"Good information on possible reasons
    for the fact that childhood cancers are
    well known to be statistically significantly
    higher along power line routes."


This could be just another case of so-much "Looking for answers
in all the wrong places."

For instance, what if the incidences of cancer are *not* due to
EM fields but rather due to the materials the wooden power poles are
impregnated with to prevent rot, chemical and compounds used to keep
the growth of weeds and underbrush under control in the right-of-way
(such as used oils used to suppress dust growth of weeds containing God
only knows kind of industrial PCBs and such) and *the associated
behavior* of those specific children who live near those rights-of-way.

I vividly remember vividly running snow-mobiles and taking hikes along
the rights-of-way along power-lines as a kid in Michigan ...

A good 'test case' would involve a non-powered "line segment" for
the control in an experiment to determine the *true* cause.

As to "good information et al", the reviews on this subject I've
read are still pretty inconclusive - along the lines of proving
that Big-Foot is alive ...

Jim








----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@PARADISE.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 1:49 AM
Subject: [EE]: Power Lines & Cancer FAQ.


> Superb FAQ on this subject.
> Maintained by Dr John Moulder, a Professor of Radiation Oncology at the
> Medical College of Wisconsin.
>
>         http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/powerlines-cancer-FAQ/toc.html#21B
>
> Very well cross indexed.
> Tries desperately hard (if not totally successfully) to be balanced and
> impartial in approach - much more so than most.
>
> Good coverage of mechanisms and potential confounding factors.
>
> Good information on possible reasons for the fact that childhood cancers
are
> well known to be statistically significantly higher along power line
routes.
>
> ___________________________
>
> Power Lines and Cancer FAQs
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----
> Summary: Questions and answers on the connection between power lines,
> electrical occupations and cancer; includes discussion of the biophysics
of
> interactions, summaries of the laboratory and human studies, information
on
> standards, and a bibliography.
> Last-modified: 10-May-2002
> Version: 7.3.8
> Author:jmoulder@mcw.edu
>

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