is another reason why reporters should learn a thing or two about the peer review process in scientific work.
The BBC story has a subtitle in bold which goes "Radio waves from mobile phones do harm body cells and damage DNA, a laboratory study has shown." This, of course, is all most people will remember.
Although most of the rest of the story goes on in length to say that no health effects have been found and that "The results of this study are preliminary, not yet published or peer-reviewed and require further replication by other groups", the guy who led the study stated: "We don't want to create a panic, but it is good to take precautions", and "people should use landlines, rather than mobiles, wherever possible". The story going on to say "the report did recommend a precautionary approach and said children should only use mobile phones in emergencies".
So now we will have children only phoning their parents during what the child perceives to be an emergency? This story is such nonsense. Precautionary principle. Bah. |
