Stan Young study exposes publication bias, p-hacking, and junk meta analysis in environmental epidemiology — and rubbishes a highly-cited air quality paper in the process

Since the days of the EPA secondhand smoke risk assessment, JunkScience.com has had contempt for the bogus statistical technique of meta-analysis. We have also taken the lead in exposing as fraud claims that ambient air quality kills people. JunkScience.com friend Stan Young has just published a new paper dismantling a major 2012 air quality study (headlined below) as the product of publication bias and p-hacking, thus exposing its meta analysis methodology as just a bunch of junk.

Here is the 2012 study (abstract below). It received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Clinical Medicine for the publication year 2012.

Here is Stan Young’s paper (abstract below).

Great job, Stan!