"Politically Correct" Research

Letter to the editor
Environmental Health Perspectives
December 1998


It is unfortunate that the National Institutes of Health have become so politicized. I do not understand how the original study of Swan et al. [Have Sperm Densities Declined? A Reanalysis of Global Trend Data. EHP 105:1228-1232 (1997)] got such widespread attention; one would expect the arguably most important government organ concerned with the study of health issues in the United States to have a higher standard than that exemplified in its dissemination of its original study.

David Hamlin
K-Sight Systems, Inc.
Memphis, Tennessee

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