TY - JOUR
T1 - Reply to Cicchetti, Kaufman, and Sparrow
AU - Weisglas-Kuperus, Nynke
AU - Vreugdenhil, Hestien J.I.
AU - Mulder, Paul G.H.
PY - 2004/7/1
Y1 - 2004/7/1
N2 - The aim of the review of D.V. Cicchetti, A.S. Kaufman, and S.S. Sparrow (funded by the General Electric Company; this issue) is "to evaluate [the] literature relating the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) upon neurobehavioral, health-related, and cognitive deficits in neonates, developing infants, children, and adults" (p. 589) on the basis of data derived from seven cohorts. One of these cohorts is the Dutch PCB/dioxin study. The paper of Cicchetti et al. presents a long, winding exercise in criticizing aspects of the design of the seven studies. Here we will give a comment on their review, as far as it concerns our own work. We applied the six fundamental sets of scientific criteria as proposed by Cichetti et al.
AB - The aim of the review of D.V. Cicchetti, A.S. Kaufman, and S.S. Sparrow (funded by the General Electric Company; this issue) is "to evaluate [the] literature relating the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) upon neurobehavioral, health-related, and cognitive deficits in neonates, developing infants, children, and adults" (p. 589) on the basis of data derived from seven cohorts. One of these cohorts is the Dutch PCB/dioxin study. The paper of Cicchetti et al. presents a long, winding exercise in criticizing aspects of the design of the seven studies. Here we will give a comment on their review, as far as it concerns our own work. We applied the six fundamental sets of scientific criteria as proposed by Cichetti et al.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.20007
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.20007
M3 - Review article
SN - 0033-3085
VL - 41
SP - 665
EP - 668
JO - Psychology in the Schools
JF - Psychology in the Schools
IS - 6
ER -