Mobile phone and baby monitor RADIATION!! ( General )
Thanks to pop-culture pseudoscientists flogging nonsense about mobile phone headsets and mobile phones killing bees in the mainstream media of late, mgk has been getting a ton of hits on all my past posts on the topic. It’s pretty obvious to me from the search terms showing up in my statistics engine that the general […]
( more )Science and 5G in the Blue Mountains ( General )
mgk returns from a long hiatus to reproduce a letter I wrote to Blue Mountains City Council Mayor Mark Greenhill, as a response to a Blue Mountains Gazette story about a council meeting being mobbed by a gaggle of anti-science, anti-5G phone system fearmongers Dear Mayor Greenhill, I am a resident of the Blue Mountains, […]
( more )Sydney Morning Herald led down the rosy garden path by Lyn McLean ( General )
image: xkcd The Sydney Morning Herald’s Tim Elliott has allowed himself to be suckered by Lyn McLean, dowser, ‘energy healer,’ ‘crystal healer’ and self described expert in the harms of exposure to radio frequency signals: Ear-bashing: feeling the heat in a city that forever beeps Tim Elliott September 3, 2011 MARTIN PLACE has plenty; George […]
( more )San Francisco mandates mobile phone warnings despite no evidence of harm ( General )
Phones running hot after radiation warnings June 18, 2010 LOS ANGELES: San Francisco is set to require mobile phone makers to warn customers that the gadgets are bathing them in radiation. The city’s Board of Supervisors has approved the unprecedented law in a 10-to-1 vote, and it is expected to be signed by the mayor, […]
( more )Mobile phones, teh brane cancer and why science & pop media headlines don’t mix ( General )
Somewhere along the line, despite lack of any supporting evidence, the notion that mobile phones are somehow connected to brain cancer has recently entered the pop culture lexicon. A long awaited meta-analysis of mobile phone use and brain cancers, known as the Interphone study, was released yesterday. The net result of the study was that […]
( more )Pseudoscience kills ( General )
I live in the incredibly beautiful Blue Mountains, around 100km west of the Sydney CBD. Get a look at the area in Google Maps. Sydney’s sprawl stops dead, right at the Nepean River. Place names in the Blue Mountains National Park, such as ‘The Devil’s Wilderness‘ and ‘The Blue Labyrinth‘ ought to give anyone with […]
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