Title: Transparency of Values in Science: Elliott and Resnik Respond

1Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; 2National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA About This Article open Citation: Elliott KC, Resnik DB. 2014. Transparency of values in science: Elliott and Resnik respond. Environ Health Perspect 122:A291–A292; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1408936R E-mail: kce@msu.edu This letter is the work product of an employee of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). However, the statements, opinions, or conclusions presented here do not necessarily represent the statements, opinions, or conclusions of the NIEHS, NIH, or the U.S. government. The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests. Published: 1 November 2014 PDF Version (73 KB) We thank Schwartz for his thoughtful comments, which provide an opportunity for us to clarify some of the points in our commentary, in which we called for greater transparency about the values that influence policy-relevant research (Elliott and Resnik 2014). His first concern is that even though we call for employing different standards of evidence in various social contexts, the evidence itself remains the same. We agree; in our commentary we were not claiming that the evidence itself changes but only that the form of evidence required for different decisions dep...
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Correspondence November 2014 Source Type: research