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This was on one of the morning network TV shows presented as "news."

Some woman was on the tube with a gossamer drape of some clingy fabric
and a hat that looked like something a bee keeper would wear. The
story is that she is hyper sensitive to electromagnetic radiation and
suffers an allergic reaction when outside and unprotected.

They showed her aluminum foil lined bedroom and some "doctor" (they
didn't give his field or credentials, but made it sound like he's an
MD) said he's seen the number of cases quadruple in the last two
years.

I figure this almost has to be bogus . . . but . . .

I did read about some doctor proving with some convincing evidence
that fewer T cells are produced around strong low frequency EM
transformers and sub stations and might account for the
epidemiological studies that have linked nervous system cancers and
leukemia to people that work around such stuff. His research seemed
on the up and up along with some university sponsored research that
was supposed to debunk the idea that you can get cancer from power
lines.

At least with T cells - you can count them, and they are known to
protect against cancer - so I'm thinking that may be valid -
unfortunately his funding was cut before he could eliminate some of
the other variables that may have crept into his study.

So - don't throw away all of your aluminum hats just yet?

Lot of hits on: <hyper "electromagnetic sensitivity"> many of them
look bogus, but I haven't looked at nearly enough to make a judgment.
 
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Howard Eisenhauer

This was on one of the morning network TV shows presented as "news."

Some woman was on the tube with a gossamer drape of some clingy fabric
and a hat that looked like something a bee keeper would wear. The
story is that she is hyper sensitive to electromagnetic radiation and
suffers an allergic reaction when outside and unprotected.

They showed her aluminum foil lined bedroom and some "doctor" (they
didn't give his field or credentials, but made it sound like he's an
MD) said he's seen the number of cases quadruple in the last two
years.

I figure this almost has to be bogus . . . but . . .

I did read about some doctor proving with some convincing evidence
that fewer T cells are produced around strong low frequency EM
transformers and sub stations and might account for the
epidemiological studies that have linked nervous system cancers and
leukemia to people that work around such stuff. His research seemed
on the up and up along with some university sponsored research that
was supposed to debunk the idea that you can get cancer from power
lines.

At least with T cells - you can count them, and they are known to
protect against cancer - so I'm thinking that may be valid -
unfortunately his funding was cut before he could eliminate some of
the other variables that may have crept into his study.

So - don't throw away all of your aluminum hats just yet?

Lot of hits on: <hyper "electromagnetic sensitivity"> many of them
look bogus, but I haven't looked at nearly enough to make a judgment.

The Straight Poop-


http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/cell-phone-health-FAQ/toc.html

http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/toc.html

http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/static-fields-cancer-FAQ/toc.html


My take-

Don't bother buying stock in Alcan.

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:22:41 GMT, Howard Eisenhauer


Yeah, OK, but don't quote all your finds from a single school.

I'm not about to go out on a limb here - but the "Medical College of
Wisconsin" does seem to have too much bias towards "feel good, feel
safe" and "you are too dumb to know what to believe, so believe us."

This won't pass muster - these people have an agenda - getting more
federal grants to tell the populace not to worry.
 
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Howard Eisenhauer

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:22:41 GMT, Howard Eisenhauer


Yeah, OK, but don't quote all your finds from a single school.
Well I'm under the impression that these studies arn't from the MCoW,
this is simply a list of studies done by other people & critiques of
the results.
I'm not about to go out on a limb here - but the "Medical College of
Wisconsin" does seem to have too much bias towards "feel good, feel
safe" and "you are too dumb to know what to believe, so believe us."

I really don't think the site is biased one way or the other, if the
overall impression is that there doesn't seem to be a link between EM
fields & health the reason is that virtually none of the studies
showing links to ill effects have been able to be duplicated. For the
most part even the ones that do seem to show a vanishingly small
increase in illnesses over what would normally be expected.

Apart from there being no known mechanisum, or even suspected
mechanisum, for EM to do other than tissue heating I have to think
that if there was a cause/effect between EM & health, with all these
studies there would have been be a verifiable "smoking gun" show up
clearly demonstrating the problem.

This won't pass muster - these people have an agenda - getting more
federal grants to tell the populace not to worry.

Ahh- o.k.--

H.
 
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