Is Living Hear High-Power Electricity Lines Bad For Health?
In modern times, it seems a little strange to read claims in Europe and in U.S. cities like San Francisco that cell phone radiation is harmful to humans - but their reasoning is based on work in the 1970s which found an epidemiological association between increased risk of childhood leukemia and living near overhead power lines. Like most epidemiology claims that find two curves going the same way and garner media attention, some skepticism is warranted, and later studies were unable to find the same connection, but the perception has held. Regardless, groups like the International Agency for Research on Cancer have categorized low frequency magnetic fields as "possibly carcinogenic" even though a mechanism for this association has never been found. read more
