{"id":3779,"date":"2016-09-22T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2016-09-22T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T22:33:18","slug":"retraction-watch-journal-to-retract-study-declaring-safety-of-asbestos-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"Retraction Watch: Journal to retract study declaring safety of asbestos roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few months after publication, an environmental journal has <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/?p=3768\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">told RightOnCanada.ca<\/span><\/a><\/span> it plans to retract a paper about the safety of roofing products containing asbestos after facing heavy criticism.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, <em>Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene <\/em>(<em>JOEH<\/em>) received multiple\u00a0letters asking them<em> <\/em>to retract <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/15459624.2016.1183010?journalCode=uoeh20\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">the paper<\/span><\/a>. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Critics of the paper \u2014 which\u00a0concluded that exposures to asbestos-containing roofing products were within safety limits \u2014 argued\u00a0the article <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JOEHletGottesfeld.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">provided misleading information<\/span><\/a><\/span>, grouped different materials with different asbestos exposures together, and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Letter-to-Editor-in-Chief-JOEH-re-COI.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">failed to note the approving editor\u2019s ties to the asbestos industry<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more here<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/09\/19\/journal-to-retract-study-declaring-safety-of-asbestos-roofs-report\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/09\/19\/journal-to-retract-study-declaring-safety-of-asbestos-roofs-report\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0letters asking them to retract the paper. Critics of the paper \u2014 which\u00a0concluded that exposures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[227,241],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-conflict-of-interest","tag-scientific-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}