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 VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. To join or leave the list, send a message to [log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type "subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations. VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html