Swimming In A Deadly Sea:
Awash In Radiation
Part Three
By Kathleen Deoul
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Kathleen Deoul: Well, to me it's just common sense.
Copulos: Well actually, Kathleen, that's what the precautionary
principle really is. It just says don't take risks you don't have to, or if you
must, take precautions to minimize the risk. But there's something else that
should enter into your decision process.
Kathleen Deoul: What is that?
Copulos: The assumptions used in the study. For example, there have
been many studies that looked at the connection between electromagnetic fields
caused by high-voltage power lines and various health effects. Except for one
form of childhood leukemia, most concluded that the evidence was too weak to
support a conclusion. That is important because while they didn't say such
fields didn't cause cancer or other health effects, they also failed to conclude
that there were no health effects. But all of these studies looked at, or
assumed a relatively low level of exposure.
In a separate group of studies that looked at occupational exposure, in other
words exposures of people who were in close proximity to strong electromagnetic
fields on a regular basis, the findings were quite different. In four out of
five studies an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease was found as well as an
increased risk for Lymphocytic Leukemia.
But these were not the only affects identified. Electromagnetic fields have
also been found to cause changes in heart rhythms and rates, decreased sleep and
sleep efficiency and possibly a link to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, (ALS),
commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease.
Kathleen Deoul: That's a pretty scary list, but you said that these
studies were of occupational exposures. That means they involved people who were
around these electromagnetic fields every day and therefore had much higher
levels of exposure than someone who was not in one of those professions. How do
these studies relate to other people?
Copulos: I'm glad you asked that Kathleen. These studies were done
over the course of three decades, and obviously changed over that period. But
one thing remains constant among them: health effects are related to the level
of exposure, both in terms of strength and duration. I think it just makes sense
that longer exposures to higher doses of radiation would be more likely to have
an effect than shorter exposures to lower levels.
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