FDA Requests Another Study on Wireless Health Risks > When all else fails, try "It's for the children"

reply to fAcEtIOUs

Re: When all else fails, try "It's for the children"

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.

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.

reply to jc100

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.

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!