Geoffrey Kabat
Geoffrey Kabat is an epidemiologist and author, most recently, of Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks. He is on the Board of Directors for the Genetic Literacy Project.
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Black Holes: Now With No Singularity
Albert Einstein has been proven right many times but some things his equations predicted have yet to be shown to be science and yet remain part of the popular consciousness about science.
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Significance Of Counting Experiments With Background Uncertainty
In the course of Statistics for Data Analysis I give every spring to PhD students in Physics I spend some time discussing the apparently trivial problem of evaluating the significance of an excess of…
Journalists Grieve Death Of Forensic Science Commission
The National Commission on Forensic Science was dissolved by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a decisive action that brought an end to a highly decorated body of professionals, but one that was…
The Alternative To Opioids May Come From Tasmanian Waters
There is a war on opioids and legitimate pain patients have been caught in the stigma of recreational abuse. High-profile class action lawsuits against drug manufacturers are going to create an "icy…