1/16 CSPI Integrity in Science Watch Re: ACOEM Mold Statement & Expert Witnesses

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and the aaaai position statement on multiple chemical sensativity is

just as bad as thier mold statement.

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> Center for Science in the Public Interest

> Integrity in Science Watch

> January 16, 2007

> The Integrity in Science Database of Scientists and

> Organizations With Ties to Industry can be found at:

> www.integrityinscience.org

> ACOEM Mold Review Relied on Authors Paid to Testify in Mold

> Suits

> The American College of Occupational and Environmental

> Medicine failed to disclose that its position paper on

> mold, which downplays the risks to human health from the

> minute fungi, was written by scientists who regularly

> testify as expert witnesses for defendants in mold

> lawsuits. According to an article in the Wall Street

> Journal (subscription required), two of the paper's three

> authors - Hardin and Bruce Kelman - are principals at

> a law firm paid $375 to $500 an hour as defense counsel in

> mold lawsuits.

> [Note: The above needs a correction. Hardin and Bruce

> Kelman are principals of an environmental financial risk

> management company, Veritox. Law firms pay them $375 to

> $500 per hour as defense experts in mold lawsuits.]

> The third author, Saxon of the University of

> California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, is paid $510

> to $720 an hour for consulting and testifying in mold

> litigation.

> Two other medical societies have issued position papers on

> mold written, in part, by legal defense experts. Last year,

> Integrity in Science Watch uncovered that the American

> Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology's scientific

> review " The Medical Effects of Mold Exposure " failed to

> disclose that two physician-authors, including Saxon, were

> insurance company defense experts. The exposé led the

> association's journal to strengthen its disclosure

> requirements.

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HOW CAN THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS?

When this kind of news comes out with other papers its a big scandal.. but

they are just like Teflon it just doesn't stick..

The media isn't even reporting it.. besides the WSJ (! of all papers! thank

you WSJ!)