“Cellphone-Cancer Link Seen in Rat Study,” said Time. “Cellphone Radiation Linked to Cancer in Major Rat Study,” said IEEE Spectrum, a magazine for engineers. I was dismayed to say the least. “Game-changing,” as Mother Jones put it, seemed like a bit of an overreach.
So I went ahead and read the paper. Despite what some outlets reported, this was a not-yet-published study of rats that had been shopped around to scientific journals for review, but had not been accepted by any editors. It detailed a study that examined if exposing rats to radiation like that emitted by cellphones might give them cancer.
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