Human exposure risk assessment for infectious diseases due to temperature and air pollution: an overview of reviews

X Song, X Guo, X Hu, Y Zhang, D Wei, Y Hu… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Air pollution and global temperature change are expected to affect infectious diseases. Air
pollution usually causes inflammatory response and disrupts immune defense system, while …

Public health impact of daily life triggers of sudden cardiac death: A systematic review and comparative risk assessment

V Čulić, A AlTurki, R Proietti - Resuscitation, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Sudden cardiac death (SCD) may be triggered by daily circumstances and
activities such as stressful psycho-emotional events, physical exertion or substance misuse …

Evaluation of a meta-analysis of air quality and heart attacks, a case study

S Stanley Young, WB Kindzierski - Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
It is generally acknowledged that claims from observational studies often fail to replicate. An
exploratory study was undertaken to assess the reliability of base studies used in meta …

Evaluation of a meta-analysis of ambient air quality as a risk factor for asthma exacerbation

W Kindzierski, S Young, T Meyer, J Dunn - Journal of Respiration, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: An irreproducibility crisis currently afflicts a wide range of scientific disciplines,
including public health and biomedical science. A study was undertaken to assess the …

[PDF][PDF] Reliability of a meta-analysis of air quality− asthma cohort studies

SS Young, KC Cheng, JH Chen, SC Chen… - … Journal of Statistics …, 2022 - epe.lac-bac.gc.ca
What may be a contributing cause of the replication problem in science–multiple testing bias–
was examined in this study. Independent analysis was performed on a meta-analysis of …

When Virtues are Vices:'Anti-Science'Epistemic Values in Environmental Politics

DJ Hicks - Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 2021 - philsci-archive.pitt.edu
Since at least the mid-2000s, political commentators, environmental advocates, and
scientists have raised concerns about an “anti-science” approach to environmental …

The P value plot does not provide evidence against air pollution hazards

DJ Hicks - Environmental Epidemiology, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: A number of papers by Young and collaborators have criticized
epidemiological studies and meta-analyses of air pollution hazards using a graphical …

[HTML][HTML] Shifting Sands: Report III

DRWKS Young - nas.org
This report uses statistical analyses to provide further evidence that our country's public
health bureaucrats gravely mishandled the federal government's response to the COVID-19 …

Reliability of meta-analysis of an association between ambient air quality and development of asthma later in life

SS Young, KC Cheng, JH Chen, SC Chen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Claims from observational studies often fail to replicate. A study was undertaken to assess
the reliability of cohort studies used in a highly cited meta-analysis of the association …

Getting the EPA back on track

ML Miranda - Science, 2019 - science.org
Your information will be kept confidential, and the lessons learned from your participation
will serve society—those are the promises made by researchers to participants in studies …