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Replication and Extension
of Adey Group’s Calcium
Efux Results*
Carl Blackman
2.1 INTRODUCTION
For most scientists studying the biological effects of radio-frequency (RF) radiation in the early
1970s, the only mechanism of action was heating. The newly commercialized microwave oven
had been brought on the market to make kitchen duties easier and it succeeded. Then many sci-
entists attended the New York Academy of Sciences Meeting on February 12–15, 1974, entitled
Conference on the Biological Effects of Non-Ionizing Radiation. Some attendees were forever
changed by the presentations made by Ross Adey’s group from the UCLA Brain Research Institute. ...