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Viewpoint: Big Tech-Federal government conspiracy or sound science? A government agency just canceled its $30 million dollar study designed to tell us whether cell phones can cause cancer

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Since the introduction of cell phones en masse in the 1990s, a small but vociferous faction of health advocates has ...
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Can coffee drinking prevent COVID infection?

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Coffee has undergone a dramatic rehabilitation since it was designated as a “possible” bladder carcinogen by the International Agency for ...
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Twitter/X’s race to the disinformation bottom: Are we losing a valuable forum for rational discussion?

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While many users are fleeing Twitter/X in disgust at the turn it has taken toward encouraging the spread of conspiracy ...
Unraveling the mystery of who gets lung cancer and why

Unraveling the mystery of who gets lung cancer and why

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Why do some heavy smokers never get lung cancer? And why do some people who never smoke get lung cancer? ...
Viewpoint: Why do some global cancer research agencies claim that using a cell phone (like drinking Diet Coke with aspartame) poses a cancer risk?

Viewpoint: Why do some global cancer research agencies claim that using a cell phone (like drinking Diet Coke with aspartame) poses a cancer risk?

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Although some people argue that cell phone usage contributes to rising brain cancer rates, analysis of the data shows no ...
Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here's an epidemiologist's checklist to detect over-hyped scares

Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here’s an epidemiologist’s checklist to detect over-hyped scares

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During the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemiology ha assumed an outsized role in the public consciousness. It was pervasive ...
Are endocrine-disrupting chemicals causing a decline in fertility in men? Here's how ideology corrupts evidence-based science

Are endocrine-disrupting chemicals causing a decline in fertility in men? Here’s how ideology corrupts evidence-based science

Attempts to make science conform to ideology have enjoyed a long and dispiriting history. For many centuries, religion was the ...
Viewpoint: 'Health impact of chemicals doubled in last 5 years'? Media misreporting flawed studies misleads the public

Viewpoint: ‘Health impact of chemicals doubled in last 5 years’? Media misreporting flawed studies misleads the public

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“Plastics and pesticides: Health impacts of synthetic chemicals in US products doubled in last 5 years, study finds," a July ...
Viewpoint: Concerned whether pesticides in the environment are safe? Listen to hands-on experts, not ideologues 

Viewpoint: Concerned whether pesticides in the environment are safe? Listen to hands-on experts, not ideologues 

Few environmental issues are more controversial than the potential danger of pesticides used to tame weeds and disease in crops ...
Crucial misrepresentations about glyphosate continue to threaten agriculture. This scientist explains how the UN agency IARC likely manipulated the data

Crucial misrepresentations about glyphosate continue to threaten agriculture. This scientist explains how the UN agency IARC likely manipulated the data

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, was introduced over forty-five years ago and is the most widely used ...
The Guardian and Carey Gillam join long list of activists who misrepresent the science of glyphosate and exaggerate the risk of pesticides

The Guardian and Carey Gillam join long list of activists who misrepresent the science of glyphosate and exaggerate the risk of pesticides

Within hours after journalist Carey Gillam’s article in The Guardian reported that the US Centers for Disease Control had found ...
Remembering Auschwitz and the 1.1 million people  who died there

Remembering Auschwitz and the 1.1 million people who died there

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The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place ...
Podcast: Bad science in the headlines—Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat explains how to spot flawed research on Google News

Podcast: Bad science in the headlines—Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat explains how to spot flawed research on Google News

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A just-published study found that consuming two or more sugar-sweetened beverages in a day is linked to a doubling of ...
Viewpoint: Advocacy disguised as journalism? Meet Carey Gillam, the prolific purveyor of crop biotechnology and agri-chemical disinformation

Viewpoint: Advocacy disguised as journalism? Meet Carey Gillam, the prolific purveyor of crop biotechnology and agri-chemical disinformation

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When it comes to science, how much do media narratives influence public opinion and policy? The answer is, a lot ...
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Viewpoint: Will 5G harm you? Activist groups succeed in stirring conspiracy health risk phobias, as New York State legislature prepares to debate ‘growing evidence’ of harm

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Two bills were recently introduced in the New York State legislature (in the Assembly and in the Senate) to establish ...
Glyphosate on trial: In an 'unequal contest' between science and emotion, can evidence overcome pesticide-cancer fears?

Glyphosate on trial: In an ‘unequal contest’ between science and emotion, can evidence overcome pesticide-cancer fears?

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Recently, I was asked to speak about the weedkiller glyphosate on Radio Colombia. As is often the case with media ...
Viewpoint: New York Times' Nicholas Kristof echoes scientifically dubious fears about falling sperm counts and ‘endocrine disrupting’ chemicals

Viewpoint: New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof echoes scientifically dubious fears about falling sperm counts and ‘endocrine disrupting’ chemicals

The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has shown an admirable commitment over the years towards highlighting under-reported stories. He fights ...
Coffee reduces risk of heart failure? What are we to make of a new study based on artificial intelligence (AI)

Coffee reduces risk of heart failure? What are we to make of a new study based on artificial intelligence (AI)

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When I was starting out in epidemiology in the early 1980’s I attended a lecture by Thomas Pearson, a cardiologist, ...
Misleading glyphosate-cancer study Part 2: 'Symptom of a widespread problem'—Concerns about ideological activism in science research and communications

Misleading glyphosate-cancer study Part 2: ‘Symptom of a widespread problem’—Concerns about ideological activism in science research and communications

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For the better part of five years, a coalition of environmental groups and tort lawyers (aided by the mainstream press) ...
The glyphosate debacle: How a misleading study about the alleged risks of the weedkiller Roundup and gullible reporters helped fuel a cancer scare

The glyphosate debacle: How a misleading study about the alleged risks of the weedkiller Roundup and gullible reporters helped fuel a cancer scare

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As biotech giant Bayer prepares to spend $10 billion settling thousands of lawsuits alleging its weedkiller Roundup (and its active ...
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Podcast: Glyphosate boosts cancer risk 41%? How a questionable claim from a flawed study went viral

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As a rule, scientific research is relegated to obscure technical journals and goes unnoticed by most people. Every few months, ...
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In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Daniel Defoe’s account of London’s 1665 bubonic plague offers a shock of recognition

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Pandemics have punctuated recorded history going back to ancient Greece and Egypt. However, the novel coronavirus pandemic is unfolding in ...
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Podcast: The misused meta-analysis—How statistical trickery yields impressive but bogus study results

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A meta-analysis allows researchers to compile data from many smaller studies and, hopefully, find more conclusive answers to critical public ...
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Viewpoint: Coronavirus journal—Anatomy of a pandemic

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The first case of what we now know to be COVID-19 was diagnosed on November 17, 2019 in Hubei province ...
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Viewpoint: We’ll learn a lot from the coronavirus outbreak, but it will be ‘paid for in blood’

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The coronavirus outbreak, now a pandemic spreading at an exponential rate throughout the world, is upending our routines, certainties and ...
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Remember the questionable study claiming glyphosate boosts cancer risk 41%? Lead author reasserts her claim, EPA refutes it, and we take a second look

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Sheppard and her co-authors are intent on favoring data that appears to support the existence of a risk from glyphosate ...
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Viewpoint: How the glyphosate-cancer controversy became a moral crusade—and a threat to scientific progress

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Sometimes the clear weight of evidence coupled with a dose of common sense is enough to show what’s right ...
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