Alleged ‘misconceptions’ distort perceptions of environmental cancer risks
Open Access
- 9 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The FASEB Journal
- Vol. 15 (1) , 195-203
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.99-1056com
Abstract
In a series of papers, Ames and colleagues allege that the scientific and public health communities have perpetuated a series of ‘misconceptions’ that resulted in inaccurate identification of chemica...Keywords
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