Re: Power lines X-rays Health???

["Randy Ross" <RNROSS@BCSC02.GOV.BC.CA>]

rnross@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
It may be a well written article but it is definitely NOT an"excellent summar
y of the epidemiological evidence".  The author did not present a balanced
  description of the studies which anyone may see for themselves simply by
reading the original scientific articles as our department does.  When
research to date is taken as a whole the evidence does not support the
assumption that fields surrounding powerlines, appliances , etc. pose a risk
to human health.
Ken  what is a small but not statistically significant increase in risk when
no one has been able to demonstrate a risk to begin with??Maybe you mean
a small not statistically significant risk - is that another way of saying
science can't find the risk that we "know" is there??  If so how do we know?

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not represent BC Systems Corp.
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There is a good article in the Dec 94 issure of IEEE Spectrum. It includes
an excellent summary of hte epidemiological evidence for and against
the connection between power lines and cancer. The overall impression is
that there may be a small but still-not-statistically-significant
increase in risk.

Ken

Interim RSO
West Virginia Univ. Hospitals