The Secret History of the War on CancerBasic Books, 20 nov 2007 - 528 páginas Why has the "War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes -- tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the general environment? This war has targeted the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, failing to address well-known cancer causes. As epidemiologist Devra Davis shows in this superbly researched expose, this is no accident. The War on Cancer has followed the commercial interests of industries that generated a host of cancer-causing materials and products. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain that is being reclaimed through efforts to green health care and the environment. |
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... things that cause cancer has always been hampered whenever nations have traded metaphorical wars for real ones. If some scientists had figured out nearly a century ago that the world around us affects the chance that we will develop ...
... things that cause cancer has always been hampered whenever nations have traded metaphorical wars for real ones. If some scientists had figured out nearly a century ago that the world around us affects the chance that we will develop ...
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... things much smaller than the tiniest crab—things we could not have seen or imagined even a decade ago. Couldn't cancer have been there for eons, disguised as ordinary life? Some of the growth in cancer comes about just because more of ...
... things much smaller than the tiniest crab—things we could not have seen or imagined even a decade ago. Couldn't cancer have been there for eons, disguised as ordinary life? Some of the growth in cancer comes about just because more of ...
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... things happen to specific groups of people located in a certain area at a certain time.Why have so many types of cancer not known to be tied with smoking increased from decade to decade in industrial countries and in those areas of the ...
... things happen to specific groups of people located in a certain area at a certain time.Why have so many types of cancer not known to be tied with smoking increased from decade to decade in industrial countries and in those areas of the ...
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... thing. Blood is one of those things that we need the right amount of at the right times and places. Agents that stimulate channels of blood to develop in places where they are not needed can provide unwelcome routes for cell growth that ...
... thing. Blood is one of those things that we need the right amount of at the right times and places. Agents that stimulate channels of blood to develop in places where they are not needed can provide unwelcome routes for cell growth that ...
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... things that could have helped a lot of people back then.They kept reports on the hazards of smoking locked up a lot longer than they should have.They delayed getting the Pap smear in use.They had a lot to be embarrassed about, and they ...
... things that could have helped a lot of people back then.They kept reports on the hazards of smoking locked up a lot longer than they should have.They delayed getting the Pap smear in use.They had a lot to be embarrassed about, and they ...
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Phantom Collaborators | 73 |
Fear Sells | 107 |
Making Goods out of Bads | 141 |
Saving Cigarettes | 169 |
The Good War | 199 |
Cancer Doctoring | 223 |
Deconstructing Cancer Statistics | 245 |
Doctoring Evidence | 267 |
The Harshest of Schoolmasters | 297 |
No Safe Place | 329 |
Chasing Tales | 363 |
Presumed Innocent 391 Epilogue Mothers Last | 437 |
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Página 51 - It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. . . . Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
Página 67 - Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecution on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
Página 193 - The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
Página 191 - All scientific work is incomplete — whether it be observational or experimental. All .scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time...
Página 329 - In the next 10 years we shall increase our wealth by 50 percent. The profound question is : Does this mean we will be 50 percent richer in a real sense, 50 percent better off, 50 percent happier? Or does it mean that in the year 1980 the President standing in this place will look back on a decade in which 70 percent of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic, suffocated by smog, poisoned by water, deafened by noise, and terrorized by crime?
Página 67 - CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
Página 155 - We accept an interest in people's health as a basic responsibility, paramount to every other consideration in our business.
Página v - Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And vanity comes along and asks the question. "Is it popular?" But conscience asks the question, "Is it right?
Página 162 - The cigarette industry has been artfully maintaining that cigarette advertising has nothing to do with total sales. This is complete and utter nonsense. The industry knows it is nonsense. I am always amused by the suggestion that advertising, a function that has been shown to increase consumption of virtually every other product, somehow miraculously fails to work for tobacco products.
Página 329 - Clean air, clean water, open spaces — these should once again be the birthright of every American. If we act now, they can be. We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.