Thank you, Dr Novella, it was extremely helpful! I was assigned an essay on pros and contras for cell phone use, and nothing like a good skeptical article to get you through a boring essay! 8))
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/another-cell-phone-cancer-review/#comment-52589
I realize that I am continuing to post on an old thread. And I may be at risk of feeding the trolls. I am curious, though, as to what, specifically, "humanitarian science" or "therapeutic tyranny...
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/another-cell-phone-cancer-review/#comment-42833
@etatro 'I’m particularly attune to this topic because I just submitted a grant that was finally uploaded today (that involves human subjects). high five*' Congrats! I hope you will bear in min...
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@Mlema - Yes, my example was entirely fictional. I just wanted to find an example of an observational study that has some known & minimal risks as well as some known minimal benefits to the indiv...
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@ addisontree, Think of it like a catch 22; you want to do a study to prove something isn't harmful, but if you don't already have enough evidence to show it is not harmful then it is not ethical...
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@ addisontree The new study is as unethical as the old one. You don't expect that the RF Frequencys do anything in combination with exercise, but why study it then?
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/another-cell-phone-cancer-review/#comment-42679
In the case of low power RF, even with the “do no harm” constraint we can still do experiments with low power RF on humans. We would just need to slightly reframe the experiment. Participants...
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/another-cell-phone-cancer-review/#comment-42660
@jre and @etatro The Belmont Report was a good read and helps a lot. The report itself seems to allow for research with minimal risk and no benefit to the subject (assuming participants are (1) w...
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@ccbowers Sorry about the confusion. My writing is sometimes not very clear. I don't think there is any ethical issue with doing a human experiments on the effects on low power RF. I'm told by th...
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Even if we gave up our mobile phones wouldn't we still be bathed in RF radiation from other sources?
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