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CHE Partnership Call
Preserving the Integrity of Science: Research and Policy Considerations

April 28, 2006

This call will take place on Friday, April 28th, 2006 at 9:00 am Pacific / Noon Eastern, and will be a discussion on the integrity of scientific research.

Background Information / Resources

Articles by Donald Kennedy, Editor-In-Chief, Science
The New Gag Rules February 17, 2006.
Silly Season on the Hill August 26, 2005.
Twilight For the Enlightenment? April 8, 2005.
An Epidemic of Politics January 31, 2003.

Articles by David Michaels, Professor, George Washington University
Selected Science: An Industry Campaign to Undermine an OSHA Hexavalent Chromium Standard, Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006, 5:5. David Michaels, Celeste Monforton and Peter Lurie1.
The Art of 'Manufacturing Uncertainty', Los Angeles Times (Op-Ed), June 2005.
Doubt Is Their Product, Scientific American, June 2005. (PDF)

More articles by David Michaels 

Other Articles
The Presidents and the Scientists, The New Yorker, March 13, 2006. A Q&A with Michael Specter.
Large Effects From Small Exposures: The Importance of Positive Research in Low-Dose Research on Bisphenol-A (PDF), Frederick vom Saal and Wade V. Welshons, Environmental Research 100 (2006) 50-76.
Stem Cell Science and Politics: A Talk with Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., Steve Heilig, MPH, San Francisco Medicine.
Other recent articles addressing the abuse of science.

Information and Resources from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
UCS Scientific Integrity Program
UCS Reports: Scientific Integrity in Policy Making
Sign-On to a Scientist Statement on Scientific Integrity
Other Ways to Support the Integrity of Science

Useful Websites
About Politics: The State of the Science Under the Bush Administration, Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, Politics and Science, August 2003.
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
The Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (SKAPP)
Information about Dr. Fred vom Saal and his Endocrine Disruptors Group at University of Missouri-Columbia

 

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