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Nature 445, 709 (15 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445709a; Published online 14 February 2007

US air pollution is harmful and fine particles can kill

Steve Moorhouse1

  1. Environmental Health Division, Milton Keynes Council, Civic Offices, Milton Keynes MK9 3HH, UK

Your Special Report on air pollution in the United States ("The politics of breathing" Nature 444, 248–249; 2006) has been criticized for accepting the conclusions of "two large, well-respected epidemiological studies" that long-term exposure to fine particles in the air is associated with increased mortality. Suresh Moolgavkar, in Correspondence ("Pollution analysis flawed by statistical model" Nature 445, 21; doi:10.1038/445021c 2007

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