Comments on Epidemiological Papers Related to Cancer and Power-Line Magnetic Fields from a Technological Standpoint

Abstract

While some epidemiological papers state that a connection exists between power-line magnetic fields and cancer, experimental studies on animals and cells have shown no substantial effect which resulted from exposure to magnetic fields; that is, there is a discrepancy between the conclusion reached by epidemiology, a non-experimental science, and that by the experimental studies on animals and cells, an experimental science. Therefore, the author thinks that there must be some omissions in the epidemiological papers. In this paper, this author presents an opinion, a hypothesis, that 'every epidemiological paper should be arranged to make increased risk rather large from safety sides not to neglect any of potential causes of a disease, while a detailed examination of the propriety of its premise, the assumption, and of the logicality at its reasoning is a matter that can wait', and shows that some epidemiological papers, such as the Karolinska paper and others, about the connection between magnetic fields and childhood leukemia support the hypothesis.