I spent time in the actual scientific literature on electromagnetic field effects from submarine cables — the hazard buried in stipulation after stipulation of the assent, promised away with a line item labeled “EMF monitoring.” That’s real science, and it deserves to be treated as real science. What this means for the assent CRMC already signedCRMC’s June 9 approval carries 30 stipulations, EMF monitoring among them. It’s a commitment made in good faith to a method we don’t yet know works. He grew up sailing, fishing, and swimming in the Sakonnet River as a resident of Tiverton, andnow resides in Warren, R.I.