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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by klmr on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:59AM (#21312296)
Careful, you’re misinterpreting the document. The two studies you’ve picked are listed as “neither evidence of an effect or a null finding”, they are not included in the “more than 500 studies” finding harmful effects. Those studies are prefixed by “P” in the document and, although I haven’t counted, a rough estimate based on the number of pages makes it plausible that there are > 500.

That said, given the scientific consensus from rigorous meta-analyses, I expect that these “positive” studies are mostly of low quality and/or limited sample size. And scepticism is generally warranted when advocates start listing large numbers of studies instead of referring to a few meta-studies. As it happens, the best available meta-studies come to the opposite conclusion (namely, that there’s probably no harm from mobile EMF), so this long list is essentially bogus.

Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by abainbridge on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:38AM (#21313501)
Good point. Thanks for the patient explanation.

To partly redeem myself, I followed the links to the first two articles prefixed by "P". They were https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29725476 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29268055

The first didn't have a conclusion and the results were just the measured RF power in an apartment.

The conclusion of the second is, "A total of 900-MHz EMF applied in middle and late adolescence may cause changes in the morphology and biochemistry of the rat ovarium.", which makes no sense. "A total of 900-MHz EMF" is gibberish. The complete text is not freely available.

Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by godelski on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:05PM (#21318547)
The codes used are:

>> Study Effect Codes:

>> P This study reported effects from the exposure or radiation category (effects can be either positive or negative and may be primary or secondary outcomes)

>> N This study reported no effects from the exposure or radiation category

>> - This study offered important insights or findings but is neither evidence of an effect or a null finding

I'll be honest, this ordering seems dubious to me. P (for positive?) can show either positive or negative effects. N (for negative) shows no effects. - (for neither?) shows neither evidence of an effect or a null finding. I would think that P needs to be subdivided better to show which papers show a positive or negative effect.

Can someone do a count on the number of each category?