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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:16:20 GMT, "George"
<george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>"Wally AngleseaT" <wanglese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>message news:ateiv114rdtmv7d9firb4d2i6k5m602qh3@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:23:07 GMT, "George"
>> <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>
>>>"Bob Officer" <bobofficers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:r89iv1tq1n663dk9e6q7kkm5ipdiigcmo9@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:18:36 GMT, in sci.geo.earthquakes, Wally
>>>> AngleseaT <wanglese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:44:15 -0800, Bob Officer
>>>>><bobofficers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>><SNIP>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As you guess, I know people on the bunko-squad. they said when a
>>>>>>>> scam
>>>>>>>> is uncovered, while con-man is usually not upset. the people that
>>>>>>>> usually object the most are the marks and rubes who foolishly and
>>>>>>>> with great folly invested their cash and beliefs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Their are not mad at the Con Artist. they are usually mad at the
>>>>>>>> police... and make accusations of towards the police of shutting
>>>>>>>> down
>>>>>>>> an honest businessman; alternate medical practice; or free thinking
>>>>>>>> spirit. Most refuse to admit their own folly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'd feel sorrow for them if I wasn't so busy laughing at their utter
>>>>>>>gullibility.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I feel sorry for old couples, often spending there last dollars for
>>>>>>worthless cures. It always seems to leave the widow dead broke.
>>>>>
>>>>>1: The scam artists depend on the needs of the scammed, and prey on
>>>>>those needs. The immorality of it all doesn't enter into the scammers
>>>>>mind.
>>>>
>>>> Faith healers; snake oil salesman; Orgon Generators; blood zappers;
>>>> Cell salts cults; Some <not all> herbal curatives.
>>>
>>>Add: Crystal healers, magnetic medical bracelets, etc.
>>
>>
>> Oh, mate the funniest thing I ever saw was a magazine that had an
>> "expose" on power lines, and how the government was hiding the fact
>> that the magnetic fields generated from power lines were causing
>> cancer, and bipolar disorder and other illnesses in children.
>>
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>> Then on the inside back cover, they were selling the therapeutic
>> benefits of pillows bedsheets and mattresses with magnets in them.
>>
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>>
>> "You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down."
>
>Well, the ads must certainly have been amusing under those circumstances.
Yeah, that was the point, triggered by the "magnetic medical
bracelets" remark.
>I don't want to argue the pros and cons of whether high tension powerlines
>cause cancer, but I will tell you that my mother and step-father, who lived
>for many years next door to the largest power substation here in
>Louisville, both developed rare non-canerous tumours at the base of their
>pitiutary glands that had to be removed via a very dangerous operation,
>plus some limited radiation therapy. My step-father developed the tumour
>first. Five years later, my mother developed the exact same tumour. When
>my mother developed it, I asked the neurosurgeon who operated on her what
>the chances were of two genetically different people living under the same
>roof developing the exact same rare tumour, and he said that you are more
>likely to win the lottery. Did powerlines cause their tumours? I don't
>know, but I do know that the lady behind them died of colon cancer, one of
>her sons developed a non-cancerous tumour in his chest that was the size of
>a softball, the man who lived next door to them (closer to the substation)
>died of bone cancer, and the lady who lived next to my mother (and who had
>lived there for over twenty years) suddenly contracted pancreatic cancer
>that grew so fast that it killed her within three weeks. Are all of these
>deaths/illnesses related? I don't know, and I have no way of knowing. I do
>know that the power company now will not allow any contractor to develop
>residential properties within 100 yards of their high tension lines.
>
I'm sorry to hear it. It would be an "interesting" study to see the
incidence of cancers amongst power workers (those who maintain the
transmission lines).
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