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2012
CTV Disguised Infomercial as Investigative Report
Is professional ETHICS part of CTV's journalism?
Is professional ETHICS part of CTV's journalism?
Industry-funded and industry-affiliated infomercial was disguised as credible science by CTV News' investigation on Wi-Fi radiation in schools. This piece is a poor attempt to offer false security to the public by using a flawed protocol and skewed data.
It does not appear that CTV has researched or disclosed any conflict of interest with their expert, Mr. Karl Reardon who conducted the testing.
Mr. Reardon is/was:
- A former Director and General Manager of Motorola
- A current industry consultant (Planetworks and Radiowize) with close financial ties to the telecommunication industry
- Collecting paycheques from consultation on cell tower installations
- Author of a celltower guidebook for the Municipal Engineers
- Holder of seven US and EU patents on wireless and data technology
- Chief Technology Officer of Wireless Image whose sole business is the sale of mobile advertising solutions for cellphones.
This might only be a quick story for your program, but this is an important issue to parents for the health of numerous children. To parents who have electrosensitive children, this is even a matter of whether the child can attend school or not.
Instead of engaging an engineer who makes his money from the wireless industry, CTV should have interviewed experts who understand the low-level effects of non-ionizing microwave radiation on human cells, such as Dr. Martin Blank, Dr. Leif Salford, Dr. Henry Lai, Dr. Andrew Goldworthy, Dr. Magda Havas, and Dr. Olle Johansson among others.
Rebuttal to CTV infomercial
Letter from Parent
Parents Concerned
Unethical Behaviour
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