Three Criteria for Ecological Fallacy

A 332 volume 119 | number 8 | August 2011 • Environmental Health Perspectives mental design may under lie observed differ­ ences in sensitivity to detect neuro toxicity, possibly because of differences in bio kinetics and exposure during sensitive windows of development. Fortunately, much effort is tak­ ing place in the scientific community to opti­ mize experi mental designs at different levels of biological complexity, including (develop­ mental) neuro behavioral studies. Although a critical review on the impact of different experi mental designs for in vivo (developmen­ tal) neuro toxicity studies would be very use­ ful, it was beyond the scope of our review (Dingemans et al. 2011). The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.