Thread by @MicrowaveNews

The first U.S. animal study of long-term microwave exposure was published in 1962. Like many others that would follow, it pointed to a cancer risk -–and it too was never repeated.
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The experiment was by Susan Prausnitz and Prof Charles Susskind @UCBerkeley. Prausnitz later gave up lab work to raise a family. She died on May 20. Susskind died in 2004. In 1976, he joined ERMAC, an influential NIER advisory committee, based at the White House.
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299 male mice were exposed to pulsed 9.27 GHz radar radiation, 4.5 min/day for 59 weeks. It was a crude experiment by today’s standards. Their body temperature was raised by an average 3.3°C. Yet, the mice had an increase incidence of “neoplasms of the white [blood] cells.”
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The @US_FDA was concerned. 15 years later, the agency called it the “most discomfiting study in the available literature” and decried the “long-term failure to follow-up.”
The sponsor, the @usairforce, did not pay for a replication study.
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