Kevin McConway
speaker
100 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2011
last heard Mar 2015
Kevin McConway’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've got an event that's happened that there's a probability of half on the first one, there's a probability of half on the second one that the wife won.
And assuming that there's nothing else going on, that's a probability of a half times a half or a quarter that it was a wife right in both cases.
And a quarter is not terribly unlikely, really.
So it doesn't really convince me of anything.
But I would say that being a husband rather than a wife.
They're not in the Cigarettes League.
I mean, they just can't be all we know.
They classified the radiation that comes from mobile phones as being possibly carcinogenic to humans.
And they hadn't previously pronounced on...
whether that sort of radiation was likely to cause cancer.
So there was something new there.
But what they were only saying was that they had looked at the existing evidence and they decided that there was a possibility that it caused cancer in humans.
Well, it possibly means they think there might be a risk greater than zero.
It really is quite a long way removed from, oh, we're definitely going to finish you off.
Certainly, there are a lot of things which appear on the list which are known to be harmful for other reasons.
Petrol exhaust fumes.
Petrol exhaust fumes is one.
Exhaust fumes sound like terribly scary stuff.
but they're not normally considered scary because they cause cancer.
Actually, you're not quite right to say they're roughly equivalent in their cancer risk.
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