Tag: peer review
PCTC Updates List of Science Publications
The list of science publications sponsored by PCTC, updated through Dec. 2016, is available here. Publications include peer reviewed...
Post-Publication Peer Review: Synthetic bioretention systems that mimic soil/sediment runoff filtration remove almost all PAHs in runoff and eliminate almost all toxicity
In August 2015, during the course of giving her standard presentation on the evils of RTS on a webinar sponsored...
The study of RTS in Springfield, MO is critically flawed: post publication peer review of Pavlowsky (2013)
The comment below will be posted on the post-publication peer review (PPPR) web site, PubPeer.com. At present, the PubPeer link...
Post-Publication Peer Reviews now on PubPeer.com
In the past few years, the science community as a whole has been trying to address the problem...
Post Publication Review: Did Austin’s RTS Ban Result in a Decline in PAH Concentrations in Lady Bird Lake Sediments?
In 2014, Van Metre & Mahler published a paper in the journal Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) claiming...
PCTC Documents Flawed Methodology of USGS Austin Study, Asks Journal for Retraction
After years of waiting for the USGS to "do the right thing" by addressing its flawed science, which...
White Hat Bias in the Environmental Sciences (SETAC 2015)
At the 2015 annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Salt Lake City,...
Post Publication Peer Reviews of USGS Volatilization Studies
The USGS has been seeking to conduct "policy relevant science" (for example, here), and must have thought they'd hit the...
Report on PAHs in Sediments before RTS was banned in Austin, TX
Updating and repairing links in old posts brings to mind the saga of PCTC's last decade. For reasons not clear...
Post Publication Peer Review: Technical Evaluation of Van Metre & Mahler (2010)
Beginning in 2011, Dr. Kirk O'Reilly and his colleagues at Exponent® evaluated methods used by the USGS in...