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On cancers, false balance and the judiciary
Climate change has for long been my go-to example to illustrate how absolute objectivity can sometimes be detrimental to the reliability of a news report. Stating that A said “Climate change is real” and that B replied “No, it isn’t” … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, carcinogen, cellphone towers, false balance, Joel Moskowitz, lung cancer, non-ionising radiation, radio-frequency radiation, Supreme Court of India
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Oxygen may be a carcinogen
In inordinate amounts or forms, anything can be poison to life – even the air we breathe. But its threat seems more ominous when you think that even in small quantities, accumulated over time, the oxygen in the air can … Continue reading
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Tagged carcinogen, confounding factors, covariance, ecological fallacy, elevation, lung cancer, oxygen, regression modeling, relative importance analysis, tumorigenesis
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