07/10/2026
An asbestos study published in 1946 in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology that aimed to measure the safety of using asbestos to build warships is considered for retraction. Critics find issue with the analysis adopted sampling method saying that it wasn’t the standard used at the time.
Read the article published in Chemical and Engineering News here:
The controversial study was presented as evidence before the US Supreme Court as recently as 2018