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>Residential proximity to HV transmission lines increases risk of leukaemia "Everything is correlated." The land next to HV lines is cheaper, poorer people hav
by sbierwagen 8y ago
>Residential proximity to HV transmission lines increases risk of leukaemia
"Everything is correlated." The land next to HV lines is cheaper, poorer people have higher mutational load, therefore a higher cancer rate. You get a real, authentic correlation between power lines and cancer, without power lines actually directly causing cancer.
- dsl 8y ago> poorer people have higher mutational load Actually the strongest predictor of mutational load is the distance at which you are born from Africa. I know you didn't intend it to sound that way, but you basically used science words to call poor people inbred. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/4/E440.full.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/113/4/E440.full.pdf
- sbierwagen 8y agoObviously, when looking at comparative cancer rates within a single country, comparisons of mutational load within that country is more useful than comparing mutational load between countries. If you know of a study that aggregates power line cancer data from multiple countries, without normalizing it against the base rate for that country, I'd be interested in seeing it.