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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
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Subject: Re: EMF Radiation Kills !!!
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Date: 2 Jul 90 15:12:44 GMT
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amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

|1. Most tv's have a shield (especially older ones) across the face that helps
|to block stray & non desired electrons.  Monitors, generally don't have any
|screen or pixel shield.

You're talking about a shadow mask, and it is not to block stray electrons,
it's to guide the 3 color guns to the correct color phosphors. Monitors do have
these also.

|2. Tv's use a much lower scan rate & generate lower energy in that range.

er, this is nonsense. While it is true tv's generate lower scan rates, it is
just a frequency change not 'lower energy'.

|3. It is very rare that users sit in front the tv screen 18 to 30 inches away.

This is a good point.
|4. Tv's in this country are tested, rated, and done my major mfg with liability
|    insurance.  Many/most computer monitors are not tested or rated, if done,
|    a lower class rating is o.k., as long as the mfg classifies it as a not
|    a consumer item. Further, they are fly by nighters, how can anyone sue a
|   fly by night or samnung without offices in the us, etc...

You're nuts! Monitors are made to much more exacting standards than TV's are.
They have to be, they have much sharper images, and need much tighter controls
on the guns, smaller phosphors and shadow masks, etc. They must be FCC approved.


|5. It might be better to believe that the emissions cause long term quality of
|   life problems. And/or possibly MAY cause genetic damages that may not be
|   observable for several generations.  By then, who knows what may be blamed
|   wrongly.

This paragraph doesn't parse at all. In other words: "HUH???"

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