Forum Home
PC World Chat
 
Thread ID: 118038 2011-05-17 01:45:00 Luddites! johcar (6283) PC World Chat
Post ID Timestamp Content User
1202627 2011-05-17 01:45:00 Here (www.heraldsun.com.au)
:groan:

In fact it's pretty crap journalism too, with very little attributable to anyone of substance...
johcar (6283)
1202628 2011-05-17 02:21:00 This is scary stuff. These days cancer causes are found in almost everything. Maybe we should go back in time and start reinventing the slide rule, logarithm tables and even using pen and paper to do calculations on.

I would have thought that cell-phones and other gadgets would be banned from schools because they are a distraction.
Bobh (5192)
1202629 2011-05-17 02:36:00 There was also something on TV last night about people who sit at a office desk all day have a greater chance of getting bowel/colon cancer. Trev (427)
1202630 2011-05-17 02:36:00 There has been study after study on the cancer causing likelihood of electromagnetic radiation on humans. Results from each study reflect the views of whoever is funding the study.

But the standard of journalism in that article is atrocious.


In the foreground is some of the wireless equipment that is dangerous for children. - unsubstantiated


Wireless gadgets emit radiation - really!! Is that how they work? Also, use of that scary 'radiation' word.


EXPERTS have called for... - what 'experts'?


The respected body's findings - respected by whom?


The respected body's findings contrast sharply with advice from the World Health Organisation that exposure to electromagnetic fields posed little or no risk to human health - does the 'respected body' have better data than the World Health Organisation? I somehow doubt it.

And there is more...
johcar (6283)
1202631 2011-05-17 02:49:00 There was also something on TV last night about people who sit at a office desk all day have a greater chance of getting bowel/colon cancer.

Experts. They can make any statistics fit their research. Helps in getting further funding.
pctek (84)
1202632 2011-05-17 04:36:00 Virginity causes Breast Cancer.
Fact or Fiction.
Who cares start the scare!
KenESmith (6287)
1202633 2011-05-17 04:36:00 I have decided I'm an expert. Did you know that the use of Cellphones will cause McDonalds to fall from the sky? Chilling_Silence (9)
1202634 2011-05-17 05:33:00 Virginity causes Breast Cancer.
Fact or Fiction.
Who cares start the scare!

I've read that - they did a study on nuns, and they had a high incidence of it. Some theory that breastfeeding was a preventitive.

The same article also said the nuns had a low incidence of cervical cancer though.

So.................virgin births only to be healthy?
pctek (84)
1202635 2011-05-17 05:39:00 I have decided I'm an expert. Did you know that the use of Cellphones will cause McDonalds to fall from the sky?

I'll hold you to that one :clap
pcuser42 (130)
1202636 2011-05-17 06:09:00 www.badscience.net
www.badscience.net
www.badscience.net

Ben Goldacre is a very sensible man, I love his blog.
ubergeek85 (131)
1 2