AMMRL,
While I agree with Neil completely, I hope that none of our female colleagues
will take Neil's message as discouraging the reporting to the group of this
anecdotal evidence. Even anecdotal evidence is better than no data at all. We
just have to be careful about over interpreting it which is, I think, what Neil
is saying.
Charlie
Neil Jacobsen wrote:
> AMMRL,
>
> I can't report any healthy babies, but I would like to point out that
> anecdotal evidence is not epidemiology. There are plenty of healthy
> children of chain smokers and alcoholics out there. If there are any
> harmful effects of static magnetic fields, they would probably occur at
> very low probabilities which would require very careful comparisons with
> similar groups of pregnant women who are not exposed to magnetic fields.
> While these reports from individuals are encouraging, they only prove that
> magnetic fields are not acutely harmful.
>
> Neil
>
> At 12:27 PM 1/14/02 -0600, Susan Alguindigue wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I also have a very healthy and extremely bright 2 year old. I worked very
> >closely with a 500 MHz magnet during my entire pregnancy.
> >Sincerely,
> >Susan Alguindigue
> >
> >NMR Facility Manager
> >University of Oklahoma
> >Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
> >620 Parrington Oval, Room 208
> >Norman, Oklahoma 73019
> >
> >(405) 325-0677
> >
> >
> Neil E. Jacobsen, Ph.D.
> NMR Facility Manager
> Department of Chemistry
> 119 Old Chemistry
> 1306 E. University
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ 85721
> 520-621-8146
> FAX 520-621-8407
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