Subject:  Re Comments on recent studies (Philips) (Woodley).... (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 16 Aug 1999 181149 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 07:06:19 -0400
From: "Richard W.  Woodley" 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: Comments on recent studies (Philips)....

At 03:13 PM 1999-08-16 -0500, you wrote:
>
>(a) They used time weighted 48 hour average (TWA) magnetic field exposure
>from monitors worn on the children taken as soon as possible after
>diagnosis. This did not show a dose response relationship.
>However the US NIEHS asked for the raw data and DID find a small but real
>increasing dose-response relationship of incidence of childhood leukaemia
>with increasing magnetic field level.
>

        Hey folks - the raw data showed a dose response relationship but the study
used TWAs to provide results that dod not show that. Isn't this kind of
distortion of the data considered "scientific misconduct". Just wondering.

********************* Richard W. Woodley *********************
woodley@igs.net *********** http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ab190/
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