Reflections on Electro magnetism

OK, its been half an hour since I read and posted the story about cell phones. More worrying to me than the possibility of my getting a brain tumor or Alzheimer’s is the censorship aspect of the story.

Oh, I don’t want to get sick but the jury is still out on what the radiation will do.

I’m not aware that too many folks worried about radio waves when they started listening to radio in the early part of the 20th Century but some folks did worry about electrical outlets when their homes were wired up. When the REA began wiring up rural homes some folks objected much like some folks fought water fluoridation in the 1960’s. Now I’m worried about WiFi.

The National Geographic published a great chart (much better than this one) showing the range of EM radiations found in the universe. Our atmosphere keeps out a lot of the deadly ones, like gamma rays, which would kill most life. Other forms of radiation make it through and we’ve evolved to survive them or draw upon their energy to thrive. Other than the critters at deep sea vents most terrestrial animal life has to eat green vegetables or eat green vegetable eaters.

Its easy to become paranoid and I have no intention of becoming a Luddite for fear of the new. Thank goodness my grandchildren have and will continue to get vaccinations notwithstanding the current paranoia about these shots causing autism. And as far as I know no one is suppressing research that might draw a link between cause and effect that lead to these suspicions.

I can’t find my old lead liner darn it. I just checked to see if I could find one on the Internet and dredged up this article from 2001pooh poohing the radiation paranoia. Its that cabal of Defense industries making fun of the Chicken Little’s………But just maybe the sky is falling. Instead of ridicule let’s fund some serious research. Having a million kids get brain cancer is probably a lot worse than anything Osama bin Ladin’s groupies could do to us.

Are we putting lead liners in our new schools?

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