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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
Just because newer devices are brighter doesn't mean it was a good idea for the "study" to use full brightness. There is a night mode and if they wanted to study reading different ways at night, night mode should have been used for both.
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It was a good idea if they *intended* to demonstrate that iPad "ereaders" werd not safe for human use.
Kinda like the way cyclamates were "demonstrated" to be unsafe for rat consumption:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_cyclamate#History
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Further research resulted in a 1969 study that found the common 10:1 cyclamate:saccharin mixture to increase the incidence of bladder cancer in rats. The released study was showing that eight out of 240 rats fed a mixture of saccharin and cyclamates, at levels of humans ingesting 350 cans of diet soda per day, developed bladder tumors.[5]
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There is a loonngggg tradition of tailoring experimental parameters to obtain a desired outcome that aligns with funding sources. Whether it be tobacco companies or food nannies it doesn't matter; agendas must be supported, scientific honesty be damned.
The target this time just happens to be Apple rather than a pharmaceutical company.
My guess is ssomebody at Penguin is ticked off at Apple.
