Abstract:
:For more than 40 years, the tobacco industry prevailed in lawsuits brought by injured smokers, despite overwhelming epidemiological evidence that smoking caused lung cancer. Tobacco lawyers were able to create doubt about causation. They sought to persuade jurors that "everybody knew" smoking was harmful but "nobody knows" what causes cancer by recreating in court the scientific debate resolved by the 1964 Surgeon General's Report. The particularistic structure of jury trials combined with the law's mechanistic view of causation enables a defendant to contest virtually any claim concerning disease causation. Despite judicial efforts to eliminate "junk science" from lawsuits, a well-financed defendant may succeed in persuading jurors of the epidemiological equivalent of the proposition that the earth is flat.
journal_name
Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
Givelber D,Strickler Ldoi
10.2105/AJPH.2005.063917subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-01-01 00:00:00pages
33-7issue
1eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048pii
AJPH.2005.063917journal_volume
96pub_type
杂志文章abstract:OBJECTIVES:We sought to test the efficacy of an intervention that was designed to promote social inclusion and commitment to education, in reducing among students health risk behaviors and improving emotional well-being. METHODS:The design was a cluster-randomized trial in 25 secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. ...
journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2004.047399
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Five years after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the mental health of women who had been pregnant and living within 10 miles of Three Mile Island at the time of the accident was similar to that of women from the same area who became pregnant after the accident. Ratings of the development of the two groups of c...
journal_title:American journal of public health
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doi:10.2105/ajph.81.3.384
更新日期:1991-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2004.045807
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1993-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.094128
更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.178301
更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303198
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.75.4.405
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更新日期:1994-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.82.2.215
更新日期:1992-02-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.2105/ajph.87.6.979
更新日期:1997-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.89.4.553
更新日期:1999-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304592
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.73.12.1370
更新日期:1983-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.71.9.1021
更新日期:1981-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305325
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.81.suppl.25
更新日期:1991-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
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更新日期:1990-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2018-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::We evaluated the prevalence and incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in 3,837 inmates of a state prison system. Ninety-two (2.4 percent) were HIV-seropositive. The highest proportion of HIV-seropositive inmates was found among Blacks (5.4 percent), females, and those 30 years of age or older. HIV-...
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更新日期:1990-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304755
更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
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更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1991-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2105/ajph.74.8.799
更新日期:1984-08-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.2105/ajph.75.11.1303
更新日期:1985-11-01 00:00:00