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Is public policy (and especially public health) to be based on solid science, or is it to be based on the precautionary principle? Is it ethical to forbid, regulate, obligate and tax on the grounds of “just in case”, or on the grounds of scientifically indemonstrable statistics and epidemiology? And how far can we push this envelope?

Science, Politics and Ethics: the case of Environmental Tobacco Smoke | Gio Batta Gori
Article Published: 1993/09/17

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: J. Clin Epidemiol Vol. 47, No 4, pp. 325-334, 1994

Keywords: Gori, epidemiology, ethics, policy

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Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Coronary Heart Syndrome: Absence of an Association | Gio Batta Gori
Article Published: 1994/09/14

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 21, 281-295 (1995)

Keywords: Gori, epidemiology, coronary, heart, association

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Everything is Dangerous: A Controversy | S. Stanley Young
Article Published: 2008/06/07

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: www.NISS.org

Keywords: danger, controversy, statistics, epidemiology, junk, science, Young

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Inconsistency between workplace and spousal studies of environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer | Maurice E. Levois, Maxwell W, Layard
Article Published: 1994/06/03

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Regilatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 19, 309-316

Keywords: inconsistencey, workplace, spousal

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“Nicotine Nazis strike again”: a brief analysis of the use of Nazi rhetoric in attacking tobacco control advocacy | Nick K Schneider, Stanton A Glantz. Preface by Robert Proctor
Article Published: 2008

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Funding Source: National Cancer Institute (grants CA-113710 and CA-87472)
Published By: Tobacco Control October 2008 Vol 17 No 5

Keywords: Schneider, Glantz, Proctor, Nazis, Fascists, totalitarianism, tobacco control, epidemiology

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Stoking the Rigged Terror of Secondhand Smoke | Gio Batta Gori
Article Published: 2007

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Regulation, Spring 2007

Keywords: Gori, epidemiology, ethics, policy, fraud

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Dimensional errors of metaphorical measurements. Can they be resolved? | Gio Batta Gori
Article Published: 2006

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association, International Journal of Epidemiology

Keywords: Gori, epidemiology, dimensional, risk

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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False | John P. A. Ioannidis
Article Published: 2005

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: PLoS Medicine, August 2005, Volume 2, Issue 8

Keywords: Ioannidis, findings, epidemiology

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Policy against Science: The Case of Environmental Tobacco Smoke | Gio Batta Gori
Article Published: 1994/02/21

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Risk Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 15

Keywords: Gori, epidemiology, ethics, policy, fraud

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Science, Imaginable Risks, and Public Policy: Anatomy of a Mirage | Gio Batta Gori
Article Published: 1996/02/15

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Significance: Articles and Dissertations

Published By: Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 23, 304-311, article No. 0053

Keywords: Gori, epidemiology, mirage, risk

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