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Fridge killed my baby? Mag-field radiation from household stuff 'boosts miscarriage risk'

John Smith 19 Gold badge
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So who is Kaiser Permanente and what is "Scientific Reports" ?

Turns out they are a company that runs private hospitals, originally founded by a Henry Kaiser, who I'm guessing is the Kaiser in Kaiser Aluminum.

BTW Does anyone recall the studies about increased miscarriage rates of VDU operators in the 80's and 90's?

Apparently it lead to the fitting of Faraday screens in front of the CRT's to block this radiation..

Except it turns out the key stroke recording systems were timing the operators and if you weren't fast, couldn't stay fast or were fast but inaccurate you could be fired, which (surprise surprise) the operators found quite stressful.

So potentially serious if real but as others have noted correlation != causation.

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