Allowing pseudoscience into EU risk assessment processes is eroding public trust in science experts and in science as a whole: The bigger picture

Affiliations

• ¹ Human and Environmental Toxicology, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany. Electronic address: Daniel.Dietrich@uni-konstanz.de.
• ² Department of Toxicology, University of Wuerzburg, Versbacher Str. 9, 97078 Wuerzburg, Germany. Electronic address: dekant@toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de.
• ³ Technical University of Munich, Hohenbachernstr. 15-17, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany. Electronic address: helmut.greim@lrz.tu-muenchen.de.
• ⁴ Department of Genetics, University Road, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom. Electronic address: phh4@leicester.ac.uk.
• ⁵ Queen Mary - Pathology, Queen Mary, London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom. Electronic address: colin@sircolinberry.co.uk.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.boobis@imperial.ac.uk.
• ⁷ Department of Toxicology, IfADo, Ardeystrasse 67, 44139 Dortmund, Germany. Electronic address: hengstler@ifado.de.
• ⁸ MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, 47 Little France Crescent, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ United Kingdom. Electronic address: r.sharpe@ed.ac.uk.