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AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful?
Klar writes "Wired News reports that: 'Korean scientists have found that regions near AM radio-broadcasting towers had 70 percent more leukemia deaths than those without.' The article continues: 'The study, to be published in an upcoming issue of the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, also found that cancer deaths were 29 percent higher near such transmitters.' While 'their study did not prove a direct link between cancer and the transmitters', the FDA and the World Health Organization are urging more studies, especially of radio waves from cell phones."
Although I can't decide if it's a liberal conspiracy against Rush Limbaugh, a government conspiracy against Art Bell, or a gay conspiracy against Dr. Laura. They want them off the air whoever they are!
At my job we refer to our two way pagers as 'birth control.' We may have been right all along...
We liked pop, we liked soul, we liked rock, but we never liked disco
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Add the fact that I live under a radio tower to the fact that I smoke, drink way more than I should, always have a cellphone and bluetooth headset near me, and work in a nuclear power plant, and I figure I'm doing pretty good!
Sean Hannity causes illness and disease in any band, or medium.
If you think
Every one, put on your tin foil hats!
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
Rush Limbaugh is broadcast on AM!
(And to balance things out, so is Al Frankin IIRC, but I wouldn't compare the two)
due to living in the path of a radio tower. Whether you liked his work or not, we can all appreciate that inhaling huge quantities of blow had nothing to do with it as this latest research indicates.
Oh yeah... and Elvis is dead too. Had nothing to do with peanut butter & bananna sandwiches or drugs... nope... Graceland was just down the hill from a big 'ol King sized radio tower.
Did I mention "King sized"? Since his name came up, Stephen King is still very much alive. But Catherine Zeta Jones and that "Can you hear me now?" guy are looking pretty mortal at this point.
--Rob
Do not taunt the XM.
it's making you go blind.
Frylock: "It's emitting radition."
Shake: "Yeah, but like, you know, the good kind, right? Like how they find tumors and gave Spider-Man his powers and stuff."
Frylock: "No Shake. The bad kind. The other kind. The kidney losing kind."
and that tinfoil stops RF waves.
To summarize,
Higher density of RF waves at night
Tinfoil blocks RF waves
Putting these two together, we can conclude that wrapping your body in tinfoil when you sleep at night will reduce your risk of developing RF related complications by >50%:
So, they developed this hobby of knocking down AM towers.
To fight this evil, the government release the Orcs from their Maximum Security prisons and got them to guard the towers with their life.
But, the Goblins had one more trick up their sleeves - Magical Underwear.
Now, this brand of undies granted them super-goblins strength - capable of pounding Orc flesh into dust!
The Orcs created this huuuge scene. They're such pussies sometime, y'know?
No, no this is silly. No, the whole premise is silly and it's very badly written. So I'm stopping it.
You can't do that!
I've done it. The post is over.
It's only 'cos you couldn't think of a punch line.
Not true, not true!
the video star.
Unix, an obscure operating system developed by bored researchers in an attempt to get a better game playing experience.
I've long felt that right-wing talk radio was harmful. It's nice to have scientific proof.
Yea, but you don't go pressing 50 000 watt transmitters against your head every day.
Sorry
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
Additionally, the areas near towers are generally higher density and more urban, more polluted, have less green space for exercise, and contain more Macdonalds'. The population is educated to a lesser extent and are less health aware (they don't take as good care of themselves). They are more likely to smoke, eat fattening/unhealthy foods and visit the doctor less often.
Never mind all that, it *must* be the AM radio. That being said we should look into this but without jumping to any conclusions.
Now THAT's apparently a horror story!
shows that if you are located in a region where a study be being conducted you are 70% more likely to die.
Being next to other Humans are dangerious to your health!