This is truly amazingly bad reporting on what can only be described as a preliminary, exploratory epidemiological study No, your cell phone isn't trying to kill youpic.twitter.com/HhFVzDizvF
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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This is truly amazingly bad reporting on what can only be described as a preliminary, exploratory epidemiological study No, your cell phone isn't trying to kill youpic.twitter.com/HhFVzDizvF
What did this study actually find? Virtually NOTHING AT ALL
Here's a link to the study https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP1837/#c15 If you scroll on down to the results section...pic.twitter.com/zHST9JdudR
"What's that Gid?" "Oh, not much. Just ~40 non-corrected statistical tests of which 3 were significant" "Wow! That really doesn't sound like much, does it?"pic.twitter.com/AFviAernwN
Here they are, highlighted. I should also mention that most of these were ~barely~ significantpic.twitter.com/AhFNUDyxbZ
Let's zoom in on one number that is in EVERY GODDAM ARTICLE The "1.5 times higher risk of breast cancer and twofold higher risk of prostate cancer" Total. Utter. Nonsense.pic.twitter.com/qH8WOonrFz
No! I'm getting to that, the authors were pretty straightforward about how their study is interesting and innovative and might mean nothing at all
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