Un petit blog sans prétentions et sans ligne éditoriale fixe.
A recent article in London's Sunday Times reported that clusters of cancer centered around seven different mobile telephone masts, raising the concern that mobile phone radiation might cause cancer. However, there are 47,000 mobile phone masts in England. The article was titled Cancer clusters at phone masts but for all the details it contains it could just as well have been titled Cell phone masts ward off cancer clusters 99.985% of the time. It is certainly legitimate to be concerned about these seven cancer clusters, but before concluding that cell phones have anything to do with it, we'd need more data: how many of the other 47,000 masts have cancer clusters? How does that number compare to what we would expect by chance?Si je me sortais les doigts du fondement, j'en ferais une traduction française complète, mais en l'état actuel des choses, ça attendra sans doute jusqu'aux calendes grecques.