Flawed arguments in this commentary

Arguments against helmet legislation are flawed.

Flawed meta-analysis of a flawed literature: commentary on Versteeg et al.

Should authors review and synthesize results of their own studies in meta-analyses? Properly done, meta-analyses provide independent, quantitative assessments not only of overall effect sizes found in a literature, but of the quality and limitations of contributing studies, and the nature and sources of variations in effect size. Avoidance of bias in this process is considered paramount. The Co...

Prelude: the arguments of this book

Institutional Christianity is in crisis about ‘sexuality’. Its detractors in the supposedly secularized and liberal climes of Northern Europe, who nonetheless yearn for what they call a satisfying ‘spirituality’, see this crisis as a sign of its failure to engage the contemporary world. Its conservative defenders, to be found mainly in religiously observant parts of North America and throughout...

Commentary: flawed science delays smelter cleanup and worsens health.

For 6,000 years, humans have known about smelter hazards. Yet these metals threats continue. Why? This commentary provides one preliminary answer. It (1) summarizes the history of smelter pollution and (2) suggests that at least 3 problems-especially flawed smelter-polluter science-allow continuing health threats. It (3) illustrates this flawed science by using one of the most dangerous of U.S....

Commentary: Flawed scientific-evidence standards delay diesel regulations.

Of 188 government-monitored air toxics, diesel particulate matter (DPM) causes seven times more cancer than all the other 187 air toxics combined, including benzene, lead, and mercury. Yet, DPM is the only air toxic not regulated more stringently under the Clean Air Act, as a hazardous air pollutant (HAP). One reason is that regulators use flawed standards of scientific evidence. The article ar...