Paracelsus to parascience: the environmental cancer distraction.

@article{Ames2000ParacelsusTP,
  title={Paracelsus to parascience: the environmental cancer distraction.},
  author={B. N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold},
  journal={Mutation research},
  year={2000},
  volume={447 1},
  pages={
          3-13
        }
}
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