If anyone is interested in recent developments on the frog-atrazine story/controversy, I encourage you to examine the following two papers, both published in 2010 (links are below): "A qualitative meta-analysis reveals consistent effects of atrazine on freshwater fish and amphibians" (in Environmental Health Perspectives) and "Preserving environmental health and scientific credibility: a practical guide to reducing conflicts of interest" (in Conservation Letters). The former paper considers the quality of atrazine papers included in the "meta-analysis", but conducts the analyses both including all papers and excluding papers that did not meet the quality criteria. The latter paper documents considerable errors and bias in an industry-funded review on atrazine effects. I hope you find them enlightening.
EHP Paper: http://shell.cas.usf.edu/rohrlab/data/2010%20Rohr%20and%20McCoy% 20EHP.pdf EHP Supplmentary Materials: http://shell.cas.usf.edu/rohrlab/data/2010% 20Rohr%20and%20McCoy%20EHP%20Supp%20Mat.pdf Conservation Letters Paper: http://shell.cas.usf.edu/rohrlab/data/2010% 20Rohr%20and%20McCoy%20Cons.%20Lett.pdf Conservation Letters Supplementary Materials: http://shell.cas.usf.edu/rohrlab/data/2010%20Rohr%20and%20McCoy%20Cons.% 20Lett.%20Supp.%20Mat.pdf Cheers, Jason Rohr
