Retraction Watch: Journal to retract study declaring safety of asbestos roof

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

Asbestos

Only a few months after publication, an environmental journal has told RightOnCanada.ca it plans to retract a paper about the safety of roofing products containing asbestos after facing heavy criticism.

This summer, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (JOEH) received multiple letters asking them to retract the paper. Critics of the paper — which concluded that exposures to asbestos-containing roofing products were within safety limits — argued the article provided misleading information, grouped different materials with different asbestos exposures together, and failed to note the approving editor’s ties to the asbestos industry.

Read more here: http://retractionwatch.com/2016/09/19/journal-to-retract-study-declaring-safety-of-asbestos-roofs-report/

 

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