ArticleInternational journal of occupational and environmental health2015
How conflicted authors undermine the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign to stop all use of asbestos: spotlight on studies showing that chrysotile is carcinogenic and facilitates other non-cancer asbestos-related diseases.
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- Examining the Environmental Ramifications of Asbestos Fiber Movement Through the Water-Soil Continuum: A Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- High-resolution computed tomography features of asbestosis versus fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: an observational study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Observational
- Ongoing downplaying of the carcinogenicity of chrysotile asbestos by vested interests.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2021Article
- How can the integrity of occupational and environmental health research be maintained in the presence of conflicting interests?Environmental health : a global access science source · 2019Article
- Prevention of Asbestos Exposure in Latin America within a Global Public Health Perspective.Annals of global health · 2019Review
- In vitro genotoxicity of asbestos substitutes induced by coupled stimulation of dissolved high-valence ions and oxide radicals.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
- Chrysotile effects on the expression of anti-oncogene P53 and P16 and oncogene C-jun and C-fos in Wistar rats' lung tissues.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
- Lung injury and expression of p53 and p16 in Wistar rats induced by respirable chrysotile fiber dust from four primary areas of China.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
- Evidence Regarding the Impact of Conflicts of Interest on Environmental and Occupational Health Research.Current environmental health reports · 2017Review
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- Ethics, morality, and conflicting interests: how questionable professional integrity in some scientists supports global corporate influence in public health.International journal of occupational and environmental health · 2015Article
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
The silicate mineral asbestos is categorized into two main groups based on fiber structure: serpentine asbestos (chrysotile) and amphibole asbestos (crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite). Chrysotile is used in more than 2 000 applications and is especially prevalent in the construction industry. Although its use is banned or restricted in more than 52 countries, an estimated 107 000 workers die from asbestos exposure each year, and approximately 125 million workers continue to be exposed. Furthermore, ambient exposures persist to which the public is exposed, globally. Today, the primary controversies regarding the use of asbestos are the potencies of different types of asbestos, as opposed whether or not asbestos causes morbidity and mortality. The asbestos industry has promoted and funded research based on selected literature, ignoring both clinical and scientific knowledge. In this piece, we highlight a prominent example of a conflicted publication that sought to undermine the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign to stop the use of all forms of asbestos, including chrysotile asbestos. Independent and rigorous scientific data provide sufficient evidence that chrysotile asbestos, like other forms of asbestos, is a cause of asbestos-related morbidity and premature mortality.
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