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Update (November 26): The heads of six major journals or families of journals, including Science, Nature, and Cell, today released a joint letter voicing concern with the proposed transparency rule. Under the rule, they write, "foundational science from years past—research on air quality and asthma, for example, or water quality and human health—could be deemed by the EPA to be insufficient for informing our most significant public health issues. That would be a catastrophe."
The US Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to roll out a new version of its much-criticized transparency rule that would in most cases prohibit considering studies in which raw data are not available. The contents of the new draft rule, which the EPA has not yet made public, would greatly expand the exclusion of studies beyond what the first draft would have. The document was disclosed yesterday (November 11) by The New ...
