Re: NIH: Electric fields pose cancer risk

["John Moulder" <jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu>]

> Glenn: Thanks for your note. This was out in local Swedish media 
> last Tuesday ("ELECTRICITY FIELDS CAN CAUSE CANCER" - a Swedish 
> scientist with interest in molecular biology was involved). 
>  
> This is contrasting a lot of other information (the issue is 
> actually about _magnetic_ fields). 

Read the actual press release (separare long post).  All the working group 
really says is that they cannot prove that a link is impossible, thus they 
must conclude that a link is "possible".

The US National Academy of Science report did not claim that a link between 
cancer and power-frequency fields was impossible either, only that there was 
"no conclusive and consistent evidence" of cancer causation.  

The press has really screwed this one up (the quoted headline is typical).


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