Dr george carlo biography

George L Carlo was one of the most prolific science corrupter in the American scene, and he worked for any industry that would pay. Initially he built his business working for Dow Chemicals through the E Bruce Harrison Company countering the claims that the dioxin contaminants were producing cancers and child deformities. Later, he was hired through Ketchum PR to run the Wireless Technology Research program for the Cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA). It had been discovered that the strobe-pulsed output from the first form of digital mobile phone (known as 'D-AMPS' and 'GSM') caused breaks in the DNA in laboratory animal studies. He set up a couple of major corporate-research operations, and In between times Carlo and his partners and staff worked for tobacco and other chemical companies with problems. In later life he moved on to various other scams including promoting and selling 'bio-protection devices' to protect mobile phone users from cellphone radiation.

His main company was Health and Environmental Sciences which he later expanded into the Health & Environmental Sciences Group) but he had a half-dozen others, usually incorporating the Carlo name - like George Carlo & Associates and The Carlo Group. His closest associates were Ian C Munro from CanTox in Canada, Jim Tozzi and Thorne Auchter who ran Federal Focus. the Multinational Business Services and the Institute for Regulatory Policy in Washington DC.

Main Lobbying Associates

• Maurice E LeVois who ran Environment

Essential reading for the 100 million Americans currently using wireless phones, this thoroughly researched and documented cautionary work stands alongside of such classics as Silent Spring and The Coming Plague. With news reports proliferating of the possible connection between brain tumours and cell phone use, Dr. George Carlo was hired by the cell phone industry in 1993 to study the safety of its product. In 1999 funds for Dr. Carlo's research were not renewed, and the industry sought to discredit him. Undeterred, Carlo now brings his case to the public with a powerful assessment of the dangers posed by the microwave radiation from cell phone antennas, disruption of the functioning of pacemakers, penetration of the developing skulls of children, compromise to the blood-brain barrier, and, most startlingly, genetic damage that is a known diagnostic marker for cancer, as well as a presentation of safeguards that consumers can implement right now to protect their health. "., the authors raise serious questions about the integrity of the cell phone industry and the FDA.",San Francisco Chronicle "Extraordinarily informative...[a] captivating story, .",Publishers Weekly

George L. Carlo is a Buffalo (NY) born epidemiologist who set up as a science-for-sale entrepreneur in the early days of the Agent-Orange/dioxin problems. At that time he worked both for the Dow Chemical Company in their "flying circus" of experts who were toured around the USA to tell citizens that there was no need to worry ... dioxins were relatively benign... and also for the Chlorine Chemical Council, a subsidiary of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, the descendant of the Manufacturing Chemists Association that attacked Rachel Carson in 1962. [1]

He established a scientific lobbying firm George Carlo & Associates in Washington DC, and hired Maurice Le Vois from California as his west-coast research director. Not long after Carlo and Le Vois jointly established Health and Environmental Sciences (HES) which had both east and west-coast operations. Carlo ran HES-East out of Washington DC, and Le Vois HES-West out of San Francisco.

They then approached Philip Morris with an offer to run a scam project in support of the tobacco industry to prove scientists were biased -- this involved both a phone-survey of doctors and some academics:

1. ) The idea was that these experts were to be questioned in a heavily-loaded way, guaranteed to show they thought passive smoking was likely to be harmful. According to these tobacco-loaded research protocol, this then establishing that these doctors and academics were "biased" against smoking, and were therefore not acting scientifically and couldn't be trusted to act in society's best interests over questions of tobacco safety.
2. ) These pre-determine finding were then to be promoted to the general media as evidence of a general medical "bias" against smoking, further proof that scientists were not dispassionate and couldn't be trusted. [2][3]

This was, in fact, the precursor to the tobacco industry's later anti-science movement which involved a public attack on "junk-science" (any science not to

George Louis Carlo (born August 24, 1953) is an American public health scientist, research director, and consultant, most widely known for investigating the possible negative health effects of mobile phones.

He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) and earned a law degree from George Washington University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and has served on the medical faculties of the University of Arkansas and SUNY-Buffalo, and as an adjunct faculty member of George Washington University's School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Career

From 1993 to 1999 he headed a US$28 million research program funded by the cellular phone industry that investigated the possible health effects of cellular phones. It initially found that there were no significant health threats posed by such devices, but by February 1999 he had changed his mind, saying their use "could lead to genetic damage, which some argue, could lead to cancer." He later said:

The scientific and medical information is in a gray area. We can't say clearly that these things are safe. We have a hint that they are dangerous. [But] we don't know how dangerous. What we do know is that in the four different epidemiologic studies we've done, there are hints of health risks.

Also in the 1990s he headed the Breast Implant Public Health Project, which was funded by the Dow Corning corporation and overseen by the FDA.

Carlo is the founder and chairman of the Science and Public Policy Institute and its sub-project, the Safe Wireless Initiative.

Books

• Carlo, George Louis (1979). "Organic Drinking Water Cont