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| Title |
Warning: Anti-tobacco activism may be hazardous to epidemiologic science
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, October 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-5573-4-13 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carl V Phillips |
| Abstract |
This commentary accompanies two articles submitted to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations in response to a call for papers about threats to epidemiology or epidemiologists from organized political interests. Contrary to our expectations, we received no submissions that described threats from industry or government; all were about threats from anti-tobacco activists. The two we published, by James E. Enstrom and Michael Siegel, both deal with the issue of environmental tobacco smoke. This commentary adds a third story of attacks on legitimate science by anti-tobacco activists, the author's own experience. These stories suggest a willingness of influential anti-tobacco activists, including academics, to hurt legitimate scientists and turn epidemiology into junk science in order to further their agendas. The willingness of epidemiologists to embrace such anti-scientific influences bodes ill for the field's reputation as a legitimate science. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 36 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 3% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |
| Comoros | 1 | 3% |
| Denmark | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 18 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 31 | 86% |
| Scientists | 2 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 9 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 8 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 2 | 22% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 1 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 1 | 11% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 3 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 56% |
| Unknown | 4 | 44% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 January 2024.
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#1,070,079
of 25,394,764 outputs
Outputs from Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations
#3
of 35 outputs
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#1,946
of 88,730 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,394,764 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 35 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.7. This one scored the same or higher as 32 of them.
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