{"id":3866,"date":"2016-12-13T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2016-12-13T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:22:08","slug":"a-journal-said-it-would-retract-a-paper-about-asbestos-now-its-withdrawn-what-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=3866","title":{"rendered":"A journal said it would retract a paper about asbestos \u2014 now it\u2019s \u201cwithdrawn.\u201d What changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/\">Retraction Watch<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"bubble\">\n<p>Dalmeet Singh Chawla, December 13, 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier this year, an environmental journal told an activist group it was <a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/09\/19\/journal-to-retract-study-declaring-safety-of-asbestos-roofs-report\/\">going to retract a study<\/a> about the safety of roofing products made from asbestos. Now the journal has\u00a0let the authors withdraw the paper \u2014 a different process, according to the journal.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows multiple letters from critics asking to retract a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/15459624.2016.1183010?journalCode=uoeh20\">study<\/a>, which found exposure to asbestos-containing roofing products to be within safe limits. The study\u2019s critics claimed that\u00a0it contains multiple problems, including not declaring the <a href=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Letter-to-Editor-in-Chief-JOEH-re-COI.pdf\">approving editor\u2019s links with the asbestos industry<\/a>, grouping together different materials with varying levels of asbestos exposures, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JOEHletGottesfeld.pdf\">providing misleading information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more here: <\/strong>http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/12\/13\/journal-said-retract-paper-asbestos-now-withdrawn-changed\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retraction Watch Dalmeet Singh Chawla, December 13, 2016 Earlier this year, an environmental journal told an activist group it was going to retract a study about the safety of roofing products made from asbestos. Now the journal has\u00a0let the authors withdraw the paper \u2014 a different process, according to the journal. The move follows multiple [&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":[227,312,241],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-conflict-of-interest","tag-journal-of-occupational-environmental-hygienee","tag-scientific-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","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=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}