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- From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
- Subject: Re: Can anyone tell me about this TV show?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.024503.16801@spdcc.com>
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- References: <69740@cup.portal.com> <69802@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov19.184304.20312@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:45:03 GMT
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- mudge@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (MUDGE BRIAN WAYNE) writes:
-
- > THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (no, i'm not shouting, that's the way they
- >print it) Nov-13, 1992. I don't remember which section, but you can
- >bet it wasn't "finance".
- > Apparently, some researchers think that e-mag waves do something funny
- >to the pineal gland, causing a cancer link.
- > Unfortunately, the study was not a causality one. That is, they first
- >started with X number of cancer patients, and then found out how many
- >of them used electric razors. Naturally, the electric razor use could
- >be merely coincidental.
-
- Yup - it's psuedo-science. There's lots of it going around
- these days.
-
- I leave it up to the reader to look for it - I won't be baited
- into giving a list ;-)
-
- I'll bet most of those people surveyed also used toilet paper...
- which of course then makes it carcinogenic... (if that sounds ridiculous
- you should read some of the REAL reports!)
-
- BBC
-