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Originally Posted by ASU2003
There needs to be more science done and less statistics. Report on science, let that statistic experiments stay in the journals.
If they would have come out with, EM radiation at this level will cause cancer, and this is why. That is science.
[made up] '20% of the population that uses cell phones the most could get cancer in 30 years' [/made up] is statistics.
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But how do you think "science" gets done? Especially with regards to cancer. The sort of genetic degeneration that creates cancer happens over a significant amount of time so that it is essentially impossible to pinpoint precisely the specific cause of that cancer. There is no way to go "see, see, this puff of smoke is what caused this lung cancer," or "here it is, this HPV infection just created this cervical cancer." In things like that, the research has to be essentially statistics. And statistics that aren't as simple as " '20% of the population that uses cell phones the most could get cancer in 30 years." There are controls and so on.