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October 21, 2005
Science magazine adds to Swan study woes
In the Oct 21 issue of Science Magazine, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, Jocelyn Kaiser did her homework and some good old-fashioned reporting on the Swan study and the faults the government DEHP review panel found in it (see my previous blog below). A telling line about the Swan research comes from panel member Robert Chapin, a toxicologist from Pfizer, who wondered to Ms. Kaiser, “Is this just noise?” Kim Boekelheide of Brown University added, “It makes everybody scratch their head.”
A link to a summary is below. Subscribers may see the full story by going to Science’s Web site.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/310/5747/422a.
Posted by Chris at October 21, 2005 5:13 PM