Richard Peto

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6 mentions 5 recordings first heard Jul 2014 last heard 25 May ↑1 vs the 12 months before

British epidemiologist, co‑founder of large‑scale cohort studies

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Choses à SavoirChoses à Savoir - Culture générale · Pourquoi les éléphants ont-ils si peu de cancers ? · 0:43 · 25 May
…Ce paradoxe porte même un nom, le paradoxe de Péto, du nom du chercheur Richard Péto, qui remarqua dans les années 1970 que les grands animaux ne développaient pas proportionnellement plus de cancer que les petits.…
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Professor Hannah FryThe Rest Is Science · How Evolution Is Shaping Cancer Research · 21:44 · 26 Mar
…There's actually a researcher from Oxford called Richard Peto, and he was thinking about this in the 1970s.…
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Sir John BellGround Truths · Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Futu... · 11:05 · May 2025
…And he built up this fantastic epidemiology capability in Oxford around Richard Peto, Rory Collins, and those folks.…
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Ruth AlexanderMore or Less · To ice or not to ice? · 25:00 · Sep 2014
…Here's Sir Richard Peto, Professor of Medical Statistics at Oxford……
Ruth AlexanderMore or Less · Will we die before our parents? · 2:03 · Jul 2014
…Well, that's surprising, but he's talking there about Britain.…
Laura GrayMore or Less · Will we die before our parents? · 1:11 · Jul 2014
…While it's true that the number of people who are……
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