Truth and scientific consequences
https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/11/30/tru...nces-17495
INTRO: An email from Dr. Shao, a professor at Indiana University School of Public Health, states that EPA’s current version of Benchmark Dose Software (BMDS) modeling is “extremely misleading and not scientifically justified.” It is very unusual for a scientist who has been deeply involved with the EPA in developing risk assessment modeling to openly criticize the EPA. This requires a deeper dive into this issue... (MORE - details)
What's behind the holiday-suicide myth
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009950
INTRO: For more than two decades, the Annenberg Public Policy Center has tracked the ways in which news organizations erroneously link the year-end holiday season with suicide, perpetuating the false holiday-suicide myth. But as years of national data show, the winter holiday months usually have low average daily suicide rates, with December the lowest of all.
In our new media analysis, we find that of the newspaper stories during the 2022-23 holiday season that explicitly connected the holidays with suicide, 60% correctly debunked the myth while 40% incorrectly supported it.
But it’s not just the media that often gets it wrong. So does the public... (MORE - details)
https://www.acsh.org/news/2023/11/30/tru...nces-17495
INTRO: An email from Dr. Shao, a professor at Indiana University School of Public Health, states that EPA’s current version of Benchmark Dose Software (BMDS) modeling is “extremely misleading and not scientifically justified.” It is very unusual for a scientist who has been deeply involved with the EPA in developing risk assessment modeling to openly criticize the EPA. This requires a deeper dive into this issue... (MORE - details)
What's behind the holiday-suicide myth
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009950
INTRO: For more than two decades, the Annenberg Public Policy Center has tracked the ways in which news organizations erroneously link the year-end holiday season with suicide, perpetuating the false holiday-suicide myth. But as years of national data show, the winter holiday months usually have low average daily suicide rates, with December the lowest of all.
In our new media analysis, we find that of the newspaper stories during the 2022-23 holiday season that explicitly connected the holidays with suicide, 60% correctly debunked the myth while 40% incorrectly supported it.
But it’s not just the media that often gets it wrong. So does the public... (MORE - details)