Book: Conspiracy theories of cancer

Abstract

Instead, Davis presents a wide kaleidoscope of observations about her family and friends, the history of chemical carcinogenesis, some insights into ground and water pollution of the environment, a series of individual anecdotes, criticisms, and attacks about the ethical conduct of several senior figures in cancer epidemiology. Davis's account of early research findings on cancer causation and epidemiology seems highly selective, especially when compared to such comprehensive works as Johannes Clemmesen's Statistical Studies in Malignant Neoplasms (1965)- Similarly, her analysis of war-time medical research in Germany lacks the focus and detail of the harrowing report published by Leo J Alexander after the Nuremberg Trials Alexander LJ.