Chemical Safety Studies: Conrad and Becker Respond

Chemical Safety Studies: Conrad and Becker Respond

Influence of design charac­ teris tics on the outcome of retrospective cohort studies. Br J Ind Med 45:624–629. vom Saal FS, Hughes C. 2005. An extensive new literature concerning low­dose effects of bisphenol A shows the need for a new risk assessment. Environ Health Perspect 113:926–933. Sutton et al. and Tweedale both criticize our review (Conrad and Becker 2011) because we did not include i...

Credibility of Scientists: Barrow and Conrad Respond

“Genetically Modified Foods: Breeding Uncertainty” (Schmidt 2005) overlooked many serious concerns about the environmental and health risks of this new technology. Potential problems from antibiotic-resistant genes used in gene-altered crops, risks from unintended effects of the genetic engineering process, the increases in pesticide use stemming from widespread planting of genespliced varietie...

Conrad and Becker’s “10 Criteria” Fall Short of Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Chemical Safety Studies

Enhancing Credibility of Chemical Safety Studies: No Consensus

Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 119 | number 12 | December 2011 A 507 of the evidence, and unceasing regulatory and public vigilance about the influence of funding source on the science that informs environmental health policy. Subsequent to submitting this letter, the University of California, San Francisco, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (T.W. and P.S.) received...

Linkage studies in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies.

We have studied the inheritance of four cloned DNA sequences which recognise restriction fragment length polymorphisms on the short arm of the X chromosome in families with Becker and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We have confirmed linkage of two probe loci to the disease loci and have combined our results with those previously published to give a maximum lod score of 11.642 at a recombination f...