"Graham" <graham@nospam.zen.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Retired" <anon@privacy.com> wrote in message
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>> "lenny" <lenny@say.no.wifi> wrote in message
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>>> It will be interesting to see how this one plays out:
>>>
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>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...0&in_a_source=
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>>> Only ten minutes on a mobile could trigger cancer, scientists believ
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>> I worked on high power radars in my twenties and thirties, long before
>> people started to worry about radiation and, along with those collegues
>> that I'm still in touch with, am going strong in my seventies.
>> Only point of interest is that all of our children are girls.
>> No doubt some "scientist", carrying out "research" would use this info
>> to prove something, but even I, as an engineer, know that there were not
>> enough of us to make this information statistically significant.
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> This is a well-known "urban fact" - that men who worked with radar or
> other VHF/UHF/SHF high power transmitters fathered only girls - people I
> worked with in the 1970's recognised this.

There must be a "reverse-radar effect" in my village then.
With the exception of two girls, all the local kids are boys.
This has been noted as strange by many folk around here - including the
youth club leader.

George