Geoffrey Kabat
Geoffrey C. Kabat is an American
Scientific work
Over a forty-year career, Kabat has studied a wide range of lifestyle, clinical, and environmental exposures in relation to cancer and other diseases, and mortality. Major topics of interest include: smoking, alcohol consumption, diet and nutrition, endogenous and exogenous hormones, obesity and height, the metabolic syndrome, physical activity, electromagnetic fields, and sleep.[4]
In 2003, Kabat, who then worked at the
Books
Kabat is the author of the book Hyping Health Risks, published in 2008 by Columbia University Press. The book examines several alleged environmental health risks, such as the proposed link between artificial chemicals and cancer, and concludes that these risks have been distorted.[15] A 2017 Skeptical Inquirer review says that "Kabat ... helps readers understand relative versus absolute risk, medical research, [and] how pseudoscientific and questionable claims get [mis]reported by news media and activists...."[16]
Terence Hines wrote that Kabat "more than accomplishes" his goals of discovering how it is that extraordinary progress is made solving some problems but little is made solving others and why instances of progress get little attention while scientifically questionable issues get more attention. Hines said of the chapter reviewing the question of whether cell phones cause cancer, it "alone is worth the price of the book."[20]
Kabat wrote another book building on the themes in Hyping Health Risks that was published in 2016.[21]
References
- ^ S2CID 27691890.
- ^ a b "American Cancer Society Condemns Tobacco Industry Study for Inaccurate Use of Data" (PDF) (Press release). American Cancer Society. 2003-05-13. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
- ^ S2CID 74351979.
- ^ Search Results for author Kabat G on PubMed.
- PMID 12750205.
- ^ PMID 17938301.
- ^ Kessler 2006, p. 1383
- ^ Kessler 2006, p. 1412
- PMID 15791022.
- ^ Kessler 2006, p. 1380
- ^ Kessler 2006, pp. 1380–3
- ^ Appeal Ruling, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 22 May 2009
- ^ Altria, Cigarette Makers Lose 'Lights' Ruling Appeal Bloomberg news, 22 May 2009
- ^ U.S. appeals court agrees tobacco companies lied Reuters, 22 May 2009
- Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ "New and Notable". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (2): 60. 2017.
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- ^ Hines, Terence (2017). "Why We Often Get Risks Wrong". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (4): 58–60. Archived from the original on 2018-09-23. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ISSN 0002-9262.
External links
Kessler, Gladys (August 17, 2006). "United States of America v. Philip Morris et al.: Final Opinion of Judge Gladys Kessler" (PDF). United States District Court for the District of Columbia.