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Environmental epidemiology in a crossfire
- Source :
- Environmental Health, Etzel, R A, Grandjean, P & Ozonoff, D M 2021, ' Environmental epidemiology in a crossfire ', Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, vol. 20, no. 1, 91 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00776-1, Environmental Health, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-3 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2021.
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Abstract
- Two tendencies have emerged in environmental epidemiology that hamper the translation of research findings into prevention of environmental hazards. One is the increased focus on highlighting weaknesses of epidemiology research that is clearly meant to explain away the research conclusions and weaken their possible implications for interventions to control environmental hazards. Another is the voluminous amount of information sharing that involves a substantial amount of misinformation, as part of the ongoing infodemic. In this light, the appearance of the catalogue of doubt-raising strategies, indeed the worst practices of scientific inference, is good news. Collected under the auspices of the International Network for Epidemiology in Policy, it serves to illustrate the range of possible (and impossible) forms of critique that may be raised on behalf of vested interests or other groups who for some reason disagree with the epidemiological conclusions. We believe that this systematic list will be useful in our field and help to identify critiques of policy options that are hidden and sometimes suppressed in weighing the epidemiological evidence.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Control (management)
Psychological intervention
Scientific inference
Political science
medicine
Misinformation
Infodemic
Public health
business.industry
Information sharing
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Conflict of interest
Public relations
Research integrity
Industrial medicine. Industrial hygiene
RC963-969
Editorial
Policy
Doubt
Environmental epidemiology
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1476069X
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a547bc74a5fb04fc2dedf4991941de6d