The findings are included in the final 500-page report of the controversial eight-year, 7-million-dollar study commissioned on behalf of the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC), and conducted by a trio of professional epidemiologists with backgrounds in physics, medicine and genetics.
"To one degree or another, all three of the scientists are inclined to believe that EMFs (electric and magnetic fields) can cause some degree of increased risk of childhood leukemia, adult brain cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease and miscarriage," states a leaked copy of the report as quoted by Wired.
The authors also wrote that they were not convinced of a connection between EMFs and many other health problems, ranging from cancer to suicide.
"The DHS scientists are more inclined to believe that EMF exposure increased the risk of the above health problems than the majority of the members of scientific committees convened to evaluate the scientific literature" by several national and international organizations, the report adds.
Experts explained this discrepancy by noting that most previous studies were funded by companies with ties to the power industries while the California study was solely concerned with assessing the medical risk.
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