On the point the we are "snowflakes" ("gentle snowflakes" according
to Lewis Black) was the NPR piece on med students who learn
the every-body is different. E.g., working on a normal cadaver and
seeing the the left elbow joint looked like a textbook drawing (something
rare in and of itself) and then upon dissecting the right elbow, finding it was
unrecognizable to them.Alvin Auerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know if it's been proved or disproved, but it's within the realm of possibility. First of all, while all human beings are "sort of" alike, in fact, we are each a bit different from the other. Recall that when drug companies test a new drug and find that in, say, 1000 people tested, there are no severe side effects; when it is put on the market and 10,000 or 100,000 people or more are using it, often very severe side effects are discovered. Now about the effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation: Recall that your microwave oven is tuned to the resonant frequency of water molecules, and those molecules readily absorb that energy. It is conceivable that other molecules in the body are absorbing energy all of the time, but the "Q" or resonant gain of the molecules are low. Suppose that one in 500,000 individuals have a variant of some molecule that happens to have a very high Q at some radio frequency. A personal story: I was temporarily doing work in the very high field strength close to a radar. So high that when a ball point pen was dragged and skipped along a metal surface, it would draw very palpable arcs. A person who worked in that field many times, asked me, "Do you hear it?" I said, "Hear what?" He said, "Well, some people hear it and some don't." I shrugged my shoulders and went about my work. A few minutes later, I jumped up and said, "I hear it, I hear it!" Somewhere in my head, I was detecting the RF, and I heard the rep rate of the radar. "Dzzit, Dzzit, ..." "Well, some people hear it and some don't." Not everyone was affected, but I sure was! >Found this linked from digg. Tells the story of a woman claiming to be >completely unable to take electronic devices...she says wifi networks are >the worst. She's been home bound for 2 years...is it me or is this easily >proved/disproved? Seems like she likes the attention too much. > >mike > >http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=450995&in_page_id=1879 > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
