2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloepi.2020.100021
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Commentary on “Should health risks of air pollution be studied scientifically?” by Louis Anthony Cox, Jr.

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“…North [ 26 ] framed these two approaches as a clash of paradigms for how best to use data to reach causal conclusions. We view the first paradigm as the traditional scientific method used in most areas of applied science, and consider its demands for tests of assumptions and conclusions against data to be an essential part of this paradigm.…”
Section: Introduction: Scientific Methods and Weight-of-evidence Consementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…North [ 26 ] framed these two approaches as a clash of paradigms for how best to use data to reach causal conclusions. We view the first paradigm as the traditional scientific method used in most areas of applied science, and consider its demands for tests of assumptions and conclusions against data to be an essential part of this paradigm.…”
Section: Introduction: Scientific Methods and Weight-of-evidence Consementioning
confidence: 99%
“…North [ 26 ] interprets these innovations as a new paradigm for causal modeling. He may well be right, but we also view testing theory-derived predictions against observations using independently verifiable calculations and reproducible procedures as defining elements of scientific method since at least Galileo [ 28 ].…”
Section: Introduction: Scientific Methods and Weight-of-evidence Consementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tony has written in the journal Global Epidemiology on his challenge to EPA staff on the way causality is being assessed in the EPA draft documents. I wrote an invited commentary published in this journal (North, 2020). I have endorsed the CASAC recommendation in North (2020) that EPA work with the National Academies to critically review and improve the logical and conceptual foundations for its causal analysis.…”
Section: Health Risks From Air Pollutantsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I wrote an invited commentary published in this journal (North, 2020). I have endorsed the CASAC recommendation in North (2020) that EPA work with the National Academies to critically review and improve the logical and conceptual foundations for its causal analysis. [Added in proof: This recommendation has been accepted.…”
Section: Health Risks From Air Pollutantsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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