Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:3037 sci.med:5538 sci.research:403 misc.misc:2924 misc.consumers:5206 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!carcoar!andy From: andy@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.med,sci.research,misc.misc,misc.consumers Subject: Re: Electrical power line radiation health hazard Message-ID: <22100@labrea.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Jun 88 17:43:44 GMT References: <673@crcmar.crc.uucp> <2718@cadnetix.COM> <5930@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@labrea.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: andy@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) Distribution: na Organization: Stanford University Lines: 12 In article <5930@cup.portal.com> Patrick_A_Townson@cup.portal.com writes: >My god man, we are talking about human lives here! Is the right to use an >air conditioner in your home on a sultry summer night worth a human life? Patrick was being sarcastic, but it turns out that a lot of people do die due to heat. It would be fairly cheap to reduce the total by a lot, but that's not as sexy as medical research which doesn't save nearly as many people even though it costs more. Besides, most of the people that it would help are old, in addition to being poor, so who cares anyway. -andy