Jason Trost’s Blog

In today’s Independent, the most popular article deals with the possible link between mobile usage and cancer. The first sentence is

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded.

Does this sound like an appeal to authority? The article refers to ‘growing evidence’ without giving it. Of course the possibility of danger from mobiles exists, but to what extent? Was this research done on humans? What measures danger, death? Etc, etc.

Dr Khurana is well-respected. Fine. But I think that the journalist and/or the scientist are reaching.