ACOEM Journal Retracts Fradulent Study

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This is exactly what was done over the mold issue. Defense expert witnesses

wrote a bogus study that was financially beneficial to their clients. Then

the Journal of ACOEM legitimized it and the result was that it would carry

more weight in court. Sound familiar?

From the Center for Science in the Public Interest Newsletter 6/5/06:

Environmental Journal Retracts Fraudulent Study on Chromium

The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine will retract a 1997

article on chromium written under the names of two Chinese scientists after a

Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that the article was actually

drafted and edited by consultants for a major chromium polluter. Chemrisk,

founded and directed by Dennis Paustenbach (see

_http://www.IntegrityinScience.org/_ (http://www.IntegrityinScience.org/) ),

purchased in 2005 JianDong Zhang's

original data on the link between chromium-6 in drinking water and cancer in

Chinese villages. Chemrisk, which had been hired by Pacific Gas and Electric,

the California utility company being sued for chromium contamination, then

reworked the data to show that Zhang, who objected to the publication, had

reversed his conclusion on the chromium-cancer link The JOEM retraction,

signed

by editor Dr. Brandt-Rauf, states that the article did not comply with

the journal's policy because " financial and intellectual input to the paper

by outside parties was not disclosed. " Since its publication, the fake article

has influenced regulatory decisions on chromium, including being used by a

scientific panel for a 2001 report which forced California health officials to

revise a recommendation for how much chromium-6 should be allowed in

drinking water.