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Can you hear me now? - Magical Realist - Sep 8, 2016
"Game-Changing" Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Cancer
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/05/federal-study-links-cell-phone-radiation-cancer
RE: Can you hear me now? - C C - Sep 9, 2016
Quote:This article was updated to reflect criticism of the study's conclusions by outside researchers.
I was slow to realize how politically dichotomous the issue of cellphone radiation had already become. Though I doubt membership neatly follows some right / left slotting as in climate change (among the scientists).
RE: Can you hear me now? - Magical Realist - Sep 10, 2016
(Sep 9, 2016 08:58 PM)C C Wrote:Quote:This article was updated to reflect criticism of the study's conclusions by outside researchers.
I was slow to realize how politically dichotomous the issue of cellphone radiation had already become. Though I doubt membership neatly follows some right / left slotting as in climate change (among the scientists).
In this case I think it's a matter of following the money. Who stands to suffer financial loss from cellphones being unsafe?
"The wireless industry and many media outlets—particularly tech sites, which depend on the industry for advertising—have confidently proclaimed that the science on cellphone safety is settled."
This in turn ties into the whole school of corporate sponsored science, from petro industry funded studies on fracking to Big pharma's grip on medical studies. No doubt there's a whole species of political animal out there who floats as effortlessly within one corporatized science polemic as they do another. Vociferous shills you might say of the standard industry party line. Or better yet "useful idiot" skeptics who wave the banner of Science around like a flag. One week its gun violence studies for the NRA. The next week its climate change studies for the Global Guild of Fucking Polluting Coal Burners. Same old picking apart of good studies just to raise reasonable doubt in them and lessen their credibility.
RE: Can you hear me now? - stryder - Sep 10, 2016
(Sep 10, 2016 12:12 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: In this case I think it's a matter of following the money. Who stands to suffer financial loss from cellphones being unsafe?
"The wireless industry and many media outlets—particularly tech sites, which depend on the industry for advertising—have confidently proclaimed that the science on cellphone safety is settled."
I'm pretty sure that following the money is why the cellphone industry boomed in the first place.
Most medical related experiments that handle such things as dealing with the advent of new technologies can take multiple years of testing before a result is eventually quantified. The nature of a technology, patents and peoples need/greed for money literally means fast tracking before someone else creates it and pushes it out there.
I've therefore always considered the potential for previous experiments in regards to mobile devices as being intellectually dishonest with the likelihood of large payouts for falsified results.