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Article 788 of sci.electronics:
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Subject: Re: Re:High Tension Wire Hazards
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In article <113351.25560@timbuk.cray.com> David Adams writes:
]We can't help but look at the conclusions with a jaundiced eye.

Agreed. I am quite suspicous of the epidemiological studies that I have
read about.
]a forseeable danger.  Furthermore, the evidence in the case of smoking, I 
]beleive, is much stronger than for magnetic fields.  Has any one preformed 
]randomized experiments with magnetic radiation with animal subjects, at doses 
]that are comparable to those received by humans?  Again it may be a jump to 

Yes, this in fact has been done. Some interesting results were obtained,
but I don't know if excess cancers was among them.

]make inferences from rabbits, mice, and mink, to humans, but the significance 
]levels can at least be established.  If we could see studies of this nature, 
]that corroborate those studies which have been done, we might be on a *little*
]firmer ground. 

Like I say - there are SOME animal studies. There are also tissue studies.
These studies are interesting because:
  -They are easily repeatable
  -They are just as hard to explain as the epidemiological results - the
   same criticisms (weak forces involved) apply.
]
]None of what I say above means that I do not believe that hazards from
]electromagnetic radiation exist.  Perhaps some of these other studies
]are on firmer ground?  I am not familiar with them.  To date, I do not
]believe that any of the studies I have heard of *should* affect property
]values. 

Property values are affected by all sorts of silly stuff. Whether they
"should" be or not is another matter :-(