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Dear Editor, Your columnist Dr Ruairi Hanley (IMT, May 16, 2014) referred to articles linking childhood leukaemia to electric pylons as “pretty much baseless”.

A Professor of Health Systems at DCU and member of an expert group that compiled a report for the Government in 2007 on the ‘Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs)’ has urged the authorities to take into account epidemiological evidence for an increased occurrence of childhood leukaemia near to high-voltage overhead lines.

For something completely different, Dr Ruairi Hanley examines the various negative health claims surrounding the erection of electricity pylons and the continued fluoridation of our water.

By Gary Culliton.