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From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
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Subject: Re: Health hazard from screens
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.224758.28652@convex.com>
Date: 21 Jan 91 22:47:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jan21.185952.22248@cs.ucla.edu> yoshio@makaha.cs.ucla.edu (Yoshio Turner) writes:
>In article <91016.100008JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes) writes:
>>The question of health hazards arising from VLF and ELF emissions
>>from color monitors is not trivial; epidemiological evidence gives
>>strong support to the contention that there is a relationship between
>>such emissions and, for example, elevated rates of miscarriage.
>
>And cancer.  See the recent EPA draft report, "Evaluation of the
>Potential Carcinogenicity of Electromagnetic Fields..."
>the EPA draft report concludes that "60-hertz magnetic fields are a
>possible, though not proven, cause of cancer in humans and that more
>research is necessary".

Excuse me, but saying that EM fields are a "possible, though not proved
cause of cancer" and "more research is necessary" is not exactly the same
as saying there is "strong support" for a relationship between EM and
cancer.