Re: Mobile phones can trigger eye damage, fear scientists By Peter Zimonjic

>Rubbish

Trying to open an intellectual discourse there. Should've known better
on the newsgroups, but I'll try nonetheless.

>let me make it more clear, a single well designed positive finding study
>may overturn any number of negative studies.

No, in the real world it would need to be replicated several times by
several independant laboratories before it was even taken seriously by
the scientific community at large. Especially an in vitro experiment
such as this one. Cultured anythings (lenses included) are unreliable
at best, you should know that.

>So called "weight of
>scientific evidence" is illusory unless you are adding apples to apples
>and as far as most research goes you are adding apples and oranges >because
>even so called replication studies in this field are rarely so.

Weight of scientific evidence is just how things are done. If something
is true, then the weight of evidence will tend to turn in it's
direction, albeit slowly at times. A single positive study proves
absolutely nothing other than a possibility.

I read the original paper (its online via Wiley interscience) and it's
a different species and ex vivo, so I wouldn't be anywhere near
convinced let alone worried just now.

And I really don't get the apples and oranges analogy fella.

.

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