Comments on: First thing we do [says God], we kill all the Luddites http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/ Fuck you in the arse and the eye Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim Bliss http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-3011 Jim Bliss Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:01:09 +0000 http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-3011 I wonder do people who believe the blanket statement, <i>"radiation causes cancer"</i>, heat their homes with radiators? I know a large part of the heating effect is via convection, but all the same... the clue is in the name folks! I wonder do people who believe the blanket statement, “radiation causes cancer”, heat their homes with radiators?

I know a large part of the heating effect is via convection, but all the same… the clue is in the name folks!

]]> By: bbm http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-3009 bbm Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:59:58 +0000 http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-3009 I'm a bit confused about the fact that the government advises against giving young children mobile phones on the basis that the radiation might harm them and that they advise building the masts for these phones next to children's schools. I’m a bit confused about the fact that the government advises against giving young children mobile phones on the basis that the radiation might harm them and that they advise building the masts for these phones next to children’s schools.

]]> By: pdf http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-2932 pdf Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:12:25 +0000 http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-2932 If the person also believed that electric lights shouldn't be allowed, since light is a form of radiation and radiation causes cancer, then I'd allow that argument. If they didn't, then I wouldn't. If the person also believed that electric lights shouldn’t be allowed, since light is a form of radiation and radiation causes cancer, then I’d allow that argument.

If they didn’t, then I wouldn’t.

]]> By: Devil's Kitchen http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-2918 Devil's Kitchen Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:10:15 +0000 http://www.pigdogfucker.com/2007/04/04/first-thing-we-do-we-kill-all-the-luddites/#comment-2918 <i>"People who hold the view that – despite no evidence or plausible mechanism to suggest that they might – mobile telephone radio waves cause cancer and therefore they shouldn’t be allowed are equally mad."</i> What, apart from the fact that radio waves are a form of radiation (albeit on a substantially different wavelength to gamma rays) and that radiation causes cancer? I'm not saying that mobiles do cause cancer, by the way, but there is a plausible causation path actually. DK “People who hold the view that – despite no evidence or plausible mechanism to suggest that they might – mobile telephone radio waves cause cancer and therefore they shouldn’t be allowed are equally mad.”

What, apart from the fact that radio waves are a form of radiation (albeit on a substantially different wavelength to gamma rays) and that radiation causes cancer?

I’m not saying that mobiles do cause cancer, by the way, but there is a plausible causation path actually.

DK

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