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Risk | John Adams
Outline: Risk management is people management. The current obsession with risk – and protection from risk – is analyzed in this rare book that is no longer available and that we make available again online for our readers. The author John Adams examines the two opposing definers: the cultural theory…
Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness | Stephen J. Barrett, Ronald E. Gots
Outline: Dissent means anathema, and accusations of corruption. Dissenting on the never-demonstrated effects of passive smoking means being stooges of Big Tobacco; dissenting on the never-demonstrated anthropogenic causation of global warming means being stooges of Big Oil; needless to say, dissenting…
Fear of living | Tana Wells
Outline: Genocide continues and epidemics rage in all too many parts of the world. Shoppers in Sarajevo have been risking their lives simply trying to cross the street. Few until recently have ventured out of the pub in Ulster for a friendly beer. Yet, the richest and healthiest nations are preoccupied with…
Health, Lifestyle and Environment: Countering the Panic | Digby Anderson, Peter Berger, Robert Browning, Peter Finch, Raymond Johnstone, Irving Kristol, James Le Fanu, Mark Mills, Petr Skrabanek, Aaron Wildavsky
Outline: Suggests that the nation is gripped by a "health panic" generated by often contradictory advice from researchers.
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Virtually Safe Cigarettes: Reviewing an Opportunity Once tragically Rejected | Gio Batta Gori
Outline: Whatever happened to the search for a safer cigarette? People under the age of forty are probably too young to remember, but until the late 1970s, serious research was conducted in the United States into how to reduce smoking risks through the analysis of and engineering of cigarettes. The Smoking and…
Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law | Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, Peter W. Huber
Outline: Phantom Risk surveys a dozen scientific issues that have led to public controversy and litigation — among them, miscarriage from the use of video display terminals, birth defects in children whose mothers used the drug Bendectin, and cancer from low-intensity magnetic fields and from airborne…
Smokers' Paradox | Eray Oge, MD
Outline: A new e-novel about the smoking wars by Eray Oge, MD is now being promoted on the internet.
Pleasure and Quality of Life | David M. Warburton, Neil Sherwood
Outline: Pleasure is a personal experience, but it is also a common experience, part of the emotional vocabulary of all cultures. All of us have opinions and clear moral views about the place of pleasure in a well-lived life, what form it should take, and with what enthusiasm it should be sought. In this book…
Microbes and Malignancy: Infection as a Cause of Human Cancer | Julie Parsonnet, editor
Outline: This book has nothing to do with the smoking persecution. The book proposes, with solid speculative foundations, that cancer is an infection. This theory has advanced tremendously among serious scientists in recent years. Reviewer Ganem concludes: "Examples like this reveal how much we still have…
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology | Geoffrey C. Kabat
Outline: As many of you know, Kabat was the co-author with James Enstrom of the study Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98), already present on our Scientific Portal…
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