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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Health Misinformation about Toxic-Site Harm: The Case for Independent-Party Testing to Confirm Safety.

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Andrew M Biondo

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Does Hazardous-Waste Testing Follow Technical Guidance, Thus Help Protect Environmental Justice and Health?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kristin Shrader-FrechetteDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 100 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
Andrew M BiondoDepartment of Economics, University of Notre Dame, 3060 Jenkins Nanovic Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health misinformation can cause harm if regulators or private remediators falsely claim that a hazardous facility is safe. This misinformation especially threatens the health of children, minorities, and poor people, disproportionate numbers of whom live near toxic facilities. Yet, perhaps because of financial incentives, private remediators may use safety misinformation to justify reduced cleanup. Such incentives exist in nations like the United States, where most toxic-site testing/remediation is semi-privatized or voluntary, conducted by private parties, commercial redevelopers, who can increase profits by underestimating health harm, thus decreasing required testing/remediation. Our

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Air PollutantsAir Pollution, IndoorEnvironmental Restoration and RemediationVolatile Organic CompoundsChildCommunicationEnvironmental MonitoringGasesHumansSoilAir PollutantsGasesSoilVolatile Organic CompoundsColdwell Banker Real Estate/Trammell Crow (CBRE/TCC)hazardous wasteMethod TO-17passive samplingpollutionsorbent tube samplingtoxintrichloroethylene (TCE)vapor intrusionvolatile organic compound

Identifiers

PMID33917146
PMCPMC8067841

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