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To: foundation who wrote (90871)	12/28/2000 12:00:48 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Cause and effect is not needed in US justice system There is still no link to Breast impants abd disease. However that didnt help the implant makers.

To: foundation who wrote (90871)	12/29/2000 6:33:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Benjamin, do you have a link for 'Ambulance-chasing' please? Tero actually knows about brains and cancer, so he should be a pretty good commentator. So far, on reading the bit about the study they did which allegedly showed no correlation with cancer, I'm not impressed. It was a pathetic study which would NOT have found a small effect. Tero has simply, glibly assumed the journal has a solid conclusion. I think the burden of proof is for the phone business to show safety. Not for the user to show harm, which would be a statistical proof and impossible for a single case of cancer. I am not persuaded that we are in the clear on this [and have argued this since 1996]. Maybe we are going to find out soon how in the clear we are. Mq < Ambulance-chasing Tero Kuittinen 12/28/00 10:46 AM ET The new lawsuits concerning mobile phones and cancer are exquisitely badly timed. Papers trying to tentatively build a case for cause-and-effect have been published in journals with tenuous academic credentials. However, during the recent month there has been a one-two punch of research papers showing no link between phone usage and oncogenesis. The new research has been published in JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine – two of the leading medical publications in the world. Litigation against the tobacco industry was built on a mountain of evidence about the link between smoking and incidence of cancer among smokers. But now articles published in journals with top impact factors (a measure of their academic standing) in the field have found no statistical evidence of a connection between mobile phones and cancer. Future research may unearth new evidence; but the burden of proof after this December’s research publications is a lot higher than it was last autumn. >