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- From: kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio)
- Subject: Re: Re: Cellular telephones and brain tumors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.181011.9521@netcom.com>
- Organization: True Love, and Home-Grown Tomatoes
- References: <4126@hpwala.wal.hp.com> <1993Jan28.012310.24738@netcom.com> <1993Jan28.042423.14397@pmafire.inel.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:10:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.042423.14397@pmafire.inel.gov>
- russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown) writes:
-
- >Before everyone gets too excited about an anecdotal (anecdotal evidence
- >ranks even lower than case-control analysis!) case of brain cancer,
-
- >Absent such knowledge, attribution of a case of brain cancer to a
- >particular "cause" doesn't make much sense. Unfortunately, we have
- >difficulty in accepting the fact that bad things happen for no good (or,
- >more precisely, known) reason.
-
- Well, would you insist on a double-blind study to determine whether
- your ass was on fire?
-
- Anecdotal evidence is valid in that it may provide impetus to look at
- the underlying mechanisms, if any. There are known health risks
- related to non-ionizing radiation.
-
- If we accept that, at some level, such EMR is harmful, and if we
- acknowledge the nature of emissivity -- that power falls off with the
- cube of distance -- then a low-power source that is sufficiently close
- *may* cause problems.
-
- In any case, it merits further study. There are no good studies on
- this. The manufacturers of such devices claim that they are entirely
- safe, which is entirely irresponsible. It would be equally
- irresponsible to be a Jeremy Rifkin-type alarmist.
-
- You responded to my terse response in which I refuted the analogy of
- hand-held cellular telephones to living under TV transmitters. I
- claim that that refutation stands.
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