STUK censored blogs: ICNIRP wall starts to break

The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK, SäteilyTUrvaKeskus) got worried.

In January 2009 STUK tried a new, more open strategy, so their representatives started blogging and getting feedback.

On  23rd June 2009 all four official blogs (one in English, three in Finnish) were shut down  and removed from the STUK website as “not being in line with the STUK policy” :-(

The content of those censored blogs is revealing and especially comments are worth reading.

Take a look what was censored:

- 2 blog threads in English from Professor Dariusz Leszczynski: “Thermal or Non-Thermal: That is the Question” + “From China with Love”. Dariusz himself writes very wise and neutral blog posts and I am glad that a) he continues blogging in this new address, b) he has saved the original comments.

_{- 1 blog thread in Finnish from the Director of STUK, Jukka Laaksonen: “}Ionisoimaton säteily ei ole riskitöntä _{”,  a screen capture. Translation:  ”Non-Ionising Radiation Is Not Risk-Free Radiation”).}

No wonder the STUK sponsors: service providers and mobile manufacturers, got upset and perhaps increased pressure towards STUK to shut down those blogs in the STUK website.

The discussion (Comments) in those blog threads contain sensitive topics: Biological effects, the twisted funding of scientific research, thermal hot-spots, risks of TETRA [1],[2], people getting ill/staying ill at 1/10.000 part of thermal-only based ICNIRP guidance levels etc. It seems to me that those "radiation protection" authorities in Western countries just can not handle their job any more to protect population; this censorship shows it very clearly.

- See also my previous story about the closed club called ICNIRP with a nice video ;-)

- Check how difficult it was here in Finland to get the chidren's mobile phone use related recommendation from the STUK.

- Check how the ICNIRP Game is being played (search for "ICNIRP game") and why science is not science any more [1],[2],[3],[4],[5].

Glad to hear your opinions, folks :-)

Comments

[Mihkel Oja]

Excellent post as always.

Thanks Mikko!