Authors: Paul Brodeur
ISBN-13: 9780743213080, ISBN-10: 0743213084
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: October 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Brodeur's discoveries about the electromagnetic radiation permeating our high-tech society in this eye-opening medical detective story reveals a public health hazard so ...
Controversy over the potential hazards of electromagnetism from neighborhood power lines has moved from the lab to the courts, as school districts and community groups mount protests or lawsuits against utility companies. New Yorker staff writer Brodeur convincingly argues that evidence exists that exposure to such radiation may cause cancer and other illnesses. Low-level microwave radiation poses another danger, he compellingly shows, as Cape Cod, Mass., residents discovered when an Air Force radar station built in the vicinity apparently led to abnormally high levels of cancer. Brodeur details and disputes scientific studies that claim such radiation is safe. He implicitly charges that a cover-up of the dangers has been engineered by industry, government, regulatory agencies and academia. He also reviews studies suggesting that computer video display terminals (VDTs) may induce cataracts, birth defects and miscarriages, and briefly assesses the potential hazards from electric blankets and electrically heated waterbeds. First serial to the New Yorker. (Oct.)
Part 1 | Power Lines | 13 |
1 | An Unfunded Study | 15 |
2 | Early Warning | 25 |
3 | Speaking Out | 33 |
4 | Some Conflicts of Interest | 40 |
5 | Some Widely Accepted Risks | 45 |
6 | Retaliation | 52 |
7 | Obfuscation | 57 |
8 | In a Bind | 63 |
9 | The Electric Power Research Institute | 67 |
10 | The Workplace Connection | 73 |
11 | Partial Confirmation | 79 |
12 | Pioneer | 86 |
Part 2 | Cover-up | 97 |
13 | "Who Is My Enemy?" | 99 |
14 | Answering the Question | 107 |
15 | The Best Possible Face | 113 |
16 | A Grave Lack of Good Judgment | 118 |
17 | Under the Light Bulb | 127 |
18 | A Question of Promotion | 132 |
19 | Corroboration | 137 |
20 | The Electric Blanket Connection | 145 |
21 | Something Is Happening | 153 |
22 | Project ELF | 159 |
23 | Saving the Honeybees | 165 |
24 | Buried Heads | 170 |
25 | The Free Exchange of Thought | 173 |
26 | The Uncertainty Factor | 180 |
27 | Adverse Witness | 187 |
28 | Verdict | 193 |
29 | Not Readily Translatable | 200 |
30 | Testimony | 209 |
31 | Protest | 218 |
32 | Reason Not to Trust | 222 |
Part 3 | Computer Terminals | 227 |
33 | A Unanimous Decision | 229 |
34 | The Expected Unexpected | 238 |
35 | Anyone Who's Paranoid | 245 |
36 | An Ocean of Denial | 253 |
37 | Benign Neglect | 260 |
38 | The Spanish Connection | 266 |
39 | The Twisting Stage | 271 |
40 | In Front of Every Nose | 279 |
41 | Ignoring the Evidence | 284 |
42 | Trail Blazing | 290 |
43 | A Walk in the Sun | 296 |
44 | Watchdog | 301 |
45 | Assessment | 306 |
Index | 315 |