(Free) Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks
• Geoffrey Kabat •
| #438000 in Books | Kabat Geoffrey C | 2016-11-22 | Original language:English | 9.10 x1.00 x6.10l,.0 | File Name: 023116646X | 272 pages | Getting Risk Right Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks
||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Makes a valuable contribution on a difficult topic|By Robert E. Tarone|In an influential paper published in 2005 Dr. John Ioannidis concluded that most published research findings in the medical literature are false. His conclusion that most published findings are false has not been refuted, but neither has the knowledge of this dismal conclusion appeared to have had a bene||Geoffrey Kabat's vital, wide-ranging book cannot have arrived at a more fortuitous time. As individuals and societies, we are constantly asked to gauge risks―and we often do so hastily or irrationally, with grave consequences. In Getting Risk Right,
Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? Is the HPV vaccine safe? We depend on science and medicine as never before, yet there is widespread misinformation and confusion, amplified by the media, regarding what influences our health. In Getting Risk Right, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works―and sometimes doesn'tâ...
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