Ruth wrote:
>I cannot speak to mustard gas or Bangladeshi floods, but there is
>certainly NOT a "strong correlation" btwn human cancers of any
>sort and power line proximity. Each human epidemiologic study
>that has been done since '79 with increasingly better exposure
>assessment methodology has come up with weaker and weaker
>associations, and none of the many laboratory studies of cells or
>whole animals supports a correlation btwn electric or magnetic
>fields and cancer. Please be careful interpreting your science from
>the popular press, especially if it involves human epidemiology.
>The science is far too complicated to get interpreted correctly in
>the popular press. If you'd like references etc for this particular
>topic, go to IEEE COMAR's website:
>http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~kfoster/comar.htm
>and scroll down to COMAR Reports.
Thanks for correcting me on this point. Though this doesn't detract from my
main point.
Steve
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