WSSC Hired A Well Known Longtime Industry Consultant to Evaluate the Health Effects of Smartmeters.
Professor Leeka Kheifets was hired by the WSSC to investigate the health effects pf smart meters. Here is her report. She not only is paid by companies to testify in their defense, but she also has been a longtime consultant for Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
What vetting for conflict of interest was done?
Did WSSC ask if she was on retainer for industry or EPRI?
We want answers.
The study Race/ethnicity and the risk childhood leukemia: a case-control study in California states, “This project was supported by a research contract from the Electric Power Research Institute to UCLA”
So the electric companies give UCLA money for Dr. Kheifits to do studies?
Studies about health effects from the very industry funding the study?
Yes. It is true.
“Of all the people I know, Leeka Kheifets has done more to subvert EMF research than anyone,” says American epidemiologist Samuel Milham, the first scientist to discover an increased risk of leukemia among electrical workers overexposed to EMFs. Read the news article this comes from here .
Here are two more examples of research studies she did funded by industry. Note: There are MANY she did funded by industry. plus companies hire her to present "expert" testimony to elected officials.
- The study Magnetic fields exposure from high-voltage power lines and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in two Italian populations states, “received funding from EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) for other research activity and not for the present study. All the remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.”
- Residential magnetic fields exposure and childhood leukemia: a population-based case–control study in California funded by EPRI
“PG&E (electric company) flew Leeka Kheifets, a University of California Los Angeles professor and epidemiology authority, to the event to address health concerns.”
- Leeka Kheifets, lately of UCLA, but also connected to the utility industry’s Electric Power Research Institute and the World Health Organization conflict-of-interest filled EMF Project, has frequently appeared for PG&E, APS, and other utility companies to vouch for Smart Meter and wireless safety. What does an industry “expert” like Leeka Kheifets get paid for her testimony?
- APS retained Dr. Kheifets to present on behalf of the Company at the Commission’s September 8, 2011 workshop regarding radio frequency concerns for a total remuneration of $14,681.14.
Dr. Kheifets was put in charge of the "UCSD Breast Cancer Cluster" investigation back in 2009 and they did nothing.
Her Long time relationship with EPRI--
According to her UCLA Web page. Dr Kheifets is most familiar with research on effects of EMFs on human health. “Prior to her professorship at UCLA, she was Head of the Radiation Studies Program at the World Health Organization and was a Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute, where she directed a multi-disciplinary electric and magnetic fields (EMF) research program." Read October 2007 EPRI update : Dr. Leeka Kheifets, now an EPRI research consultant, is a member of the committee.
Decades ago the electric utility industry paid Leeka Kheifets $50,000 for a literature review. Microwave ran a story on that here.
She was a member of the IEEE 2005 Subcommittee member, a long-term employee and on-going consultant for the Electric Power Institute (EPRI) and for various electrical utility corporations.
EPRI is an independent nonprofit scientific organization funded by the electric power industry in the United States. Kheifets stated that she still receives research support from EPRI, but notes that EPRI is not a commercial entity.
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