{"id":3029,"date":"2010-01-24T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:07:23","slug":"another-take-on-alzheimers-and-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/01\/24\/another-take-on-alzheimers-and-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Take on Alzheimer’s and Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the post Alzheimer\u2019s\/CellPhones\/Turmeric\u2013Call me and let\u2019s do curry<\/a><\/strong> RichardH discussed a study that found:<\/p>\n

Cell phone exposure may be helpful in the fight against Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new study shows. The study, involving mice, provides evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may protect against, and even reverse, Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The study is published in the Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just saw an article that mentioned a study that corroborated this result.<\/p>\n

I started to imagine how a cell phone company could cause such publicity.<\/p>\n

If you were a cell phone company, you could fund a study in which the mice were deprived of enough heat to be healthy.\u00a0 In the study the researchers could then subject some of the mice to enough cell phone radiation to provide the heat they were missing.\u00a0 The result would be mice that were healthier for the application of cell phone radiation.<\/p>\n

Now everyone knows that you should not take a single scientific study as proof of anything.\u00a0 You need some independent entity to replicate the study to see if they get the same results.\u00a0 So as a cell phone company, you fund a second study that uses the same methods as the first.\u00a0 Then you issue press releases about the study that corroborates the first one.<\/p>\n

I am not saying that I have any information that this is exactly what happened or is anything like what happened.\u00a0 It is not out of the realm of possibility, though.\u00a0 The tobacco companies were notorious for funding studies like these.<\/p>\n

This is why we need to know who funded the studies and we need to know the exact methodology of the study.\u00a0 We also need a study by a truly independent group of scientists to corroborate or refute these results.\u00a0 Of course, how do you know that the people refuting the study haven’t pulled some trick whereas the original study was completely honest?<\/p>\n

To protect myself against these kinds of possibilities, I have decided that the amount of attention you need to pay to these studies depends on the seriousness of the consequences of any decision you make that depends on this knowledge.\u00a0 If you make no decision or the decision is not very important, then who really cares.\u00a0 If you are making a life changing decision, then you need to be a lot more sure of what you think you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the post Alzheimer\u2019s\/CellPhones\/Turmeric\u2013Call me and let\u2019s do curry RichardH discussed a study that found: Cell phone exposure may be helpful in the fight against Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new study shows. The study, involving mice, provides evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may protect against, and even reverse, Alzheimer\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}