I bought this book after listening to a podcast. Dr. Davis presented a few interesting points, and that was enough to make me more careful about electromagnetic radiation from my gadgets.
However, there's a lot of things that she could do to improve the credibility of this book, such as
- The mentioning that C. elegans can regenerate its body after being cut in half. This is INCORRECT. Perhaps she is referring to flat worms, not round worms. I have personally cut several C. elegans worms in half in the lab and never seen a single one regenerate into two worms. Only flat worms (planaria) regenerate. C. elegans don't. Now, this makes me question her true understanding of the topic altogether, especially when she also gets other basic facts in Physics wrong.
- I was looking specifically for facts about cell phone irradiation and effects on health, not all the irrelevant history and science stories. She went on for 2 chapters about the history of cell phones, from car phones to the first prototype, or even mentioning that it takes agarose gels to see DNA. These belong in science history books of their own, not in a book about the harm of cell phone radiations. One also doesn't need to know that a researcher's funding had dried up and someone volunteered to do this research in order to reach a certain results which could imply that cell phone radiation is harmful. She simply has to choose whether she wants to write a novel or an informative book, because even stories in the same chapter are all jumbled together in odd ways that do not make a good novel.
As someone who is pro holistic health and a science educator, I am disappointed with this book.
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