In article <fb967a$sbv$1@news.datemas.de>,
"dennis@home" <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> writes:
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> "George Weston" <geoweston@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:5jqcqgFqjmpU1@mid.individual.net...
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> > "Graham" <graham@nospam.zen.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:46d7dd55$0$21099$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk...
> >>
> >> "Retired" <anon@privacy.com> wrote in message
> >> news:13dfku6hubjq351@corp.supernews.com...
> >>>
> >>> "lenny" <lenny@say.no.wifi> wrote in message
> >>> news:fb79tv$h39$1@news.datemas.de...
> >>>> It will be interesting to see how this one plays out:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...0&in_a_source=
> >>>>
> >>>> Only ten minutes on a mobile could trigger cancer, scientists believ
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> Where does your village get its water from?
> Have you seen an analysis of what it contains yet?
> Has the soil been tested recently?
>
> All far more interesting than radar or mobile health effects.

Helicopter pilots can only father girls, I've read. The suggestion where
I read it was something to do with spending a lot of time in a high-frequency-
vibration environment, but it wasn't a particularly convincing explanation.
--
SAm.