David Michaels: Scholarship

Writing and speeches by David Michaels

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.
Transparency, strength at FDA. Boston Globe op-ed by Susan Wood and David Michaels, August 1, 2007
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

Advice Without Dissent. Editorial by SKAPP Planning Committee members and others in Science, October 25, 2002

Journal Articles

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.
Michaels D and C Monforton. How Litigation Shapes the Scientific Literature: Asbestos and Disease Among Automobile Mechanics. J Law & Policy 2007; 15(3). (PDF)
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.
Michaels D. Sarbanes-Oxley for Science. 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
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.
Dweck A, Lurie P, Michaels D. (Letter) Hexavalent chromium study’s conclusions unjustified. J Occup Environ Med. 2005 Oct; 47(10): 980-1.
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)
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)
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 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.
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).
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.