Here, here!  Well said.


On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Tom Fowle wrote:

> The article on "computers hurting you"is a fine example of junk science.
> the author called all the wrong people, first he should have
> called trained professionals who might have actually been able to
> find out what was "REALLY" wrong..  First, an ophthalmologist, or perhaps an
> optometrist.   A chiropractor has no training in internal
> medecine or ophthalmology and is therefore not trained to judge
> anything so subtle as the possible effects of magnetic or
> electrical fields on the body.
>
> All such effects are under the control of the "inverse square"
> law, which states that the power induced by a magnetic or
> electric field is inversely proportional to the distance from the
> field generator to the effected body. if you are 2 inches away,
> you get the square root of the energy at one inch. This puts the
> lie to almost all such effects at distances of 1 or 2 feet.
>
> most important is our excessive reliance on anecdotal evidence.
> I feel better so it must work. Is bunk, bunk, bunk.
> No one understands the power of the mind, it is called the
> placebo effect and makes observations made by the person taking
> almost anything totally meaningless.
>
> so, although there may be ways computers can hurt you, like
> dropping one on your foot, buying a cheap mail order machine
> hoping it will work with your specialized access hardware, or
> having to use lousy software pushed down our throats by con
> artists, electromagnetic fields have not been proven to cause any
> measurable harm, in fact all scientifically done, controlled
> studies in the legitimate pier reviewed literature show they are
> harmless..
>
> Sorry I have to go off about junk science, if we don't learn how to
> spot it, it WILL KILL US much deader than the things the idiots tell us to worry
> about.
>
> Tom Fowle
>
>
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