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ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2013

Science and policy on endocrine disrupters must not be mixed: a reply to a "common sense" intervention by toxicology journal editors.

Åke Bergman, Anna-Maria Andersson, Georg Becher, Martin van den Berg, Bruce Blumberg, Poul Bjerregaard, Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, Riana Bornman, Ingvar Brandt, Jayne V Brian and 31 more

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Article in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

41 authors.

Åke BergmanDepartment of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Ake.Bergman@mmk.su.se.
Anna-Maria Andersson
Georg Becher
Martin van den Berg
Bruce Blumberg
Poul Bjerregaard
Carl-Gustaf Bornehag
Riana Bornman
Ingvar Brandt
Jayne V Brian
Stephanie C Casey
Paul A Fowler
Heloise Frouin
Linda C Giudice
Taisen Iguchi
Ulla Hass
Susan Jobling
Anders Juul
Karen A Kidd
Andreas Kortenkamp
Monica Lind
Olwenn V Martin
Derek Muir
Roseline Ochieng
Nicolas Olea
Leif Norrgren
Erik Ropstad
Peter S Ross
Christina Rudén
Martin Scheringer
Niels Erik Skakkebaek
Olle Söder
Carlos Sonnenschein
Ana Soto
Shanna Swan
Jorma Toppari
Charles R Tyler
Laura N Vandenberg
Anne Marie Vinggaard
Karin Wiberg
R Thomas Zoeller

Funding

CARCINOGENESIST32CA009054 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI EDINGER, AIMEE L, FRUMAN, DAVID ALEXANDER · 1985 to 2025
$8.6M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The "common sense" intervention by toxicology journal editors regarding proposed European Union endocrine disrupter regulations ignores scientific evidence and well-established principles of chemical risk assessment. In this commentary, endocrine disrupter experts express their concerns about a recently published, and is in our considered opinion inaccurate and factually incorrect, editorial that has appeared in several journals in toxicology. Some of the shortcomings of the editorial are discussed in detail. We call for a better founded scientific debate which may help to overcome a polarisation of views detrimental to reaching a consensus about scientific foundations for endocrine disrupter regulation in the EU.

Indexed as

Environmental ExposurePeriodicals as TopicEndocrine DisruptorsEnvironmental PollutantsEuropean UnionGovernment RegulationHealth PolicyHumansToxicologyEndocrine DisruptorsEnvironmental Pollutants

Identifiers

PMID23981490
PMCPMC3765603

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