Another Group Email from Harlan Girard
Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 3:37 PM
1. At a recent AGM of the American Psychological Association, a group
of righteous members tried to get a motion adopted which would have
held them all to their own Code of Ethics. Inasmuch as so many well-
paying jobs are available today in torture, their motion failed. For
those of you who may be interested, the righteous member's position
paper against employment in torture may be accessed at http:/
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20354.htm .
2. In the Congressional Record of August 1, 2008, there is a short act
entitled "Restoring America's Integrity Act". The number is S. 3437
and it is preceded by a wordy speech of introduction on its behalf by
Senator Feinstein on behalf of herself and Senators Rockefeller,
Whitehouse, Hagel, and Feingold. You can find a copy at http:/
www.fas.org/irp/congress/2008_cr/s3437.html . Needless to say, it is
about eliminating the government's use of torture.
3. The report written for the Air Force, which includes the experiment
about degrading human performance with non-ionizsing radiation, was
written for them by a quiet think-tank called Southwest Research
Institute. It's still out there, catering to the military's need for
biased advice. It has a website which you can easily Google up. Among
the entries is a reference to an article http:/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Southwest_Research_ Institute . The SWRI was founded in 1947 by Thomas
Slick, Jr. the father of Grace Slick, the lead singer of the Jefferson
Airplane.
4. In 2006, three Past Presidents of the Bioelectromagnetics Society
got togehter with 9 world-renowned scientists and some public health
officials to attempt to figure out whether they had covered every inch
of the controversy surrounding the health effects of non-ionizing
radiation, as if they had never reflected thoughtfully on the subject
before. Surprisingly, they identified potential heakth issues of some
importance. Consequently, they organized their toughts on the subject
and they are available online at http:/
www.bioinitiative.org . Perhaps
one of you will visit that site and see whether there is anything of
interest to us in particular on it.