Checking Fact Checkers: MBFC’s Reliance on a Now Removed FDA Page @MBFC_News
RF Safe criticizes Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) for rating it “medium credibility,” arguing MBFC relied on an FDA webpage that was later changed/redirected and on a Harvard T.H. Chan School commentary. The post claims the FDA removed categorical reassurance language about cell phone safety and frames this as undermining MBFC’s critique. It also asserts that non-thermal mechanisms and animal findings support RF Safe’s precautionary stance, while characterizing MBFC’s sources as “opinion” rather than data.
Key points
- RF Safe argues MBFC’s January 8 assessment relied on an FDA page titled “Do Cell Phones Pose a Health Hazard?” that later changed/redirected, which RF Safe says makes MBFC’s critique “obsolete.”
- The post claims the FDA removed or “scrubbed” categorical reassurance language and now emphasizes statutory duties and ongoing monitoring rather than broad safety assurances.
- RF Safe disputes MBFC’s use of a Harvard T.H. Chan School piece, describing it as non-peer-reviewed commentary aligned with a “thermal-only” narrative.
- The article asserts that the broader scientific record includes non-thermal mechanisms (e.g., oxidative stress, genotoxicity signals) and animal findings that warrant concern.
- RF Safe rejects accusations of selective citation, pointing to its described “S4–Mito–Spin framework” as incorporating null studies as boundary conditions.
- The post calls on MBFC to update RF Safe’s credibility rating and “correct the record.”
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