneously
reduced the area of color sensitivity. It
is interesting to speculate how this
wuuld correlate with the Land effects.
(Land, of Polaroid camera fame, has
shown recenUy th.at our concepts of
three-color vision may well be false,
and that color vision seems to depend
primarily on the presence of two images
stimulated by two different frequencies
of light!)
Turlygin similarly showed that the
sensitivity of the eyes of dark-adapted
subjects at. marginal levels was in
creased as much as 1009'o by the pres-
ence of a uhf field.
Nerve effeds
Of importance in the light of Lak-
hovsky's claims ia the experiment by
Fls. 2--.4. copper rins, elsht inehe. LD
diameter, ..-em to plant lfi'OwUa
(after photosraph in Srea o/ l.i/e br
Lakhonky).
Grigcn!va, whQ showed that short eX
posures to uhf would expedite re-
growth of severed nerve tissue, while
prolonged exposure would suppress the
n:growth.
A fact discovered many years a&o
is that a uni field will have an analgesic
(pain.reduc inl!{) effect on nerves, and
radiation therapy of patien Wt th
painful diseases such as arthritis is
iairl v common ora.ctice here and aoroad.
! i th.e fieid very intense, the sitt:a
tion reverses, and the erfects on the
nervu can be extremely p::linft:l, as
Le!ledinskii repor ts.
experiments are cited
which des! with t he simul taneot:s erfect.3
oi variou:l kinds of drugs, stimulants
and toxins, and uhf fields. :\boy o!
t he$e deal with very specific react ions
and conditions, and any
would be rather meaningl ess. One par-
ticularly wa.s of interest because oi its
relation to the experiments of the late
Pavlov, the !ather of the condi tioned
aftex. This expniment shows that the
field increues the secretion oi hista
in the. stomach, and in related
experiments that the secretion of diges-
t ive juice which llrtilicially stimu-
lattd by such ,]rugs as atropine is
mater ially rtdu..:ed by the field.
to home, we find that Hugh
Fleming at Oregon State car-
ritd 01H experiment$ on ;he erfecu o!
hign. frequency on rn:croor;:-an-
isms. Flendng racliat !on at ire
var ying from 10 meters to 90
em ( 30 to 270 me). One rest; It that
the rau of growth of cells will
to a power level, and t hen will
5n:lrply decrease. Time of txposure l!nd
conductivity of the medium are impor-
tan: variables (a3 was also
\'an ,Everdingen, al,;o found the
ol the medium to be most im-
portant).
Summing it up
what does all this mean i n terms
of )l r. Gernsback's warn:ng statement'?
If you consider the few items we have
been able to GUote (more detail can be
found in the art ides cited in che bibli-
OlCriolphy), it is ob1ious we are in
some way susceptible to radio waves,
and that our susceptibility is net neces.
sarily limited to a particular frequency.
:S or ar e large amounts oi puwer re-
-..uired to produce some oi the effe<:ts
U.i.
But preeiseiy what these effects
we underlltand not at a !l. Van Ever-
Jin;,!e.n points out the oi
molecular resonance, affectir.g the
chemical bonds in our very substance.
egg experimenW certainly ind;cate
some sort oi interference with the cor
tex (our "gray matter'' J which may
both our thinki ng i!nd our control
ovtr the baser" drives (l!:enerall.y con-
.;icio!reJ to be generated in Lhe lower
of the brain, but norma:ty con-
trolled or inhibiLed by the cortex.).
0'.1 r phy3iological functions, suo:h as
our dige:$t ion, o:ur ability to see and
reo:over from damage when are
involved may well be drast ically
atfected if we are subjected Ito a high
enough level. Tumors may be
inhibited by the proper kind o! radio
waves yet, in othc:r casu, particularly
when coupled with the "wrong" kind of
diet, radiation may also promote the
growth of tumors. (This too was dem-
onstrated by \'an Everdiragen in
land.)
We do not yet know it: our longevity
will be aifected. Certainly we should
consider the pos.iibility that there may
be some relationship between the in-
crease of cancer and the amount of
radiation we indiscriminately spew into
the a tmosphere. Or even that there may
some connection between that radia-
t ion and our sharply incr e.;uing crima
We simply do not know enough
about the elfects, but what little we do
know would tend to make ::\lr. Ger ns-
back's warning 11.11 the more urgent. For
whi:e there is nothing lethal :about the
of radio-f requency eneri'Y we ab-
sorb daily, neither is ther e anything
lethal in the study drip of waur on a
man's iorehead-but it was effectively
by medieval to d r ive him
out of his mind. Perhaps we
have a responsibility to mankind, be-
fore w.e fill in all the gaps in the radio
spectrum, to discover once and f or all
if we are affecting human life on this
planet. And if so, in what manner, as we
finally had to do for another surpri:.e
ou t of Pandora's box, man-made rsdio-
activity. E:-:D
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ena !tom C rebrut'fl Ourinq Actli ... ity
of Artitfjc Ntur ,"' Neurologico. 19l5,
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Bi ophraiu of Cnbrt.tm, Quod rltl 01 Psi cltio#i .
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n<l Ro<li tion fr11101
Cerbrwm,'' Neuolog;co, lr.U.
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R. dl. ti ol\ .,,d lioptliy1ic ' MtP'Iod of bpiOtitHil It;
fol .. 1914.
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froq:.oncy of 1375 me." He dorlondlo Tljdachtift .. .,..,
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!lo,;1llo, Vo. 31, No. l. pp. I HI.
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F..llct;ona of Norvo .. Syarom," llo/irito, Vol. l , No.
4, pp. fm.
lo.. S. Pnumo,_" Mttlloda of b.oorl,..ftl olly
at;no Small Attftt'h wrth C' f" i "' ... ' w ... , .... to-
lil ilo, Vol. l , No . J, pp.
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El"''"""'lnl lit Ylb,.liont, 7htir on liwiOWil
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