Comments of the Battelle investigators concerning the study, made in their monthly reports, were:
November 7, 1977: "To date, we have found only two potentially adverse effects of over 380 parameters we have examined. The prostatitis we observed in our first series of experiments has been replicated. A third replicate of this experiment is in progress."
January 30,1978: " there are no statistically significant differences between groups."
"These recent findings by the Task Leaker are sufficiently important to justify updating and revising Chapter VII (Pathology, pp. 81-88) of our semi-annual report. This chapter, as now written, shows the results of incompleted experiments and leaves the prostatitis question open. The data could be misconstrued by certain parties to support their claims that electric fields produce adverse biological effects. Revision of the chapter with our recent results will minimize the risk of abuse by others."