RE: Absence of Proof... (car seats=NPP reactors?)

["Lavera, Ron" <Ron.Lavera@nypa.gov>]

This is probably one of the same people that we must worry about running us
off the road because they are busy talking on their cell phone while driving
in their low emissions vehicle.

....   Mine and mine alone  ...

Ron LaVera
Lavera.r@nypa.gov

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Björn Cedervall [mailto:bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com]
		Sent:	Monday, April 19, 1999 11:40 AM
		To:	Multiple recipients of list
		Subject:	Re: Absence of Proof... (car seats=NPP
reactors?)

		>     Let us start with the simple things: Except for the
theorems of
		>mathematics, SCIENCE HAS NEVER PROVEN ANYTHING!

		We had a TV program in Sweden yesterday (and earlier last
week) about 
		the "radiation in cars". A noisy instrument detected
magnetic fields 
		at levels below 200 nanotesla. A guy with glasses (15 extra
perceived 
		IQ points according to a psychology investigation presented
in Sci. 
		American decades ago) said that 140 nanotesla was much
compared to 
		"norm values" (vague) of 25 nanotesla. He further said about
one car: 
		There isn't much you can do - you must change car. The talk
included 
		discussions of Alzheimer's disease, cancer and other
diseases. A 
		woman said that "prostate cancer was increasing" (no ref. to
any 
		particular population, age-group, year etc). A number of
classical 
		types of weird statements and suggestions were made. The
scientist 
		interviewed said that the fields are weak but you can see
tha car as 
		a microwave oven on wheels.

		The program leader said that you should not buy a car unless
proven 
		undangerous. ... And the "car branch has long neglected the
warning 
		signals regarding magnetic fields that in a longer
perspective may 
		result in deadly diseases." And then approximately:
"Research is 
		ongoing to investigate the relationship between these
electrically 
		heated car seats and cancer" (I can imagine what "research"
means 
		here).

		They also said that "researcher(s)" that the TV folks had
been in 
		touch with said that sitting on a electrical blanket in a
car was 
		like sitting on a nuclear power plant. (the word
"researcher" in 
		Swedish is the same in singular and plural - if you
formulate this 
		smart enough you don't know if it is one or several people
referred 
		too - it made the impression of meaning several but I bet (a
pop 
		soda) that it was only one researcher - namely the one they 
		interviewed in the program and who made the statements about

		Alzheimer's etc. He was involved in the idea that these
various 
		diseases had not been excluded as caused by "EMF". The
mobile phones 
		were also involved in the discussion (mobile phones are
essentially 
		in everyone's pocket now in Sweden).

		For anyone reading Swedish, you can see much of the
reporting (there 
		are pictures also BTW) at
		http://www.svt.se/falun/trafikmagasinet/indexe4.htm

		The last sentences say: "And we shall not buy cars from
which we 
		cannot exclude harmful effects of electricity. Demand to get
your car 
		"measured" at your car dealer." I turned off the TV after
the 10 
		minutes of "exposure" but according to a friend of mine,
there had 
		also been a suggestion to the TV watchers to report prostate
cases 
		that might relate to their story. My ten minutes of VCR
recording 
		will be valuable for future semantic analysis with
students...

		:-(

		bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com

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