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From: post@hpfcso.HP.COM (Dave Post)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: EMF Radiation Kills !!!
Message-ID: <7480007@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 90 04:08:41 GMT
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Siegman wonders:
 >Please, would sometime tell me why, in all the discussion over
 >Brodeur's claims of damage caused by ELF radiation from VDTs, there
 >seems to be no mention at all of ordinary TV?

Perhaps because it is endemic to our culture.  Nobody thought to think about
it.

 >After all, television sets and VDTs are essentially similar devices,
 >with overlapping technical specifications; TV has been omnipresent for
 >decades; children are reported to watch TV for, what, 20+ hours/week
 >on average; people sit with TV sets on their dinner tables night after
 >night.

 >Isn't ordinary television a massive, world-wide, decades-long
 >experimental test, totally disproving Brodeur's claims?

No, actually, it does not.  40 years ago, the major behavior problems in
public schools were: talking, pushing in line, running in halls, and chewing
gum.

Now it is vandalism, drugs, assaults and rapes.

No.  I'm just kidding.  But I WAS tempted to leave it look serious.  :-)

David Post  davep@hpfcpp.fc.hp.com  hplabs!hpfcla!post