I try to make an isolated example to show how difficult the problem of "Knowing" and "Persuasion" is in the personal domain.
Let us look at this question:
is living next to power lines dangerous?
It is established scientifically that non-ionizing electromagnetic radiations are not carcinogenic (do not lead to cancer or other disease), for example, electromagnetic radiation from power lines and cell phones.
There was a research decades ago that linked living near power lines to blood cancer. This research however later was shown to be invalid.
I am an electrical engineer by education and my wife is a physics graduate so both of us should be able to follow the reasoning fairly... (read more)
I try to make an isolated example to show how difficult the problem of "Knowing" and "Persuasion" is in the personal domain.
Let us look at this question:
It is established scientifically that non-ionizing electromagnetic radiations are not carcinogenic (do not lead to cancer or other disease), for example, electromagnetic radiation from power lines and cell phones.
There was a research decades ago that linked living near power lines to blood cancer. This research however later was shown to be invalid.
I am an electrical engineer by education and my wife is a physics graduate so both of us should be able to follow the reasoning fairly... (read more)