The Times has an article today about how a cancer clusters have been identified around mobile phone masts. Quick! Panic! Or don’t. I’m frankly amazed that, even taking into account the general appalling reporting of science in the UK press, that a journalist would fall for that one. The story is about seven , isolated… Continue reading A single cluster (or even seven) does not prove a link to phone masts and cancer
Tag: health
Labour’s hospital grab is somewhat overstated
There appears to be a small nugget of truth to this story, but it has been exaggerated. One does not build a hospital overnight (at least I hope one doesn’t), so the 2005 General Election figures are irrelevant to the number of hospitals built over the last decade. Compared to the 1997 results, the picture… Continue reading Labour’s hospital grab is somewhat overstated
God’s lottery
Grant Shapps is frequently cited as one of the Tories’ brightest of bright young hopes, but if this is anything to go by, I wouldn’t get too breathless just yet. Access to IVF on the NHS is a lottery, with different areas adopting different rules, an MP says. … Mr Shapps, whose own three children… Continue reading God’s lottery