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A Badly Flawed NYT Story Trumpets Cell Phone Health Dangers

March 18, 2015 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Journalism, science | 27 comments

https://www.tomolpack.com/2025/03/11/uvx332depm [UPDATE: See media reaction at bottom of this post. Also, be sure to read the correction at end of the NYT article and the response from the NYT public editor.] I’m racing to meet a deadline, but this story in the New York Times is so dismaying I had to take a few minutes to call attention to… https://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?p=o6e4e2np7lx Continue Reading…

https://www.salernoformazione.com/058os4yk

Exploiting the Precautionary Principle

May 9, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in precautionary principle, science, science journalism, select | 26 comments

There are a couple of ways to interpret the story about a revoked ordinance in San Francisco that, as Reuters reports, would have been the first in the United States to require [cell phone] retailers to warn consumers about potentially dangerous radiation levels. Before it was reversed it was known as–get ready for it–the “right… Continue Reading…

https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/l34g3dl

Annals of Amplification in Journalism

February 27, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in electromagnetic fields, Epidemiology, Paul Brodeur, science, science journalism, select | 9 comments

https://ottawaphotographer.com/fqv1wy2vgh In recent years, we’ve seen episodic waves of hysteria over reports of brain tumors and other cancers allegedly caused by cell phones and WiFi. If I had to trace this legacy of electromagnetic fear back in time, I would credit a 1979 study in the American Journal of Epidemiology and a series of articles in the New Yorker (under… https://www.plantillaslago.com/ovopx1i72r Continue Reading…

https://chemxtree.com/043l7p5ub