DAVID MICHAELS
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Harvard Business Review
by David Michaels
March 21, 2018
American Journal of Public Health
by David Michaels
June 5, 2019
JAMA
by David Michaels, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and Rick A. Bright
January 6, 2022
The Century Foundation
by David Michaels and Gregory R. Wagner
November 26, 2019
NYTimes
by David Michaels and Jordan Barab
January 14, 2022
But the justices may also have opened the door for a more comprehensive rule that will better protect the nation’s workers, and it is one that OSHA should have issued months ago.
The Century Foundation
by David Michaels and Gregory R. Wagner
November 26, 2019
Los Angeles Times
by David Michaels
August 16, 2019
At the height of World War II, as Adolf Hitler was presiding over the mass murder of Europe’s Jews, President Franklin D. Roosevelt kept our borders closed. Informed of the ongoing slaughter, he decided to permit only a thousand refugees entrance to America and allowed them to remain here only until the war ended. I grew up with two families: a traditional one, and the one we called our “Oswego family,” these refugees and their partners and children. . . .
Washington Post
by David Michaels
July 19, 2018
We are smashing heat records again this summer. We hear this so much now that there’s a risk we will start ignoring it before the key message sinks in: Global warming is here, and it’s starting to cook us. Not just the planet — us. Heat is the leading weather-related killer in the United States, and the toll (estimates range up to 1,300 deaths per year) will rise steeply in the coming decades.
CNN
by David Michaels
September 11, 2019
Public health detectives are desperately trying to find the cause of the hundreds of lung disease cases and at least six deaths that appear to be related to vaping. We don't yet know the cause or causes of the current outbreak; however, in response to a study that found lung-damaging chemicals in some Juul e-cigarette liquids, a spokesman for that company didn't dispute the finding but claimed it was irrelevant. . . .
SELECT SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Michaels D, Barab J. OSHA at 50: Protecting Workers in a Changing Economy. Amer J Public Health 2020;110(5):631-635.
Michaels, D. Reimagining Our System for Public Health Protection, Amer J Public Health 109(7):975-976 2019.
Michaels D, Burke T. The Dishonest HONEST Act. Science 356:989 2017.
Michaels D. Sarbanes-Oxley for Science. Law & Contemp Problems 69(3):1-19, 2006.
Michaels D. Scientific Evidence and Public Policy. Amer J Public Health 95:Suppl1.S5, 2005.
Michaels D, Wagner W. Disclosure in Regulatory Science. Science 302:2073, 2003.
Michaels D, Bingham E, Boden L, et al. Advice without Dissent. Science 298:703, 2002.