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3 weeks ago | 
quillette.com | Geoffrey Kabat |Matt Johnson
During the Senate confirmation hearings earlier this year, it became clear that the man nominated by Donald Trump to become Secretary of Health and Human Services was completely unfit to run America’s leading public-health agency. Now that he has been confirmed, it is time to reckon with the likely consequences of that decision. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. insists he’s not anti-vaccine and that he just wants to ensure that vaccines are safe.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Geoffrey Kabat
In 2003, UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom and I published a study of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)—also called “secondhand smoke” or “passive smoking”—in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Using data from the American Cancer Society’s prospective study of 1 million adults, we concluded that ETS exposure was not associated with increased mortality.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
reason.com | Geoffrey Kabat
In 2003, UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom and I published a study of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)—also called "secondhand smoke" or "passive smoking"—in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Using data from the American Cancer Society's prospective study of 1 million adults, we concluded that ETS exposure was not associated with increased mortality.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
acsh.org | Henry Miller |Geoffrey Kabat
A breakthrough, almost decade-long study of a spray vaccine offers promise for hundreds of millions of women who suffer from urinary tract infections (UTIs) over their lifetimes. The vaccine, called Uromune, was developed by Immunotek, a Spanish-based pharmaceutical company. It has been approved for use in two countries, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and is under review for approval in Canada. It is also available under special-access conditions in 26 countries, but not the US.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Geoffrey Kabat
During the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemiology ha assumed an outsized role in the public consciousness. It was pervasive in the news, as scientists struggled to elucidate both how the virus was being transmitted as well as its likely short- and long-term health effects. Its high profile during the crisis harks back to what epidemiology was in its “heroic” period over the prior century-and-a-half, when disease scourges were a part of everyday life.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Geoffrey Kabat |Henry Miller
A breakthrough almost decade-long study of a spray vaccine offers promise for hundreds of millions of women who suffer from urinary tract infections (UTIs) over their lifetimes. The vaccine, developed by Immunotek, a Spain-based pharmaceutical company, has been approved for use in two countries, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, and is under review for approval in Canada. It is also available under special-access conditions in 26 countries, but not the US.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Geoffrey Kabat
Since the introduction of cell phones en masse in the 1990s, a small but vociferous faction of health advocates has claimed widespread evidence that radiation from cell phones poses serious cancer risks. Those claims are disputed by the World Health Organization, joined by every major global or country-specific oversight agency, including the and the in the United States. But the issue is again in the news.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Roger Bate |Robert Morris |Geoffrey Kabat
On 22 January 2024, Cameroon was the first nation in the world to roll out a routine vaccine for malaria. This age-old scourge still kills over 1,600 children in Africa every day, and, until now, a vaccine has never been available. Vaccines are among the most effective public health measures to combat everything from smallpox to COVID. However, they can be oversold. So, how does this malaria vaccine stack up?
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Geoffrey Kabat |Aaron Sarin |John Lloyd |Tal Fortgang
Robert K. Adair, Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Yale University Sterling Professor Emeritus of Physics died in Hamdenon September 28, 2020 aged 96. ~New Haven Register, October 3, 2020. I. I first met Bob Adair in 2003. At the suggestion of a colleague, I wrote to him regarding the biophysics of human exposure to “extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields” (ELF-EMF or simply EMF).
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
quillette.com | Geoffrey Kabat |Kevin Mims |Tomasz Witkowski
I. Over the past three-and-a-half years, we have been exposed to a more sustained discussion of health risks than possibly at any time in the past century. But as the still-simmering debates over the origins and health impact of SARS-CoV-2 and the vaccines used to contain it demonstrate, we are barraged by pervasive “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Throughout the pandemic, health agencies and authorities have, with the best of intentions, made some terrible missteps.
