Geoffrey C. Kabat

Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat is the author, most recently, of "Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks," and "Slava: The Life and Words of a Croatian Jew" (2022).

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Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship

Reflections on the life and work of a superb scientist, for whom integrity and rigor were paramount.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

12 Jan 2024 · 19 min read

Clearing Out My Father’s Office

Reflections on a vibrant scientific career cut short.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

29 Sep 2023 · 15 min read

Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health

A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

15 Sep 2023 · 20 min read

Remembering the Jewish Yugoslavia that the Nazis Destroyed

The story of how I came to know one of those survivors, and chronicle her life.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

6 Apr 2022 · 12 min read

Face to Face with the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter Project

The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a

Geoffrey C. Kabat

5 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

The Sperm Count Culture War

The authors all but ignore the science to focus on what they believe is more important—the ideological framing of the issue in socio-cultural discourse.

Geoffrey C. Kabat

16 Jun 2021 · 13 min read