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Tag Archives: cancer
Forced to Read
I had an email from Rich White today, asking me if I’d seen something Chris Snowdon had written about. Chris wrote: I’ve come across a very well-written and incisive PDF… Don’t be put off by the title (‘The Plain Truth … Continue reading
Auerbach’s Beagles
The following introduction and attached pdf file is a guest post by Mikef317 from New York on Auerbach’s Beagles, published as received. It’s really a belated contribution to the CATCH debate that took place some 15 months ago. Please note … Continue reading
Imaginative with Numbers
One of the most enigmatic figures (for me at least) in the smoking controversy is the historian Robert N. Proctor, author in 1999 of The Nazi War on Cancer, which became one of my must-buy books when I started to … Continue reading
Cause and Effect
Chris Snowdon reports on the inexplicable failure of Maltese heart attack rates to fall after their smoking ban was introduced: Malta smoking ban fails to stub out heart disease We are shocked over smoking ban results The smoking ban may … Continue reading
The Godfather
I came across this today: When the public hears the term ‘scientist’ we think of someone who is above the fray – who’s disinterested and dispassionate and goes wherever the scientific results happen to lead. This implied neutrality is what … Continue reading
“If the Surgeon General came out today..”
I was listening today to Al Gore speaking in Aspen, Colorado. It was actually quite an interesting discussion they were having about democracy and the internet. At one point a whole bunch of people asked a series of questions. And … Continue reading
Merchants of Doubt
Its seems that Al Gore has been lashing out angrily at climate sceptics. Gore referenced the book “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming” by Naomi Oreskes and … Continue reading
CATCH-17
Rich White again This is likely to be my last post, for the time being at least. The next few weeks are going to be extremely hectic for me and I won’t have time to submit any more posts, except … Continue reading
CATCH-14
Frank Davis writes. In CATCH-4, a week or so back, Chris Snowdon wrote: Since the obvious explanation for this strong, dose-sensitive association is that chronic smoking raises the risk of lung cancer significantly, any defence of smoking as the causative … Continue reading
CATCH-13
Rich White returns. Chris has presented a number of points to be addressed, so this post is somewhat lengthy but I have tried to refrain from over embellishing anything or making unnecessary statements. Also for the sake of brevity I … Continue reading
