Oh, for the days:
Remember when everyone used to be really, really worried about power lines? youtube.com/watch?feature=… — Ketan Joshi (@ArghJoshi) June 13, 2013
Those were worried Australians in the mid-2000s, so it wasn't all that long ago. In the United States, people were really, really worried in the 1980s and 1990s about getting cancer from power lines, thanks in large part to a crusading journalist who had latched on to the story, which I've previously discussed. Naturally, there was a big cover-up, too. (More about that here.) Since then, we appear to have moved on to fretting about Wi-Fi (nuked sperm!) and cell phones. On the latter, some are now wondering: "Do cell phones cause cancer--Or just brain tumors?" Alas, there's no way to know, because despite there being no evidence that cell phones and WiFi cause cancer or brain tumors, like some claim about GMOs, no evidence of ...
