DNA Breaks: The Controversy Continues
The ability of ELF magnetic fields to damage DNA may be getting clearer (see item below) —but not so for microwaves. Over the last ten years, the battle of the Washington universities has been raging,...
View Article“Radiation Research” and The Cult of Negative Results
Radiation Research is a scientific journal whose primary focus is on ionizing radiation, with only a minority of papers devoted to the non-ionizing side of the electromagnetic spectrum. Its June issue,...
View ArticleRadiation Research Stands Pat
The trend continues. The August issue of Radiation Research is out and it has two papers on the possible effects of RF/microwave radiation, one from Finland and one Sweden. In each case, no effects...
View ArticleIndustry Studies Tend To Come Up Empty
There's an old English saying that goes "He who pays the piper calls the tune."This also applies to cell-phone health studies according to a new analysis by a team from Switzerland's University of...
View ArticleJournals Address Conflicts of Interest
More and more scientific societies are considering adopting disclosure rules to shed light on potential conflicts of interest.
View ArticleEditor Steps Down After Conflicts Revealed
When we wrote (September 21) that conflicts of interest among journal editors are not being addressed, we were neglecting the case of Charles Nemeroff, the editor-in-chief of Neuropsychopharmacology....
View ArticleRadiation Research: Some Positive Results
It's a new year and maybe, just maybe, it signals a new outlook at Radiation Research, a journal with a reputation for publishing negative findings (see, for instance, "Radiation Research and The Cult...
View ArticleKuster: BEMS Is a Society with a “Biased Scientific Culture”
Publication bias is a well-known problem —it's defined in a recent, widely read New Yorker article as "the tendency of scientists and scientific journals to prefer positive data over null results,...
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