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From the June 1959 edition of The DelaWarr Labs

Mind & Matter Journal.

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Effects of Radio Waves gets Wider Laboratory Study

(This second article in The New York Times of April 6 describes

Mr. John Osmundsen's interview with Dr. A. J. Ginsberg after

reporting the previous week on parallel work by Dr. John

Heller. The importance of this work may be judged by the large

number of University research programmes that are being

diverted in the United States to the effect of radio wave

frequencies on health, although for years scientists have

denied that such effects are possible. It is to be hoped that

the work and research at the DelaWarr Laboratories will now

receive more serious attention.....The Editor)

Research into the harmful effects and the possibly beneficial uses

of high-frequency radio waves on living things is reported to be

expanding rapidly in laboratories in the United States and Canada.

Investigations sponsored by the armed services are going on in at

least ten American Universities and research institutes. The

research is aimed at providing knowledge that will make it possible

to live safely with the increasingly powerful radar and other micro-

wave generators being developed.

Although existing devices are said to be completely safe if properly

handled the most powerful are believed to be potentially capable of

causing SERIOUS DAMAGE AT A DISTANCE OF SEVERAL MILES. It is

assumed, also, that the implications this has for weapons

development are being investigated.

Parallel studies into the possible beneficial effects of much lower-

powered pulses radio waves have been begun or are expected to begin

soon in fifteen or twenty other laboratories.

This work has been instigated largely by Dr. A. J. Ginsber, a New

York physician. He has reported the successful treatment of

hundreds of cases of acute and chronic infections with these radio

waves.

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Dr. Ginsberg admits that he does not know how the apparent cures

with his so-called DiaPulse machine were brought about. But he has

a theory about the ways in which pulsed high-frequency radio waves

interact with living tissues. This theory has interested several

prominent investigators sufficiently to prompt them to begin

research into the matter, many with their own funds.

Dr. Herman P. Schwan, Director of the Electro-Medical Laboratory of

the University of Pennsylvania - who consulted with Dr. Ginsberg on

several research programmes - is cautious but not discouraging. In

a recent interview Dr. Schwan remarked, "There is an interesting

possibility that Dr. Ginsberg's machine may turn out to be a very

important advancement in physical medicine."

Ironically, the effect of high-frequency radio waves on biological

systems that Dr. Ginsberg believes can help relieve infections is

one of the effects being looked for by the armed services as a

possible hazard of high-powered radio waves.

What both groups are looking for are biological responses to radio

waves that do not result from heating. Although these athermal

effects have not been demonstrated conclusively many scientists

engaged in this work agree that they exist.

Heat Long in Use

The fact that radio waves can cause heating in tissues has long been

known and has been widely used to treat inflammations and injuries

to joints and soft tissues. This treatment, called diathermy, uses

short-wave radio frequencies. Much more powerful higher-frequency

(shorter wave) radar used for this purpose would cook internal

tissues.

Dr. Ginsberg said that in 1943 he had investigated the idea that

something other than heating might be going on in tissues treated

with diathermy. In a paper published in THE MEDICAL RECORD for

December 19 of that year he reported diathermy results that he felt

could NOT BE ACCOUNTED for PURELY BY HEAT.

This led him, he said, to try to eliminate the heating effect of the

diathermy. He explained that the most logical means for doing this

seemed to be to pulse the radio waves in such a way that any heat

created would be dissipated between pulses.

With the help of Arthur Milinowski, a physicist, Dr. Ginsberg built

a machine for this purpose and soon, he claimed, supported his

contention that there was a beneficial athermal effect of radio

waves on tissues.

According to Dr. Ginsberg's theory the athermal effect of pulsed

radio waves STIMULATES THE BODY'S DEFENSE MECHANISM, marshalling the

system that scavenges foreign materials and tissue debris. This

system is believed to produce antibodies which act against

infectious invaders.

Two reports apparently substantiating claims for an athermal effect

were made in the March 28 issue of NATURE, a British scientific

publication, and in the RES BULLETIN, an American journal.

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Those papers carried accounts of the bizarre behaviour of micro-

organisms and the apparent interference with heredity-controlling

material in certain plant cells CAUSED BY PULSED RADIO FREQUENCIES.

The work, done by Dr. John H. Heller and his group at the New

England Institute for Medical Research in Ridgefield, Conn., was

instigated by Dr. Ginsberg's search for scientists to look for an

athermal effect of pulsed radio frequencies. A modified version of

Dr. Ginsberg's device was used in the group's early work but it has

since built its own radio pulse generator.

Dr. Heller reported that he was UNABLE TO DETECT ANY TEMPERATURE

RISE in the cell containing tiny micro-organisms that swam either

back and forth or up and down in response to different frequencies

of the pulse radio waves.

Dr. Schwan believes his group at the University of Pennsylvania has

found still another way in which high-frequency radio waves might

affect living tissues athermally.

This is to CHANGE THE PERFORMANCE OF NERVE CELLS by acting on the

cell membrane. How this would ultimately affect the organism,

however, is not known, Dr. Schwan said.

Dr. Schwan and several other scientists agree that a great deal must

be learned at a very fundamental level to find out exactly what

effects other than heat are created by high-frequency radio waves in

living tissues and then whether those effects are good or not. This,

he explained, is a job that will take many years.

In the meantime the armed services are studying means for protecting

persons who work around radar installations with radar-reflecting

clothes and shielded buildings and passage-ways.

Those steps would be taken largely to give protection against the

heating effects of radar waves, which are known to be capable of

causing cataracts, reproductive cell damage and other injuries.

The Army, Navy and Air Force are also continuing their sponsorship

of extensive research programmes on the biological effects of high-

frequency radio wave energy. Progress in this work will be

discussed at a tri-service meeting later this year.

And extensive clinical studies are being made to see if Dr.

Ginsberg's idea of treating illness with pulsed radio waves can be

evaluated statistically with patients, even though the possible

athermal effects are not yet understood biophysically and

physiologically.