Environmental Group Wants Paustenbach Reprimanded by SOT

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Integrity in Science Watch August 28, 2006 The Integrity in Science Database of Scientists and Organizations With Ties to Industry can be found at: www.integrityinscience.org. Please circulate. To subscribe to Integrity in Science Watch or to send tips for inclusion in the Database, please send an email to science@.... Environmental Group Wants Paustenbach Reprimanded The Environmental Working Group has asked the Society of Toxicology to issue a written reprimand for industry consultant Dennis Paustenbach for violating the society's code of ethics. "Some price (has) to be paid for deliberate fraudulent activity and then using fake science to weaken public health protections," the EWG letter said. Paustenbach's consulting firm in 1997 published an article in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,[sic, Journal of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, ACOEM] that manipulated data purchased two years earlier from a Chinese scientist, whose original research showed a connection between chromium-6 and cancer in Chinese villages. The re-worked article, which was recently retracted, was published under the Chinese scientist's name and reversed his conclusion. It was later used to weaken California regulations on chromium in water