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Systematic Assessment of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Mercury Reveals Conflicts of Interest and the Need for Transparency in Autism Research

Kern, Janet K., Geier, David A., Deth, Richard C., Sykes, Lisa K., Hooker, Brian S., Love, James M., Bjørklund, Geir, Chaigneau, Carmen G., Haley, Boyd E., Geier, Mark R.·2017·Science and Engineering Ethics
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Authors
Kern, J. K., Geier, D. A., Deth, R. C., Sykes, L. K., Hooker, B. S., Love, J. M., Bjørklund, G., Chaigneau, C. G., Haley, B. E., & Geier, M. R.
Venue
Science and Engineering Ethics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2017-11-08
Volume
23
Issue
6
Pages
1691-1718
ISSN
  • 1353-3452
  • 1471-5546
DOI
10.1007/s11948-017-9983-2
PMC
PMC5705731
Cited by
14
References
6
Language
en
Status
Retracted
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (unspecified)

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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

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CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Systematic Assessment of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Mercury Reveals Conflicts of Interest and the Need for Transparency in Autism Research. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1007/s11948-017-9983-2
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Kern, J. K., Geier, D. A., Deth, R. C., Sykes, L. K., Hooker, B. S., Love, J. M., Bjørklund, G., Chaigneau, C. G., Haley, B. E., & Geier, M. R. (2017). Systematic Assessment of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Mercury Reveals Conflicts of Interest and the Need for Transparency in Autism Research. Science and Engineering Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9983-2