According to Natural Resources New Service "Bate has made a name for himself in anti-regulatory circles while avoiding not just scrutiny but outside attention of any kind" by "injecting himself into environmental and health debates, often at a technical level, despite having no formal scientific credentials".
Life’s Adventure: Virtual Risk in a Real World (2000), which lists ozone depletion, climate change, tobacco, pesticides and nuclear power as 'junk science-based scares'.
Fearing Food: Risk, Health and the Environment co-written with Julian Morris (1999), which defended intensive agriculture, agrichemicals and genetically engineered crops and criticised organic agriculture.
What Risk? Science, Politics, and Public Health (1997)
cofounder and director, European Science and Environment Forum (ESEF), a biotech, tobacco, and chemical industry front-group (the European equivalent of US-based The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC)).
fellow and director of the International Policy Network, a network of free-market think tanks around the world
visiting scholar, Political Economy Research Center
on the advisory board of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.