[CholeraJoe]

"there is not a lot of scientific research and data on the effect of microwaves on human beings."

There's plenty of data on the effects of high powered radar on humans. Most of it resulted from stupidity like drinking beer in front of a megawatt radar dish while it was turned on. Several deaths back in the 70's and 80's, most still classified.

[fight_truth_decay]

The CIA did investigate the
use and effect of microwaves on humans in response to a Soviet
practice of beaming microwaves on the U.S. embassy. The agency
determined that this was outside the scope of the Advisory
Committee's purview.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet4/brief4.gfr/tab_j/br4j1.txt

[geopyg]

Before jumping on the bandwagon against this mother, I wonder if the effects could be such that they were "delayed"? If the mom comes home and the baby is "sleeping" - but breathing fine, etc. could it still have been nuked by the babysitter? I imagine that the baby still would have been in terrible pain however, unless it was in a coma or something. Regardless, whoever did this will be set on High for eternity.

[Kozak]

I remember reading about the guys up in the UP of Michigan at the SAC base who used to warm their hands in front of the radome on the alert B-52's

[Bonaparte]

"There's plenty of data on the effects of high powered radar on humans."

The coroner's statement puzzles me as well. Does he think a microwave oven will internally cook the tissue of a chicken, a rabbit and a trout but not the tissue of a human infant? Not that dumb people don't sit on juries, but every last one of them has used a microwave repeatedly so defense won't be able to throw sand in their eyes on this point.

Then there's this claim from Arnold's lawyer --

The night before the baby was taken to the hospital, Arnold and the child's father went out for a short time and left Paris with a baby sitter, Rion said. The mother didn't sense anything out of the ordinary until the next morning, when the child was found unconscious."

IOW, in addition to not checking her own infant after returning from her brief evening out, she failed to notice on the following morning that the kid was cold, stiff and grossly disfigured? She failed to notice the various body fluids collected on and around this infant's body? And she failed to notice the smell?

Speaking of smells, I think I smell the distinct odor of an insanity plea.