Controversy over Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

  1. Robert D. Byers, MD
  1. International Medicine Associates; Santa Barbara, CA 93105

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    TO THE EDITOR:

    How can we, as readers, have confidence in this journal when it publishes the article by Simon and colleagues [1] discussing factors of multiple chemical sensitivity? They receive grants from the Boeing Company, which must have a huge vested interest in disproving the existence of multiple chemical sensitivity.

    Please explain how this is unbiased.

    Robert D. Byers, MD

    International Medicine Associates; Santa Barbara, CA 93105

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