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Kenneth Alexander Brownlee, Ph.D. was a statistician at the University of Chicago. He testified at 1969 hearings.

Biography

Kenneth A. Browlness was a researcher and Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago who openly challenged the 1964 Surgeon General's report. In a series of articles published in newspapers around the U.S. circa Nov. 20, 1965, Brownlee said "the Surgeon General's report failed to prove smoking is a cause of cancer." He published an article in the Journal of the American Statistical Association circa 1965 which supported the "genetic theory" of causation (the idea that smoking is a symptom of a type of person, rather than a causal factor of disease.) Brownlee gave permission to the Tobacco Institute to use this article in Congressional hearings. Here are some of the newspaper articles quoting Brownlee: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=wpi94e00&fmt=pdf&ref=results

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