The commission and McDonald's are discussing the possibility of sharing other equipment to evaluate safety, commission officials said, including apparatuses to test products that might present fire and eye hazards.
The government should instruct Nice to evaluate and judge commissioning as in the same way it does for new medicines or other therapeutic interventions.
On Wednesday, his office released a statement saying the public prosecutor would evaluate the commission's findings.
Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer and frequent critic, evaluated the commission's decommissioning estimate for Vermont Yankee, a nuclear plant on Vermont's border with New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Tom Del Beccaro, chairman of the California Republicans, said his party was evaluating the commission's process and had not ruled out a legal challenge.
Other researchers interested in the data propose analyses or experiments, which are evaluated by commission.
Federal officials, which grant the commission authority to evaluate colleges, cited the commission in August for violating regulations in its review of City College.
"My overall opinion is that Simonsohn has probably found a useful investigative tool," mathematical statistician Richard Gill of Leiden University in the Netherlands wrote on his blog today after ScienceInsider asked him to evaluate the Erasmus commission's report, which contains the only public description of Simonsohn's method.
This paper draws on a recent study, undertaken by the authors that evaluated the commissioning of health research within the context of the NHS Health of Londoners Programme using virtual and face-to-face committees.
The American Bar Association, along with several other organizations, advises that independent commissions evaluate judges on the basis of several key factors: legal knowledge, fairness, communication skills, professionalism, and administrative abilities.
