[techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

[Amanda Owens]

I doubt there's much 'neutral' literature out there - most people who 
research this sort of thing are going to have an agenda on one side of 
the arguement or the other, and both sides can take the same data and 
argue whatever they want to be 'the truth' with it. Unfortunately.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that since there's not much you can do 
about it in this day and age, and live in a relatively comfortable manner 
while engaging in a half-ways technical carreer, why worry? Medicine 
keeps getting better and better, thus hopefully in 10 years they'll 
already be able to fix whatever problems I have because I spent the last 
10 years in front of a 21" CRT. 

Everything in the world is bad, if not done in moderation. Water can kill 
you, oxygen can kill you... Too much of anything and you're going to have 
problems. (I mean, more than 5 minutes of any M$ product, and my stomach 
gets qweasy...) But if you sit more than 3 feet from the television, try 
not to live under telephone/electrical poles (or over buried more buried 
cable than it takes to get to your house), and don't stand in front of 
the open door of your refrigerator too terribly long, I imagine you're 
going to be just as well off as the rest of us.

Now, there *are* folks who are always more sensitive to such things as 
others (or else Jenn wouldn't have brought the subject up in the first 
place). Minimizing exposure (like one might not stand *right* next your 
microwave while it's on, or the nurse hiding behind an iron wall while 
she takes your x-ray) is always a good idea. Especially if you already 
have problems. Who knows? 10 years down the road, our monitors *might* 
kill us. But I like to have enough faith in medical research that they'll 
figure it out before it's too big of a problem, and then they'll figure 
out how to fix it so it won't be a problem at all.

(of course, I have to believe in medical research - that's what I do for 
a living. ;)

Mur!

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Steve Kudlak wrote:

> Ugggh, this is sort of one of those questions. The one I want to ask. I have heard a
> lot about EMR and its proposed harm. Can someone give me pointers to go literature
> on the subject, from a thoughtful and nuetral perspective. As far as I have seen all
> I can get is: "It's bad" (Health Activists) and "Nothing Wrong"(EPRI --- Electrical
> Power Rsearch Institues).
> 
> Since I am we all use this sort of equipment it would be nice if there was any
> reasearch on it, and how it was done. Beyond the sort of SPSS/SAS correlate
> everything with everything and guess. Actually it should be correlate everything
> with everything and then pick a few things for extensive research.
> 
> Have Fun
> Sends Steve
> 

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