Geoffrey Kabat is a cancer epidemiologist and author, who has been on the faculty of the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition to over 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers, he has written on health-related issues in Forbes, Slate, Quillette, and elsewhere.  He has a long-standing interest in the perception of risk and the public’s understanding of science in the area of health and disease.

His books include: Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Everyday Life and the Science of Epidemiology (2008), Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks (2016), and Slava: The Life and Words of a Croatian Jew (2022 — in Croatian) 

Recent articles: “We were wrong to panic about secondhand smoke. A recent study from the American Cancer Society shows a negligible association,” “A groundbreaking pineapple-flavored spray vaccine could prevent urinary tract infections for up to 9 years,” “What does the National Toxicology Program’s cancellation of its $30-dollar animal study tell us about health risks from cell phones?” “Robert Kemp Adair — Notes on a Friendship,” “Can coffee drinking prevent Covid infection?” “Twitter/X’s race to the disinformation bottom: Are we losing a valuable forum for rational discussion?” “Clearing out my father’s office,” “Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health,” “Sally Kabat: Works on paper and canvas,” “Viewpoint: Concerned whether pesticides in the environment are safe? Listen to hands-on experts, not ideologues,” “Crucial misrepresentations about glyphosate continue to threaten agriculture,” “The Guardian and Carey Gillam join long list of activists who misrepresent the science of glyphosate and exaggerate the risk of pesticides,” “Unraveling the mystery of who gets lung cancer — and why,” “Remembering the Jewish Yugoslavia that the Nazis destroyed,”“Face to face with the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter project,”“Sperm count culture war,” “Glyphosate on trial: In an ‘unequal contest’ between science and emotion, can evidence overcome pesticide-cancer fears?” “Coffee reduces the risk of heart failure? What are we to make of a new study based on A.I.?” “Sperm count culture war: Science discussion about declining male fertility yet another victim of post-modernist political correctness,” “The glyphosate debacle: How a misleading study and gullible reporters helped fuel a cancer scare” (part 1), “‘Symptom of a widespread problem’: Misleading glyphosate-cancer study raises questions about ideological zeal in science” (part 2), “On recent meta-analyses of exposure to glyphosate and risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” "Who’s afraid of Roundup?”  “Two faces of meta-analysis,” “In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Daniel Defoe’s account of London’s bubonic plague offers a shock of recognition.”

Recent podcast: “Bad science in the headlines—Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat explains how to spot flawed research on Google News” with Cameron English and Kevin Folta.