Dear Editor:
First, I want to thank you for publishing my
”
Letter to The Editor
”
regarding the microwave radiation scare.
Dear Editor:
First, I want to thank you for publishing my “Letter to The Editor” regarding the microwave radiation scare. It is appreciated. And I especially liked the title you selected for the article. It very accurately conveyed the content and intent of the letter.
Second, I’d like to chide you a little about your editing/proofreading which, in one instance, significantly damaged the point I was trying to make. In line two, paragraph eight of the letter (as it appeared in the paper), I used the words “no expectation” of cancer from exposure to the microwaves. You, unfortunately, changed the text to read “no explanation”, a much weaker statement. In line 10 of the third paragraph (again as it appeared in the paper), you inserted the word “point” after breaking. Here, the sense of the sentence isn’t severely altered but becomes somewhat inaccurate regarding the actual claims made by the speaker at the meeting. He was ranting about the breaking of the DNA chemical bonds by the microwaves; the breaking point was never mentioned.
Thanks again for helping to bring some scientific evidence to bear on this issue.
Mark F. Lyons, Gilroy
Submitted Monday, Dec. 9 to ed****@ga****.com
