January 1988
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Biological effects of low intensity microwaves have been the subject of a great number of studies and many different reactions were reported ranging from molecular to animal level. The acceptance level is low, however, due to difficulties both in reproducing the effects by others and in demonstrating their real athermal nature. In some cases great efforts were put into repeating athermal experiments, without clear results. In these studies the interpretation of data assumes a statistical behaviour which possibly is not adequate to the biological system (Kaiser 1984). These problems will probably remain as long as the mechanisms of these subtle effects are unknown. It seems worth thinking of new concepts for experimental investigations in athermal bioelectromagnetics. To focus on fundamental mechanisms, experiments must be oriented strongly by theoretical concepts rather than by simply investigating, for instance, biological reactions induced by a fixed frequency.