Getting Risk Right

Figure 2.1	Association between an exposure and a disease.
Figure 2.2	Any association we study is embedded in a thicket of other correlations.
Figure 2.3	“Correlation globe” showing correlations among environmental pollutants and clinical variables.
Figure 2.4	“Today’s Random Medical News”
Figure 3.1	Interactions between scientific findings and the different communities that use them.
Figure 3.2	“When your only tool is a trebuchet, every problem looks like a siege.”
Figure 4.1	The electromagnetic spectrum.
Figure 4.2	Number of wireless subscribers and brain cancer incidence in the United States, 1977–2012.
Figure 5.1	Chemical structures of several compounds with differing estrogenic potencies.
Figure 6.1	Map showing distribution of Balkan endemic nephropathy regions.
Figure 7.1	Map of subequatorial Africa showing areas with Burkitt’s lymphoma.
Figure 7.2	Cervical cancer mortality by country.
Figure 7.3	HPV DNA prevalence in different regions of the world.
Figure 7.4	Phylogenetic tree showing 170 HPV types.