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Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks

by trekker7 on 7/24/08, 3:49 AM with 1 comments

  • by mechanical_fish on 7/24/08, 5:29 AM

    Linkbait: It's not just for kids! Sometimes, respected scientists get into the act.

    I'm impressed, though -- this is a much better article than the title would suggest. It does a good job of running down the evidence that this guy is being hysterical for no good reason. All the old data -- and there's quite a lot of it -- is inconclusive, and there's no new data:

    Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now - especially when it comes to children.

    "Early, unpublished data." Perhaps we should also design some cold-fusion power packs for our children.

    Interesting how it's only the answers that agree with this guy's gut feeling that take such a long time to be found by science.