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DDT AND TOBACCO Bate is co-director of Africa Fighting Malaria , a lobby group promoting the use of DDT to control malaria. Documents in the Legacy Tobacco Document Archive show that Bate sought the support of the Tobacco industry to establish Africa Fighting Malaria as part of a strategy to divert resources from efforts by the World Health Organization to reduce smoking. [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/search/basic?fd=0&q=%22Africa+Fighting+malaria%22&df=er&c=at&c=bw&c=ct&c=ll&c=pm&c=rj&c=ti&c=da&c=mg&c=ub&c=mm [http://rabett.blogspot.com/2007/05/original-sin-tobacco-denialism-is.html . BACKGROUND Bate holds a Ph.D., economics from the University Of Cambridge and was previously educated at University College, London and Thames Valley University . He was research analyst for Warburg Securities and Charles Stanley & Co. between 1986 and 1989 and later worked for a range of think tanks and lobby groups, and was also a presenter on the BBC2 program Organic Food: The Modern Myth PASSIVE SMOKING There has been some controversy surrounding a book he attemped to fund in the 1990s. In 1996, Roger Bate approached R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for a grant of £50,000 to fund a book on risk, containing a chapter on passive smoking, but the grant request was denied and the money was never received. (The Tobacco Institute, was however, "involved in" the publication of the book. {Link without Title} ) That same year he wrote the article "Is Nothing Worse Than Tobacco?," for Wall Street Journal and in 1997, the ESEF published ''What Risk? Science, Politics and Public Health'', edited by Roger Bate which included a chapter on passive smoking. GENETIC ENGINEERING Bate is joint author, with Julian Morris of Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment. The IEA website describes the book in the following way : "In the latest ESEF book, ''Fearing Food'', new agricultural and food technologies, including genetic engineering, are shown to be generally beneficial both to health and to the environment." (''Fearing Food'' was published by Butterworth-Heinemann in September 1999). POSITIONS HELD
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