#893: Transcript link to the Larry King program on cell phones
From Libby Kelly and Lloyd Morgan
Transcript
LARRY KING LIVE CNN
Is There a Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer?
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/27/lkl.01.html
Transcript LARRY KING LIVE
CNN LARRY KING LIVE
Dale Cochran’s First Interview Since the Death of Her Husband Johnnie; Is There a Link Between Cell Phones and Cancer?
Aired May 27, 2008 – 21:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight, cell phones and cancer — is there a link?
Johnnie Cochran’s widow speaks publicly for the first time since her husband’s death. A brain tumor killed the famed attorney and father of three at the age of 67.
Were cell phones to blame?
For the full transcript go to the link:
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/27/lkl.01.html
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AND from Lloyd Morgan:
Dr. Khurana, the Australian Neurosurgeon on the Larry King has asked me to send his clarifications (see below).
Best to all,
Lloyd
In a message dated 5/28/2008 2:54:31 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, brain-surgery@hotmail.com writes:
Lloyd, some errors to note in the transcript: Please pass this on to all concerned. I have notified CNN.
1. The most notable error: Larry makes the following statement (about 3/4 way down the transcript), and it is me (KHURANA) who responds NOT THUN:
KING: One of the problems, Dr. Khurana, is almost everybody has a cell phone. So you can’t run a comparison like tobacco and lung cancer, the user and the nonuser. Everyone is a user.
THUN: You are absolutely right. That is one of the problems with the Interphone study, which is the World Health Organization study between 13 countries. You are right. The control group uses cell phones. They may be using cordless phones as well, which we also know are risk factors based on data. So here you’ve got a control group that uses it, and you have a user group that uses it. As Dr. Gupta has pointed out, their quantification of what constitutes regular use is itself quite alarming.
2. The word “prodded” is used twice in the transcript, it shoud in fact be “parotid”
3. Finally, towards the end of ths session: “Sedeski (ph)” should be “Sadetzki” while “Lacola (ph)” should be “Lahkola”.
KING: Quickly, doctor, because I’m running short of time. Go ahead.
KHURANA: OK, Sedesky (ph) from Israel, the Israel arm of Interphone, this is what she says: “a positive dose response trend was found. Our results suggest an association between cellular phone use and prodded gland tumors.”
Lacola (ph) from Finland, Interphone group, “for more than 10 years, of mobile phone use reported on the side of the head where the tumor was located, an increased odds ratio of borderline statistical significance was found.”
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