Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!sigma!bill@beaver.cs.washington.edu From: sigma!bill@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Bill Swan) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Miscarriages and VDTs Message-ID: <11256@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 21 Jun 88 19:14:59 GMT References: <11169@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Seattle Piping Society Lines: 34 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu In article <11169@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bst@rutgers.edu writes: >I think this is all a bunch of poppy-cock. > >I worked in front of a screen the entire time I was pregnant with >my son, and he turned out to be beautiful, healty, and 9 lb. 1 oz. > >However, with both of my girsl, i worked mostly staff work during the >pregnancies. Both were around 6 lb. 13 oz., and both were difficult >deliveries. > >I have studied ergonomics for a number of years, and have reviewed >this debate on a number of occassions. My personal opinion is that >there is no real basis for this argument. > >Brenda > >[The researchers did emphasize that they saw a statistical, not a >causal, correlation. TR] Normal children were born at Love Canal, too, however... A recent article (somewhere) hypothesises that the blame is due the stress related to work situations where the VDT is featured. As far as I recall the article they haven't completed the statistical correlations to the causal. [That article was in the New York _Times_--parts of it are in the second csw posting. The researchers, according to the article, weren't intending to study VDTs, but something else. They were, therefore, not really prepared to analyse the data fully. Studies have more recently begun which are supposed to look at causal relationships. TR]