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Peer review of journal articles is now the norm in virtually all scientific disciplines. (1) The art of peer review has advanced over the years, and scientific publishing has embraced [...]

In 2000, the government of Alberta organized the Western Canada Study on Animal Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Field Facilities (henceforth called the [...]

A respected publication in our field, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM), recently announced its decision to 'retract' a major article. (1) This is a painful action for [...]

Why was this journal renamed the Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health? The change was not arbitrary. It is intended to signal that the newly relaunched journal, under its current [...]

In the last issue, I addressed the role of beliefs and suppositions in (mostly) environmental health sciences. In this issue, I explore what constitutes good science in general and in [...]

'The first rule of science is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.'--Richard Feynman (1) The desire to make a fundamental contribution drives all [...]

Chairing a session at a scientific meeting is a serious job. The chair is a moderator, a philosopher, and a traffic policeman, rolled into one. The chair is in a [...]

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, a working group of the US Congress, asked me to testify at a hearing on September 18, [...]

Asbestos ranks among the most heavily studied environmental and occupational hazards in history, with 9,297 MedLine citations. The world knowledge base on asbestos is unrivaled for any occupational exposure save [...]

Morris RD. The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink. New York: Harper Collins; 2007. Troesken W. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 2006. [...]

Science is the means by which we in environmental and occupational health study a problem and determine truth. There are, however, other bodies of knowledge. Among these are observations that [...]

In planning your presentation, remember that just as many people learn best by seeing as by hearing. Your best opportunity to get your message through to everyone in your audience [...]

Families exist primarily to protect children. Human babies are helpless at birth and remain totally dependent on their parents for several years, roughly until puberty, which is much longer than [...]

The Fourth International Conference on Children's Health and the Environment brought together 250 investigators and practitioners from around the world. This series of meetings sponsored by the International Network on [...]

In the literature of environmental and occupational health, there is always room for a good story. It is perhaps surprising that we have not developed a standardized format for case [...]

This issue of the Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health contains a (very) brief report from Italy by colleagues Migliore, Bizzi, Massafra, Capuano, and Martin Martin in which they suggest [...]

Dickens S. Cancer Downstream: A Citizen's Guide to Investigating Pollution/Health Connections. A Healthy Waters. Health Communities Action Guide. Portland, OR: River Network; 2007. Environmental advocacy has grown increasingly sophisticated. Once, [...]

Nigeria is a big, important, diverse country with many problems. It is a major oil producer with unique vulnerabilities. It has the potential for rapid and robust economic development given [...]

In previous editorials in this series, I examined the scientific literature in EOH (March/April 2006) and the original research paper (May/June 2006). I now turn my attention to the review [...]

Throughout its long history, the original research paper has served researchers well in science. However, one needs to recognize that a scientific research paper is a literary device with its [...]

Other intellectual fields have it easy. Chemists know what chemistry is and how to write an article for a chemistry journal. The editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry seldom [...]

A major community-based study in environmental and occupational health has significance beyond science: It invariably has implications for public policy, community wellbeing, individual health risk, and the local economy. The [...]

In this issue, the Archives publishes 2 articles on otherwise unrelated topics that have one feature in common: They both present practical issues with respect to continuing employment and limiting [...]

Time magazine recently reported the findings of an unpublished, but widely distributed, study based on county- and state-level regression data by a team of economists at Cornell University that purports [...]

The latest issue of The New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, contains an article on aids to navigation while driving an automobile. (1) In that article, Nick Paumgarten tells [...]

In the current issue of the journal, Hermann, DiVita, and Lanier calculate the potential risk for the Commonwealth of Virginia and its surrounding region of commissioning 29 proposed fossil fuel [...]

Scientists must be precise. They must do things correctly. They must present the data accurately. They have to communicate clearly. But every once in a while, a little error creeps [...]

Parker DL. Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor. New York: The Quantuck Lane Press; 2007. Forward by Senator Tom Harkin. David Parker has created a beautiful book on [...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US Department of Health and Human Services is a global resource for public health and disease management. While on a [...]

Professor Marco Maroni passed away on June 29, 2006, of a myocardial infarction. He was 56 and at the height of his career as a physician toxicologist and influence as [...]

RE: 'Risk of Cancer as a Result of Community Exposure to Gasoline Vapors,' by Ami S. Patel, Evelyn O. Talbott, Jeanne V. Zborowski, Juley A. Rycheck, Danielle Dell, Xiaohui Xu, [...]