Writing and speeches by SKAPP staff and Planning Committee members

Articles & Op-eds in Mainstream Publications

• It's Not the Answers That Are Biased, It's the Questions. David Michaels's article for the Washington Post, July 15, 2008.
• Why they didn't tell us these pills could kill our kids. David Michaels's Chicago Tribune op-ed, July 13, 2008.
• A public health system defeated at the hands of ideology. Susan Wood's op-ed in the Boston Globe, December 17, 2007
• Transparency, strength at FDA. Boston Globe op-ed by Susan Wood and David Michaels, August 1, 2007
• Back to science at the FDA. Susan Wood's op-ed in the Boston Globe, November 11, 2006
• Bush’s disturbing nominee. Celeste Monforton’s op-ed in the Louisville Courier-Journal, August 24, 2006
• Science-for-hire hazardous to health. David Michaels’s op-ed in the Baltimore Sun, April 17, 2006 (PDF)
• The Art of “Manufacturing Uncertainty.” David Michaels’s op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2005
• Doubt is Their Product. David Michaels’s article in Scientific American, June 2005
• Disclosure in Regulatory Science. David Michaels’s and Wendy Wagner’s commentary in Science, December 19, 2003
• Science for Special Interests. Anthony Robbins’s op-ed in the Boston Globe, December 7, 2003
• Advice Without Dissent. Editorial by SKAPP Planning Committee members and others in Science, October 25, 2002

Journal Articles

• Wood S and K Perosino. Increasing Transparency at the FDA: The Impact of the FDA Amendments Act of 2007. Public Health Rep 2008 July-August; 123: 527-30.
• Michaels D and C Monforton. (Letter) [Michaels and Monforton respond respond to a Letter from Kolanz regarding "Beryllium's Public Relations Problem"]. Public Health Rep 2008 July-August; 123: 428-32.
• Clapp R, Jacobs M, Loechler. Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer: 2005-2007 Update. Reviews on Environmental Health (in press), March 2008.
• Michaels D and C Monforton. Beryllium’s Public Relations Problem: Protecting Workers When There Is No Safe Exposure Level. Public Health Rep 2008 January-February; 123:79-88.
• Wood S, Spear S. What Do Women Need to Know and When Do They Need to Know It? Plast Reconstr Surg 2007 December Supplement 1: 135S-139S. 
• Michaels D and C Monforton. How Litigation Shapes the Scientific Literature: Asbestos and Disease Among Automobile Mechanics. J Law & Policy 2007; 15(3). (PDF)
• Krimsky S and T Simoncelli. Testing Pesticides in Humans. JAMA 2007 June 6; 297(21).
• Robbins A. Can the US Congress slow down and get FDA reform right? The Lancet 2007 May 12; 369:1583-4.
• Welch L, Haile E, Dement J, Michaels D. Change in Prevalence of Asbestos-Related Disease Among Sheet Metal Workers 1986 to 2004. Chest 2007 March; 131 (3):863-9.
• Clapp, R. Mortality among US employees of a large computer manufacturing company: 1969–2001. Environmental Health 2006 October; 5:30.
• Michaels D. Sarbanes-Oxley for Science. Law & Contemp Prob 2006; 69(3): 1-19.
• Givelber D and A Robbins. Public Health Versus Court-sponsored Secrecy. Law & Contemp Prob 2006; 69(3): 1-19.
• Michaels D. Manufactured Uncertainty: Protecting Public Health in the Age of Contested Science and Product Defense. Ann NY Acad Sci 2006; 1076: 149-162.
• Neutra RN, Cohen A, Fletcher T, Michaels D, Richter ED, Soskolne CL. Toward guidelines for the ethical reanalysis and reinterpretation of another's work. Epidemiology 2006; 17 (3): 335-338.
• Michaels D, C Monforton, and P Lurie. Selected Science: An Industry Campaign to Undermine an OSHA Hexavalent Chromium Standard. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006, 5:5.
• Michaels M, Lurie P, Monforton C. (Letter) Lung Cancer Mortality in the German Chromate Industry, 1958 to 1998. J Occup Environ Med. 2006 Oct; 48(10):995-7.
• Michaels M, Monforton C. (Letter) The Beryllium Occupational Exposure Limit: Historical Origin and Current Inadequacy. J Occup Environ Med. 2006 Oct; 48(10):998-1000
• Clapp R, Williams ML. (Letter) Regarding "Phenylpropanolamine and hemorrhagic stroke in the hemorrhagic stroke project". Ann Epidemiol. 2006 Jul;16(7):580-2.
• Michaels D. (Letter) Regarding "Phenylpropanolamine and hemorrhagic stroke in the hemorrhagic stroke project": mercenary epidemiology-data reanalysis and reinterpretation for sponsors with financial interest in the outcome. Ann Epidemiol. 2006 Jul;16(7):583-5.
• Clapp R, Hoppin P, Kriebel D. Erosion of the Integrity of Public Health Science in the USA. Occup Environ Med. 2006; 63: 367-368.
• Clapp R, Howe G and Jacobs M. Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer Revisited. J Public Health Policy. 27:61-76, 2006.
• Dweck A, Lurie P, Michaels D. (Letter) Hexavalent chromium study’s conclusions unjustified. J Occup Environ Med. 2005 Oct; 47(10): 980-1.
• Hoppin PJ and R Clapp. Science and Regulation: Current Impasse and Future Solutions. Am J Public Health. (Supplement 1, July 2005)
• Krimsky S. The Weight of Scientific Evidence in Policy and Law. Am J Public Health. (Supplement 1, July 2005)
• Michaels D and C Monforton. Manufacturing Uncertainty: Contested Science and the Protection of the Public's Health and Environment. Am J Public Health. (Supplement 1, July 2005)
• Ozonoff D. Epistemology in the Courtroom: A Little “Knowledge” is a Dangerous Thing. Am J Public Health. (Supplement 1, July 2005)
• Ozonoff D. Legal Causation and Responsibility for Causing Harm. Am J Public Health. (Supplement 1, July 2005)
• Michaels D and C Monforton. Scientific Evidence and the Regulatory System: Manufacturing Uncertainty and the Demise of the Formal Regulatory System. J Law and Policy. 2005; XIII (1): 17-41. (PDF)
• Clapp RW and D Ozonoff. Environment and Health: Vital Intersection or Contested Territory? Am J Law Med. 2004; 30(2/3): 189-215.
• Krimsky S. The Funding Effect in Science and its Implications for the Judiciary. J Law and Policy. 2005; XIII(1): 43-68.
• Robbins A. Science Policy and Politics: Will the Recent Past Preface the Future? Epidemiology. 2005 May;16(3):406-9.
• Wagner W and DM Michaels. Equal Treatment for Regulatory Science: Extending the Controls Governing the Quality of Public Research to Private Research. 2004; 30(2&3): 119-54.

Speeches & Testimony

• David Michaels: Testimony before the Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children’s Health Protection of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, “Oversight Hearing on Science and Environmental Regulatory Decisions.” May 7, 2008.
• David Michaels: Testimony before the the Subcommittee on Employment & Workplace Safety of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, "Is OSHA Working for Working People?" April 26, 2007.
• David Michaels: Speech for “Government Science Panels: Fair and Balanced?” hosted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, July 24, 2006. (Read Michaels’s remarks or an event transcript)
• David Michaels: Testimony (and attachment) before the House Education and Workforce Committee, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, "Addressing Concerns about the U.S. Department of Labor's Use of Non-Consensus Standards in Workplace Health and Safety," June 14, 2006.
• Celeste Monforton: Testimony at a Public Hearing before the Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor on the Proposed Rule to Protect Miners from Exposure to Asbestos, October 20, 2005.
• David Michaels: Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, “The Impact of Science on Public Policy,” February 4, 2004.

Reports & Book Chapters

• David Michaels. "Manufactured Uncertainty: Contested Science and the Protection of the Public’s Health and Environment" in Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
• David Michaels. “Politicizing Peer Review: The Scientific Perspective” in Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research, edited by Wendy Wagner and Rena Steinzor (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
• Sheldon Krimsky. "Publication Bias, Data Ownership, and the Funding Effect in Science" in Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research, edited by Wendy Wagner and Rena Steinzor (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
• SKAPP. Daubert: The Most Influential Supreme Court Ruling You've Never Heard Of (HTML Excerpt or PDF Full Text) June 2003. This report is a scientists' perspective on the 1993 Supreme Court decision Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.