Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #865805 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Controversy over the potential hazards of electromagnetism from neighborhood power lines has moved from the lab to the courts, as school districts and community groups mount protests or lawsuits against utility companies. New Yorker staff writer Brodeur convincingly argues that evidence exists that exposure to such radiation may cause cancer and other illnesses. Low-level microwave radiation poses another danger, he compellingly shows, as Cape Cod, Mass., residents discovered when an Air Force radar station built in the vicinity apparently led to abnormally high levels of cancer. Brodeur details and disputes scientific studies that claim such radiation is safe. He implicitly charges that a cover-up of the dangers has been engineered by industry, government, regulatory agencies and academia. He also reviews studies suggesting that computer video display terminals (VDTs) may induce cataracts, birth defects and miscarriages, and briefly assesses the potential hazards from electric blankets and electrically heated waterbeds. First serial to the New Yorker.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

He has no hidden agenda
This man helped expose the asbestos problem in the late 60's. I'm way more inclined to believe the things he has to say as opposed to some government agency who's members sit on the boards of companies who stand to lose profits if something were done about this problem. Talk about a conflict of interest. Corporations run the world. They own the politicians. Learn some basic science and learn to form your own opinions rather than be swayed by articles in magazines that your loving government decides to spread it's propaganda in.

Currents of Death
Very interesting information on electromagnetic pollution...I wonder why so my schools are built next to large power supplies?

An Unfortuntate Source of Much Misinformation and Fear
On July 3, 1997, the National Cancer Institute released the results of a massive four-year study of power lines and cancer. These results appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study itself was based on the most rigorous methods available for the study of cancer. This study conclusively and unambiguously found no health effects associated with electromagnetic fields. Sometimes, a little knowledge is a bad thing. Brodeur has furthered the waste of countless tax dollars, and in the process, likely caused the death of countless sufferers of cancer.