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- Published on: 27 April 2016
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- Published on: 27 April 2016Re: Reporting of occupational and environmental research - author's replyShow More
Dear Editor
Dr Loomis draws attention to the potential dangers of the rigid use of checklists and guidelines to judge occupational and environmental research. I agree with these sentiments, in particular the concerns about the increasing number of papers that use compliance with these guidelines as a justification for conclusions regarding causality. There is, however, one rapidly expanding area of research that...
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None declared. - Published on: 27 April 2016Reporting of occupational and environmental researchShow More
Editor,
Rushton's recent article on the reporting of occupational and environmental research raises a number of useful points that all researchers would do well to remember when writing up epidemiological findings for publication. Without expressly intending to do so, however, the article also emphasizes the hazards of establishing formal criteria or checklists for the evaluation of scientific work. Good epi...Conflict of Interest:
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