The Threat to Air Pollution Health Studies Behind the Environmental Protection Agency's Cloak of Science Transparency

Affiliations

¹ Douglas W. Dockery is with the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. C. Arden Pope III is with the Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

Editorial

Douglas W Dockery et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;110(3):286-287.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305531.

¹ Douglas W. Dockery is with the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. C. Arden Pope III is with the Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

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