George Davey Smith
@mendelrandom.bsky.social
Time expired epidemiologist
Now safe in the knowledge that A Windsor won’t be drinking it 🤣
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Now safe in the knowledge that A Windsor won’t be drinking it 🤣
that's great Uku, I hadn't seen that!
October 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
that's great Uku, I hadn't seen that!
Reposted by George Davey Smith
Met @mendelrandom.bsky.social at a pub in Bristol after my talk yesterday to chat about causality, ratio variables, and the state of Epidemiology in Europe.
Behind him, on the bookshelf, was an old copy of Mendel's Principles of Heredity. A remarkable coincidence that required a photograph!
Behind him, on the bookshelf, was an old copy of Mendel's Principles of Heredity. A remarkable coincidence that required a photograph!
October 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Met @mendelrandom.bsky.social at a pub in Bristol after my talk yesterday to chat about causality, ratio variables, and the state of Epidemiology in Europe.
Behind him, on the bookshelf, was an old copy of Mendel's Principles of Heredity. A remarkable coincidence that required a photograph!
Behind him, on the bookshelf, was an old copy of Mendel's Principles of Heredity. A remarkable coincidence that required a photograph!
sorry the 4th commentary link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research - European Journal of Epidemiology
Sir Richard Peto is well known for proposing puzzling paradoxes in cancer biology—some more well-known than others. In a 1984 piece, Peto proposed that after decades of molecular biology in cancer res...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
sorry the 4th commentary link.springer.com/article/10.1...
8/8 on why this is so and what could be done to advance this situation. There are 4 other commentaries from contemporary leaders in the many fields Peto covered in 5 pages /fin
link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...;
link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...;
Peto’s paradox revisited: black box vs mechanistic approaches to understanding the roles of mutations and promoting factors in cancer - European Journal of Epidemiology
European Journal of Epidemiology -
link.springer.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
8/8 on why this is so and what could be done to advance this situation. There are 4 other commentaries from contemporary leaders in the many fields Peto covered in 5 pages /fin
link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...;
link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...; link.springer.com/article/10.1...;
7/n with @Lyonpaul and Bert Hofman here we reflect on the 40 subsequent years, which have confirmed many of Peto's speculations, whilst (sadly) the high proportion of cancer this is preventable in principle but not in practice remains, we speculate/ cont
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Chance, ignorance, and the paradoxes of cancer: Richard Peto on developing preventative strategies under uncertainty - European Journal of Epidemiology
During the early 1980s both cancer biology and epidemiological methods were being transformed. In 1984 the leading cancer epidemiologist Richard Peto – who, in 1981, had published the landmark Causes ...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
7/n with @Lyonpaul and Bert Hofman here we reflect on the 40 subsequent years, which have confirmed many of Peto's speculations, whilst (sadly) the high proportion of cancer this is preventable in principle but not in practice remains, we speculate/ cont
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
6/n between initiators and promoters of cancer, highlights the large proportion of cancer that is preventable in principle but wasn't yet preventable in practice, and offered a coherent defence of "black box" epidemiology. Here it is again: link.springer.com/article/10.1... /cont
The need for Ignorance in cancer research - European Journal of Epidemiology
European Journal of Epidemiology -
link.springer.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
6/n between initiators and promoters of cancer, highlights the large proportion of cancer that is preventable in principle but wasn't yet preventable in practice, and offered a coherent defence of "black box" epidemiology. Here it is again: link.springer.com/article/10.1... /cont