Improving the “he said, she said” story

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A European Commission plan to regulate endocrine disruptors drew an editorial attack from a toxicology journal, followed by defenses in two other journals. Most news outlets just covered the back-and-forth, Alexis Sobel Fitts writes in CJR. But Environmental Health News checked out the first journal article's writers, and found potential conflicts of interest with 17 of the 18 authors. Fitts calls it "a comprehensive story of the influences behind science policy."

October 10, 2013

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