And on page 61 of the same book, he states:

In the middle '70s, during the energy crisis brought on by the oil "shortages", I was working for the state Department of Employment as an employment counselor. Word came down from the state capitol to all managers that electricity was to be conserved by shutting off alternate banks of overhead fluorescent lights. At first the relative dimness seemed depressing, but I noticed that almost immediately the sound level had diminished: we all seemed to speak in lower, more modulated voices. The applicants who sometimes had to sit and wait to be interviewed, whether for unemployment insurance eligibility or job possibilities, also seemed to have less hostility toward us when we finally got to them, and the noise level from the waiting room had decreased. At the day's end, I for one felt much less tired. I remember speaking to some of my colleagues, who also felt the difference, except that they objected to the "gray lights". I mentioned the welcome change to our manager and suggested that perhaps we could function more efficiently with less glaring fluorescence overhead on a permanent basis, and even recommended that he report this to the powers in the state capitol. I was told not to rock the boat, and as soon as the "crisis" was over, the lights came back on, and so did the noise level, the angry voices, and that tired feeling by the middle of the day.

To quote some further findings of Jacob Liberman

The lowest risk of developing skin cancer is found in those whose main outdoor activity is that of 'sunbathing'. Double the risk of developing melanomas is to be found in office, shop and factory workers who have to work indoors all day under fluorescent lights.

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The cool white fluorescent bulb is legally banned in German hospitals and medical facilities.

Whilst writing this article my wife informed me that she experienced a similar event at her very first place of employment following her leaving school in 1969. She spent the first seven years of her working life in the employment of several of New Zealand's largest stock and station agent's offices throughout the Auckland area. These offices, which adjoined massive wool stores, were large and housed a good many office workers. She cannot remember the exact dates, but remembers it was somewhere close to the mid 70's, and recalls a period when all the agents simultaneously removed the standard Edison tungsten lighting and replaced it with fluorescent lighting right throughout not only the offices but the wool stores as well. She well remembers the Wool Managers commenting amongst themselves approximately 8 months or so after, that the staff were getting sicker and absenteeism from the actual workplace during the day was getting more commonplace. Soon after, in her workplace, and in the other stock and station agent's premises, an itinerant nurse visited the premises on a weekly basis and gave health checks to all staff. Headaches, particularly severe migraine and lack of energy seemed to particularly prevail as the strongest complaint which sent staff home to recuperate, only to present, time and again, continuously as the major problem. All my wife recalls is that approximately 18 months on, the fluorescent tubes were ripped out and the standard Tungsten lighting was returned.

Full spectrum light, i.e., fluorescent light is an impossibility and therefore a false claim. The fact of the matter is that fluorescent light is such a hopeless jumble of light frequencies and radio waves that it is impossible to differentiate it as a safe full spectrum light. It provides no protection from the dangers of radiation, it simply only provides better illumination. I have not yet finished pointing out the harmful radiation from these lights. In addition to radiating radio light frequencies, and other harmful radiation, they also radiate mercury vapour, which can not be shielded. Mercury vapour's worst and most harmful effect on humankind is its insidious invasion of the brain, causing a crippling neurological result called "chronic mercurialism" which progresses slowly effecting many parts of the body. As it happens history has this as a long established fact to be read about and horrified by in a publication some years ago in the October 1972 issue of the National Geographic Journal Vol. 142, No. 4, which graphically illustrates in colour the horrific extent to which mercury, and its insidious companion mercury vapour, crippled thousands of quicksilver mine workers and killed myriads of others through its other uses throughout the world. You will find reference to the subject on the cover of the issue under the list of articles featured within the issue and captioned "Mercury, Man's Deadly Servant". The article itself is to be found on pages 507 through to 527 and it is headed "Quicksilver and Slow Death" by John J. Putman, Photography by Robert W. Madden. It is an article that every individual on this earth, health conscious or not, should read and be well and truly warned by.

Some more recent news announcements.

At 6am on Tuesday 29th May 2003, I was listening to the Radio FM News Bulletin and was appalled to hear that the Hawkes Bay Electric Power Board had the audacity to offer its clients "economical electric light bulbs" at a massive discount when purchased for the entire household and thus reduce their power bills by 5% a year. What is concealed in this deal is the fact that the Power Authority has committed a breach, by omission, of failure to inform the public that the said "light bulbs" are FLUORESCENT and is the very same lighting that is banned in German Hospitals and medical facilities.

It is interesting to note that similar offers are being peddled in newspapers countrywide by the various Power Authorities, all in the name of "power savings".

In conclusion, I can only ask and wonder why we are still persisting to use these killers. As for the article I mentioned as being published regarding energy wise tips I now quote one of those tips, i.e.

If every household replaced five frequently used light bulbs with a compact fluorescent bulb it would save 5% of New Zealand's residential electricity use.

Obviously, such a "tip" could only come from but one source - that of crass ignorance, greed and stupidity and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who these people are.

Photography courtesy of Robert W Madden, Washington, National Geographic Journal, Vol 142. No. 4, October 1972, United States of America.