Browse content similar to 11/02/2013. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
For years they stood gathering dust at the history collection across | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Britain. Now, rhino horn like this at a secret location is more | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
valuable on the black market than gold. One kilo can sell for as much | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
as �60,000. Today, rhino horns are at the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
centre of international crime rings. This causes a major security issues | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
for museums and zoos across Europe and can threaten the future of the | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
species. This is our number one quiet life crime in the UK, it is a | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
majorly significant issue and we know that organised crime and other | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
people are involved. In the past we had rhino horns out on open display | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
so people could touch them, that would be unthinkable now. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
In the past six months there have been 20 cases of rhino horn theft | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
across the UK. Collections at Norwich, Ipswich and Leicester have | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
been targeted at police have stepped up their warnings that any | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Rainow specimens alive or dead are under threat. I think that it would | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
be extremely difficult to take a corner from easy rhino but we take | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
effect very seriously. If the threats have been fuelled by | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
the belief in south-east Asia at rhino horn is a miracle cure, that | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
anything from cancer to hangovers can be cured and as the price goes | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
up the attempts to obtain it illegally become even more | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
desperate. The fight to protect rhinos has moved out of Africa and | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
into the Museums and stately homes and print. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
For security reasons I cannot tell you exactly where I am in South | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Yorkshire, I am in a safe storage area to meet in natural history | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
curator. We have always taken it very | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
seriously, obviously we are in charge of caring for all of the | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
objects that are in the museum, that is the idea, but the idea that | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
someone wants to steal is never far from our minds. But when we have a | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
very specific threat, like what we have at the moment, then we will | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
take several precautions. To protect their stocks, some | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
museums have resorted to putting fake corns on display. It is hollow, | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
it is made of resin. A friendly model-maker made this for us. The | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
idea being that if the criminals that were coming to me seems to | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
steal rhino horn don't know whether the rhino horn up on display is | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
real or not then hopefully they will stop doing it. A and Britain's | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
colonial past, hunting big game with a socially acceptable pastime. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
This is hardly the sport for the average man, but for those who get | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
the chance it is the sport of kings. However wrong it seems there, the | :04:40. | :04:50. | |
:04:50. | :04:51. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds | :04:51. | :05:36. | |
dead don't need many specimens to They are just like black rhinos, | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
:05:46. | :05:46. | ||
she is nice and peaceful at the moment. There is something | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
prehistoric about them, they are gorgeous. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
But the fears over their future about them is the same. Security | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
was recently increased to 24 hours per day to counter any set but the | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
staff are aware of what is at stake. We're seeing a demand for rhino | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
horn that is just unprecedented right now. We know, for example, in | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
south-east Asia, particularly China and Vietnam, rhino horn has always | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
been very sought after. It has always been so valuable that people | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
could not afford it, it was good of reach. As the economies of China | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
and Vietnam increase, this has suddenly become in breach of these | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
people there are now demanding rhino horn. The potential demand of | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
that is enormous and unless he can deal with that we will lose these | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
animals. The irony is that according to | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Western scientific research, rhino horn has no medical benefits | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
whatsoever. Rhino horn is not born like the for -- like the horn of a | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
cow, it sets on the top of the skull and is made of Cheriton, like | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
her fingernails. Poaching of these animals has | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
increased by 3,000 % in recent years. Rhino Ark so endangered that | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
some in Europe have become even more of a target. For many people, | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
this makes little difference. I have in front of me is a typical | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
package that we could see, it is produced illegally for traditional | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Chinese medicines. These have minute announced of rhino horn like | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
:07:31. | :07:32. | ||
this. He could have any other time summoning two species as well. This | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
is twice in value as the same weight of gold. The issue is | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
commodity. People can trade this and cut it up and send it to the | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
Far East where it is used illegally, there are massive gains to be made. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
The number of people who want to deal rhino horn means that any | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
museum that hold this type of product is at it. There is one | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
initiative on the horizon that it is hoped that will help turn the | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
tide. Crime fighters and conservation | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
experts are now fighting back. They are using the very latest in modern | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
DNA fingerprinting techniques to try and tackle what -- tackle the | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
fees and poachers dead on. Today, Alastair is heading north to bring | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
his museum's rhino horn to a new project in Scotland that will make | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
collections like is more secure. The forensic scientist here is in | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the process of setting up an international DNA database of every | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
rhino artefact in Europe. This can be used by law-enforcement agencies | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
throughout the world. Do you know how old this rhino horn | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
is? This one dates from 1875. will take a sample from the very | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
base of the core, because that is the most recent growth of the horn. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
That is the youngest DNA, so I will drill a hole in here and I will | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
take a sample for analysis, and the analysis should hopefully generate | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
a profile unique to the scorn, so in the same way that enforcement | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
agencies might key DNA on file that could look a suspect to a crime, we | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
will use rhino DNA. So if a rhino sample is stolen from a museum, and | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
then recovered in trade, we can compare the DNA profile from this | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
item are covered with the DNA profile generated as a result of | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
this project. The database will also have the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
benefit for scientists, too, enabling researchers to learn more | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
about the genetic make-up of rhino populations long since gone to | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
protect the species in the future. Aside from the extra information we | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
are getting about the rhino specimen, which is in itself | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
fantastic, we have a little bit extra security. Is this young rhino | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
-- as this young rhino makes its way in the world, the team curators | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
and managers hope that a renewed focus on rhino conservation and | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
crime prevention will mean that these animals as well as the crisis | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
stricken predecessors are not lost forever. | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
With the rhino population down to less than 5,000, with just 630 | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
eastern blacks like this left in the world, they are running out of | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
time. We need more people to care about the issue. It is difficult to | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
be optimistic about the future of rhinos, with the small numbers that | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
a letter and the incredible demand placed on them and the to be | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
sources to deal with it, I believe that these magnificent animals will | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
:10:46. | :10:49. | ||
Still to come, we need the women who says she is a refugee from the | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
:10:59. | :11:04. | ||
modern world. When Billy was convicted of drug | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
smuggling in the Philippines, he faced dying in prison. He was | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
granted a pardon due to his disability. Since his release last | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
year, Billy has sent -- spent his time warning others about the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
dangers of drugs and the drugs trade. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
20 years ago whilst on holiday Billy Burton made a terrible | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
decision, which would change his life forever. Now Billy is | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
determined to use his experience to ensure that no one else makes the | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
same mistake again. Hello Billy, nice to see you! | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Yeah, you two, how're you doing? I had a lump some in the bank and I | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
thought, I'll just travel. I came to an agreement that I would be | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
paid to take the bag of, of hash, to Australia. Truthfully, I was | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
smoking dope, you know, when I was there. And then you get yourself | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
into a couple of financial difficulties and, these are waiting | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
for you! When were you first aware that | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
something was going very wrong? When they put the bags through the | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
X-ray machine. Normally you would just check your bag in and just | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
your hand luggage is searched. This time the bags went through an x-ray | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
machine. What happened once you had been | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
arrested and caught? You are taken away into, by the, | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
you know customs or in the Philippines it was a narcotics | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
commander. I was there for a month and then my decision came, I was | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
sent there to the maximum. It was built for 3,500 and there was 5,000 | :12:25. | :12:34. | |
there. That was when I first went there. When I left there was 12,700. | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Guy Tweedy, himself a victim of thalidomide started a campaign in | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
2010 to have Billy released from prison, despite the pair never | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
having met. Can you talk me through this | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
impressive amount of files you have here? | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Yeah, there is a lot. It all started with the first part, but | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
the campaign was to get this article into the Sunday Times. That | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
small piece there was the start. First news coverage. | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
Start of the news coverage of the Billy Burton campaign. | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
I spoke to the director of the trust, Dr Martin Johnson and he had | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
told me that he had been in prison a long time. He was able to explain | :13:13. | :13:23. | |
:13:23. | :13:26. | ||
Billy's circumstances in the prison. In the jails, you would have a 20ft | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
by 20ft room and there is 50 people inside. And there is one toilet | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
bowl, no sink. There is a pipe that sticks outside the wall which you | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
will maybe get a gallon of water a day each and if you want a shower | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
it is gone, if you want to drink it, it is gone! | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
It was bad for a normal person but for a disabled person it would have | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
been compounded ten times worse, it's ridiculous! And so I decided | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
to get stuck in. All of these Newspapers! All of these! This is | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
an amazing amount of coverage! $$GREEEN A lot of people crticised | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
me for getting involved in Billy's case because he had broken the law | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
and been sent to prison. Now, I'm a believer in law and order, Billy | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
pleaded guilty, he was given a sentence. When you campaign you | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
must make sure that the crisis will get picked up and I made sure that | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Billy's name was mentioned all the time in the papers and it was just | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
a lot of things coming together. The big breakthrough for me was | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
having a meeting in December 15th with Jeremy Brown, who was the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Foreign Office minister, and he was prepared to back his campaign to | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
get Billy out. That was very rare. That was the first time that the | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
Foreign Office were about to campaign on disability. It is | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
astonishing that you have this much in 18 months. Did you ever wake up | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
one morning and think, I can be bothered? I said I would get you | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
out of prison and that is what I did. And the promised my mother. | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
And it promised a mother. Billy has come to a local church groups to | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
warn children about the dangers of drugs. A lot of people criticise me | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
for getting involved in Billy's case, he had broken the law and | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
went to prison. Billy broke the law and served his sentence. He served | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
100% of the sentence handed down to him by the court of Law that day. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
He served 20 years. But of course Billy being in my constituency, I | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
had a great deal of concern about the deterioration of his health and | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
that wasn't going to get any better in the prison and was very much | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
shortening his life span. It is not a case of if you are | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
going to be exposed to drugs, it is a case of when! And, you know your | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
peers and your friends are going to say don't be a wuss and it is the | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
:15:59. | :16:01. | ||
cool thing to do, you know and really it's not! This is my life, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
these people abuse you can beat you CYAN He helped a lot of people, his | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
story not to do it and make people realize what life is worth living | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
about. It has really, really opened my | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
eyes up about drugs and made me steer away from all like stuff like | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
:16:25. | :16:27. | ||
that, he did that to help him for a bit of money and look how it ended! | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
My friends always asks, how did a lap from whether they get involved | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
in a drugs syndicate in Asia? He did not have to be a criminal or a | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
tough guy, you just need to be a bit stupid. | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
After nearly 20 years in a foreign jail, adapting to life back in | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Britain has not always been plain sailing. Billy's partner, who he | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
met in the Phillipines is in the UK to help him readjust to a life of | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
freedom. Tell me about how you two first came to meet. | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
I was looking for someone to help me with paralegal work and I put | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
the feelers out looking for someone who needed some paralegal work and | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Maffy at that time was looking for some supplementary work and we were | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
put together and that was 9 years ago! | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
That's brilliant! Were you concerned about him when he was in | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
prison, his health and all that? It has been my greatest dream for | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
him to be able to taste freedom! It is fair to say that you two have | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
been through more than most couples. Oh, yeah! And it is just how long | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
have you been here, four weeks? Yeah, almost four weeks! | :17:29. | :17:38. | |
In nine years, I'm sorry! In nine years, we've had four weeks | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
:17:48. | :18:01. | ||
together, living like other people It will be a few years before we | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
can be together, but hopefully, but hopefully over here or in the | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Phillipines. Do you think about your future? | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
The lack of a future! No, at the moment I have a lot of, I have some | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
health problems which are getting better, but I can't work at the | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
moment. And you never know, maybe you will get some people that come | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
to say, "We know someone who has a problem with drugs, can you come | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
and talk to them?" I want them to see that if they do it, this is | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
what they are going to end up, you know, they are going to be 50, | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
living on somebody else's couch, no wife, no children or house and, you | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
know, you can be a pleasant and nicest bloke that you are, but | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
:18:47. | :19:00. | ||
Now, many of us rely on our computers and mobile phones, so | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
imagine trying to live without them. That is what some people are being | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
forced to do for health reasons, and as our correspondent has been | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
finding out, they will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid the | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
modern world. This is Green Bank, West Virginia. It is not difficult | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
to see why people would be attracted here. Just a few hours | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
drive from Washington DC, it offers the sort of peace and solitude many | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
city dwellers crave. But it is something else that has | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
attracted the latest settlers to arrive here, a group who you could | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
:19:44. | :19:46. | ||
describe as wi-fi refugees seeking There are a growing community of | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
people who say they are allergic to mobile phones and wi-fi signals, | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
sufferers of what is known as electro-magnetic sensitivity, ES | :19:51. | :20:01. | |
:20:01. | :20:07. | ||
In England I was so sick I could not exist, I was ill from morning | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
tonight. Most have moved from other parts of | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
the USA but Silvia Wilson's journey has been much longer, she has come | :20:13. | :20:22. | |
with her daughter more than 3,500 miles from Lincolnshire. In the Dee, | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
-- immediately, it is like this energy review, you feel very sick, | :20:29. | :20:37. | |
and I'm throw up a lot. You get headaches, you feel like you have a | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
lot of pressure in your head and burning sensations which are the | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
most uncomfortable. Hot needles coming in through your head, that | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
is very unpleasant. Very painful. This is reason why Green Bank has | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
become a sanctuary, it's part of the US national radio quiet zone, | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
around 13000 miles where all radio transmissions are banned or | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
severely limited$$NEWLINE This makes Green Bank one of the very | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
few places in the world where you can escape mobile phones and other | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
:21:11. | :21:14. | ||
electro-magnetic signals. This makes Greenbank one of the very few | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
places where you can escape mobile phones and other electromagnetic | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
signals. For Silvia it has become a refuge.$$NEWLINE This was Silvia | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
when I first met her seven years ago. She had lined her house in | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Horncastle with tin foil, she believed it would protect her and | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
her family from a mobile phone mast nearby. The power is very strong, | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
so we have had to shield this otherwise we will become physically | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
ill. This is in your daughter's bedroom as well, all over the | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
ceiling here. I had to look after my mum, she could not get out of | :21:50. | :21:58. | |
bed, she was so ill. I had to make her breakfast and get all of her | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
clothes ready. There came a point when Silvia felt | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
too ill to stay in the UK, the family home was sold and she looked | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
to start a new life with her youngest daughter forced to leave | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
:22:18. | :22:18. | ||
her older children and husband behind. My marriage broke down, a | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
lot of stress within the family, with my children, and I was just | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
unable to cope. It had a big emotional impact. It was too much. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
There's no clear diagnostic criteria for ES so it is impossible | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
to say how many people believe they are affected. Estimates vary from | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
:22:46. | :22:47. | ||
as low as just a few in every million to 5% of the population. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Scientists know that mobile phone and Y five signals interfere with | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
the operation of the radio telescope here, but to they also | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
adversely affect human health? That is a complicated and controversial | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
question. To find out what whether science | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
has anything to offer as an explanation for Silvia's illness I | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
need to leave Greenbank and head Nearly all of us now own a mobile | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
phone, in fact there are more phones than people in this country | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
and wi-fi technology is spreading into every corner of our homes. Any | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
:23:29. | :23:33. | ||
possible health effects have to be taken seriously. So what research | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
has there been? There have been more than 50 studies were | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
scientists have tried to replicate the symptoms suffered by Sylvia and | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
others. Some of the recent work has taken place here, at King's College | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
in London. It is similar to a mobile phone but | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
it produces something much stronger than the average mobile phone. It | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
is the upper threshold of what is allowed for a mobile phone. It is | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
mounted on a headset that participants will wear for around | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
50 minutes. 240 people have been tested in this way, have to believe | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
they are sensitive to mobile phone so and have to don't. Can I ask you | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
about electoral sensitivity as a condition? Does the scientific | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
community gives us any credence? The symptoms are very real in some | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
cases, and for a minority of people they can be disabling, so it exists | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
in terms of the experience that people report. When you bring | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
people into your lap and you expose them to eat general electromagnetic | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
field or a sham electromagnetic field, like a placebo or fake elect | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
a magnetic field people to get symptoms. It is just that those | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
centres are as likely to be caused by sham field. If sham fuels are | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
sufficient to cause the symptoms they must be something | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
psychological there. Other scientists have reached the | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
same conclusion as James Rubin. The World Health Organisation states | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
that there is currently no scientific basis to link ES with | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
short term exposure to electro- mangnetic fields. However, some | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
:25:15. | :25:18. | ||
health professionals like Dr Erica Mallery Blythe want more research. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
For all of us in this field the understanding that we have is still | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
extremely poor. Biological systems are not like chemicals in a test- | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
tube, everything is not reproducible be sacked as you would | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
hope for in a machine. Each individual response will be | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
different. These individual responses are | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
something Erica knows more about than most. She, too, experiences | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
symptoms of the S and tries to avoid mobile phone that electric | :25:47. | :25:56. | |
currents. This is a try field meter, it is called that because it | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
measures three field, electromagnetic and radial | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
motorways. In this instance sitting on the table it is on a wooden | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
surface with a substantial air gap between it and the electrical cable | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
running underneath. If I reach down and put my hand near it he can see | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
that there is a deflection now up to the high part of the spectrum. | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
That is because I am behaving as a conductor for the electrical field | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
around that table. This is the basis for one of the fees, that | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
perhaps some people are more of a conductor than others and if they | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
have greater conduct of organisms and they will attract are | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
electromagnetic fields. A Erykah now advises sufferers as | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
part of her role with the support could e s UK. She is planning her | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
own studies into the condition. is very disappointing to see | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
doctors misguidedly treating this as purely a psychological condition. | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
When, in fact, their knowledge is often very poor indeed in most | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
people's knowledge of this is very poor because we don't have even | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
diagnostic criteria for people with this condition. Is there any proof | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
that electromagnetic field don't cause symptoms? It is not possible | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
to prove a negative, we cannot prove to you that something doesn't | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
cause something else, the best evidence we have to date and it is | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
quite good evidence is that it doesn't. He would regret it into | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
your career in ten years' time? It will not be a health scare that | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
society ignored? If the evidence changes, I'll change my mind. | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
The back in West Virginia, life goes on as it has for centuries. | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
Rich in tradition, it offers a very different way of life to Sylvia, a | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
life apart from the modern world. And whatever the experts say, that | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
is what Sylvia believes she needs. We realise that material things | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
mean nothing when you don't have health, health is so important and | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
this is why we came here. How are you feeling now? I feel very good, | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
I can think, I don't feel sick, I feel OK. | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
No one really knows how many people there are like Sylvia, at the | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
moment it seems like medicine has very little to offer her and so | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
each must find their own way of dealing with the symptoms of this | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
illness, whatever its cause. And for Sylvia, that his neck leaving | :28:24. | :28:30. | |
Lincolnshire at her old life behind. Just before we go, you can follow | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
us on Twitter or fingers on Facebook. We're back next week with | :28:35. | :28:39. |