Social ecological systems research suffers from a disconnect between hierarchical (top-down or bottom-up) and network (peer-to-peer) analyses.
Regardless of possible unintended consequences, fighting tweets with peer-reviewed analyses does not work.
This year's report features 17 peer-reviewed analyses of 16 disasters by 120 researchers looking at weather across six continents and two oceans.
The breakthrough study, which deserved national attention and government action, added to over two dozen peer-reviewed analyses that have pointed to soaring rates of birth defects, cancer, heart and respiratory diseases in mountaintop removal areas.
He cited six "studies" that he said had concluded that the Romney math adds up, but, as Justin Wolfers, of the University of Pennsylvania, quickly pointed out, these weren't exactly all peer-reviewed analyses: four of them were blog posts or op-eds.
As peer-reviewed analyses make clear, lack of political will - to establish a price on carbon and to end fossil fuel subsidies, for example - is now the bottleneck to tackling climate change.
IFS prepared the proposal, coordinated and supervised the survey, and conducted interviews with health personnel and peer educators, analysed the data, interpreted the findings and wrote the manuscript.
We also relied on references within the papers that we found in the PubMed search and on non-peer-reviewed analyses of animal studies, which are part of the current debate on potential formaldehyde leukemogenicity.
We also considered two unpublished and non-peer-reviewed analyses (DeVoney et al., 2010, poster abstract only; Woutersen, 2007) of data from the Battelle Columbus Laboratories (1981) study that was later published by Kerns et al. (1983).
Moreover, we also emphasize the fact that this study evaluation was conducted by peer review, analysing discrepancies and seeking agreement, despite this method entailed, in some cases, double-checking the obtained information from the colonoscopy requests, and from the electronic medical records.
