  It is argued that, contrary to conventional wisdom, no trustworthy universal
self-force/radiative corrections to the Lorentz force equation, can be derived
from the basic tenets of classical electrodynamics. This concords with the
apparent randomness observed in quantum mechanical scattering experiments and
with the absence of any experimental support for such universality. In a recent
paper [11], the statistical effect of radiative corrections to the motion of
charged bodies has been derived from the basic tenets and does take a universal
form, described by quantum mechanical wave equations -- again conforming with
experiment. As that derivation assumes nothing about the size, mass or
composition of the body, it is conjectured that quantum mechanics is the
appropriate framework for dealing also with radiative corrections to the motion
of macroscopic bodies.
