“Game-Changing” Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Cancer

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46. About overhead power lines

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Disclaimer: I'm not taking sides. I am not expressing support for Paul Brodeur's position by linking to his book. I do so in the interest of getting the information out to you.

I read the first book about this, "Currents of Death," by Martin Paul Brodeur, when it came out.

Currents of Death: The Great Power Line Cover-Up

Granger Morgan, an engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon, did some work on this that did not support the book's conclusions, IIRC.

Powerline Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields: A Pilot Study of Risk Perception

M. Granter Morgan, Paul Slovic, Indira Nair, Dan Geisler, Donald MacGregor, Baruch Fischhoff, David Lincoln, and Keith Florig

Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer

What have studies shown about possible associations between non-ionizing EMFs and cancer in children?

Numerous epidemiologic studies and comprehensive reviews of the scientific literature have evaluated possible associations between exposure to non-ionizing EMFs and risk of cancer in children. (Magnetic fields are the component of non-ionizing EMFs that are usually studied in relation to their possible health effects.) Most of the research has focused on leukemia and brain tumors, the two most common cancers in children. Studies have examined associations of these cancers with living near power lines, with magnetic fields in the home, and with exposure of parents to high levels of magnetic fields in the workplace. No consistent evidence for an association between any source of non-ionizing EMF and cancer has been found.

Exposure from power lines. Although a study in 1979 pointed to a possible association between living near electric power lines and childhood leukemia, more recent studies have had mixed findings. Most of these studies did not find an association or found one only for those children who lived in homes with very high levels of magnetic fields, which are present in few residences.

ETA: Amazingly, I have a copy of Paul Brodeur's book on my desk right now. I had it in my file cabinet. Why, I do not know. It was published in 1989. I thought it was several years older than that. Part of the material originally appeared in The New Yorker, so that must be where I first read it.