The pro-Taser machine has barfed-out [LINK] four more 'studies' that purport to demonstrate taser safety. All four studies have Dr. Jeffrey Ho listed as an author.
Who is Ho? [LINK]
There seems to be enough Ho-Taser connection that taser-critics will dismiss anything he is involved with out-of-hand. Some of the other author(s) are connected with Santa Barbara Police Department.
See also: [LINK]
Also, review what Dr. Chambers said on studies with inadequate sample size [LINK].
If an experiment is structured from the outset with an inadequate sample size (by people with letters after their name that should know better), then you need to ask: 'What is the true purpose of this study? The sample size is obviously too low to prove anything about the risk, so why was this study undertaken and what is the true motivation?'
Answer: Nifty press release, ever-growing pile (*) of flawed studies.
(* In science, unlike Stalin's Red Army, quantity does NOT have a quality all it's own.)
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