The newest fad malady: "hyper electromagnetic sensitivity"

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: many of them look bogus, but I haven't looked at nearly enough to make a judgment.

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Don't bother buying stock in Alcan.

H.

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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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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 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.

Ahh- o.k.--

H.

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