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In article >,
Tony P. > wrote:

> In article . com>,
> says...
> > Mike, your post implies that there is a connection between microwave
> > cooking and cancer. Are you serious? I'm unaware of any research that
> > points to such a thing.
> >
>
> If I recall my classes correctly, aren't microwaves the non-ionizing
> type of radiation while X, gamma etc. are?
>
> That being said - the most they've found thus far with RF exposure is
> non-cancerous tumors. That being with HEAVY exposure.
>
> Of course guys on Navy ships have been killed by radar. That's 1cm or
> lower radar and at the power levels used it's enough to cook a human
> being.

And there was the famous (or not so famous?) story of the guy standing
on a roof between a news truck and its satellite who got a wicked
headache. He was directly in their microwave beaming path. I think it
did kill him.

Priscilla

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