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Re:Scientists warn of potential serious health effects of 5G... by dekhn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:30AM (#17969123)
Results in SD rats aren't useful. They're misused widely in research.

The results so far (surveyed across the literature; I'm a biophysicist who is familiar with all sorts of radiation and biology) are not convincing. most studies lack controls, or have poor study design.

Re:Scientists warn of potential serious health effects of 5G... by ColanR on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:04AM (#17969490)
Sure they're misused; but they're still relevant as a first-level analysis. If the results are promising, more studies can be justified. No one is claiming that humans and rats have more than the most minor physiological similarity.

But just because 'most studies' into EMF radiation at this frequency are not convincing, does not mean that they all are not. Those poorly conducted studies should be ignored, not used as mud thrown onto good studies.

I thought this one was interesting. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376454/

Re:Scientists warn of potential serious health effects of 5G... by dekhn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:33AM (#17969784)
I don't think rats that are highly prone to getting cancer for reasons that are specific to that rat subspecies' biology means they're relevant as a first-level analysis.

As for ignoring poor studies: that's the first and best thing you should do, because otherwise, you'll spend a bunch of time trying to hypothesize your way out of a morass of contradictory, confusing, and ambiguous data.

Re:Scientists warn of potential serious health effects of 5G... by alexandercrohde on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:19PM (#17970939)
Let's not confuse absence of evidence with evidence of absence.

My proposal, whatever maximum dosage regulators approve, they will get a tower installed next to their house that exposes them to that dosage. Align the incentives.

Re:Scientists warn of potential serious health effects of 5G... by dekhn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:35PM (#17971091)
that sounds petulant.
Re:Scientists warn of potential serious health effects of 5G... by alexandercrohde on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:45PM (#17975553)
that sounds ad-hominem