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join:2002-03-03
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|  When all else fails, try "It's for the children"
The people who have advocated for study after study over cellphone dangers have finally had to fall back on the old tried and true standby - "It is for the children". Whenever a special cause has been proved unworthy after many, many studies, advocates of that cause almost always fall back on the danger to children to justify to the great unwashed a reason to fork over more money to their causes. |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
| And not for the taxpayers, who foot the bill for this ridiculous study. Price tag? Im sure the skies the limit. Who will do it? A friend of some politician probably will get awarded this lucrative crap. End result? Wireless doesn't harm you (as we know), but it will cost us 10s of millions to find that out again. |
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grandpinaple
join:2006-01-03
New York, NY
1 edit | Not quite, the result will be inconclusive leading to the award of another contract... 
In all seriousness though, it's worried soccer moms that keep putting the pressure of lawsuits, that's probably driving things like this. |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
| We should give those mom tin foil hats =) and that'll solve it right up. As for the end result, inconclusive would be great for getting more studies. Or, it could backfire and lead to lots of lawsuits. Hence, it's better to find it doesn't hurt anyone and milk that study for all its worth. |
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said by jc100  :And not for the taxpayers, who foot the bill for this ridiculous study. Price tag? Im sure the skies the limit. Who will do it? A friend of some politician probably will get awarded this lucrative crap. End result? Wireless doesn't harm you (as we know), but it will cost us 10s of millions to find that out again. I feel they are going to keep doing this until they just make a fib and say its harmful which will shut the whiners up... but look at all the other stuff around today in use.. 5.4ghz cordless phones and etc.
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
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| It's the research equivalent of doctor shopping. If you do enough studies, you'll eventually find one that gives you the results you're looking for. Then you point to that one to show the horrible dangers of Wi-Fi and disregard the tons of other studies that say it's not dangerous at all. |
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jc100
join:2002-04-10
| Yep. Will always find someone will to go along with your results, even in the most professional fields. Enough money and time could probably find you a doctor who claims HIV doesn't exist, cancer is in psychosomatic, etc. Problem is, as you said, it's these sort of studies that people then hold in high esteem to sell their results or invoke panic. Sigh, but hey, that's why you read who does the study and who was behind it to draw your own conclusions! |
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