Is Your Motorcycle Giving You Cancer?

On Wednesday, Chipkar Health Concepts Limited announced that author Randall Dale Chipkar has published a book called Motorcycle Cancer? in which he speculates that radiation from motorcycle engines could be a modern day "Black Plague".

Saying that the prostate is one of the closest delicate glands invaded by the radiation along with the colon and neighboring organs, Chipkar a few years ago was going to buy his dream cycle, but he placed his extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic field (EMF) Guass meter over one of the seats of an idling bike and was shocked to see the extremely high radiation readings.

"It's a paradox that thousands of motorcycle riders participate in fundraiser rides for cancer awareness when the event itself may be causing cancer...I have met countless avid motorcycle riders diagnosed with similar forms of cancers and disorders. All of these riders had a type of extremely low frequency electromagnetic field radiation shooting up from their motorcycle seats...The motorcycle industry needs to further investigate this EM danger and implement protective measures to minimize rider radiation exposure...People should not have to gamble with their health because they love riding motorcycles...Historically, organizations claimed 'inconclusive proof' concerning electromagnetic health issues. However, inconclusive proof does not mean that something is safe," says Chipkar.

However, critics of people such as Chipkar claim that these doom-and-gloom concepts regarding radiation have been heard before and have been conjured up since the 1950s, when atomic energy had firmly become embedded in Americans' psyches, and they never amount to anything other than conspiracy theories.

The critics say that it is too easy to scare people about exposure to radiation because those who can gain from the fear mongering fail to make distinctions between different kinds and levels of radiation exposure.

There are two kinds of radiation: particle and electromagnetic. Electromagnetic radiation can also come in two forms: ionizing and non-ionizing.

The critics of the scares over EMF radiation say that this radiation is everywhere around us, even in the atmosphere, and is being emitted all over the place from a vast array of man-made things including power lines, computers, cellular telephones, microwave ovens, television sets, radios, and so on. What's more, they say, most of this radiation is non-ionizing and, therefore, harmless except in overwhelmingly concentrated doses. Cosmic rays would be an example of ionizing radiation.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Energy jointly conducted a five-year investigation into the effects of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields from 1993 through 1998. All three agencies agreed that the scientific evidence for ELF EMF exposure posing any health risks is "weak".

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