49ers substation-EMF theory gets a Science Vs episode, and the man behind it publishes what the show left out

"They asked me for evidence and aired the weakest thing I sent. They interviewed three scientists who supported my theory and aired none of them."

— Peter Anthony Cowan

"The pooled analyses that produced the World Health Organization's carcinogen classification found roughly a doubling of childhood leukemia risk above three to four milligauss. That is the number that belongs in that segment, and it is more than ten times below the reading that had just been dismissed as trivial."

— Peter Anthony Cowan

"They spent the episode telling their audience I am not a scientist, and then kept four actual scientists who support the theory off because their argument does not survive otherwise."

— Peter Anthony Cowan

"What the episode presents instead is a man saying "we need more study," which reads as a hedge, an open-ended request for the benefit of the doubt. It is the opposite of a hedge."

— Peter Anthony Cowan

"A thread I posted on X reached twenty-two million people. A guy with a gaussmeter and a brand-new Substack obligated a Pultizer prize winning program to spend an hour on a question about player health, that is considered fringe enough that most media operations won't touch it. Pablo Torre Finds Out could not ignore it. So Science Vs came in and ran a "debunking" operation instead of an investigation."

— Peter Anthony Cowan