Their results appeared in two publications, and their interpretations were publicized in a third report. See Saffer, J.D. and Thurston, S.J.: Cancer risk and electromagnetic fields, Nature 375:22, 1995; Saffer, J.D. and Thurston, S.J.: Short exposures to 60-Hz magnetic fields do not alter MYC expression or NHL60 or Daudi cells, Radiat. Res. 144:18-25, 1995; Taubes, G.: Another blow weakens the Emf-cancer link, Science 269:1816-1817, 1995.

Saffer and Thurston strongly claimed that EMF exposure produced no effects on transcription, but that was not true because their data showed that variance was affected significantly by the EMFs. F = 4.95, P < 0.05. For further details see A.A. Marino: Comments on "Short exposures to 60 Hz magnetic fields do not alter MYC expression in HL60 or Daudi cells, Radiat. Res. 145:513-515, 1996.


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