The precautionary principle and scientific research are not antithetical.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A precautionary public health protection strategy for the possible risk of childhood leukaemia from exposure to power frequency magnetic fields.BMC public health · 2010
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2. Seven deadly sins of environmental epidemiology and the virtues of precaution.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2008
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3. The Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe: unacknowledged health detriment.Environmental health perspectives · 2007
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4. From general policy to legal rule: aspirations and limitations of the precautionary principle.Environmental health perspectives · 2003
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5. Risk management and precaution: insights on the cautious use of evidence.Environmental health perspectives · 2003
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6. The precautionary principle in environmental science.Environmental health perspectives · 2001
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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