Selected Publications
Kristin Shrader-Frechette

For a full list of Dr. Shrader-Frechette's publications, please refer to her curriculum vitae.

For Dr. Shrader-Frechette's selected op-ed pieces from newspapers, click here.

2018 "Human Rights against Polluters: More than Protecting 'Susceptible' Populations" American Journal of Bioethics 18, no. 3: 29-41.
2017 "How Some Scientists and Engineers Contribute to Environmental Injustice," US National Academy of Engineering: The Bridge 47, no. 1: 36-44.
2017 "Pesticides, Neurodevelopmental Disagreement, and Bradford Hill's Guidelines," with Christopher ChoGlueck, Accountability in Research 24, no. 1; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2016.1203786.
2016 "Biased Dismissal of Epigenetic Evidence for 'Clean-Diesel' Carcinogenicity and Genotoxicity," with Catherine McQuestion, Austin Journal of Genetics and Genomic Research 3, no 1; 1019; ISSN : 2471-030X.
2015 "Flawed Science Delays Smelter Cleanup and Worsens Health," with M. Spear and R. Thomas, Accountability in Research 22, no. 1: 41-60; doi: 10.1080/08989621.2014.939746.
2015 "State-Variable and Representativeness Errors Conceal 'Clean Diesel' Harm: Methodologically Fallacious ACES Research," Journal of Environment and Health Sciences 1, no. 3; doi: 10.15436/2378-6841.15.019
2015 "Resolving Scientific Controversy over Smelter Risks and Neurodegenerative Effects of Metals," with R. Thomas, AIMS Environmental Science 2: 42-72.
2015 "Flawed Scientific-Evidence Standards and Diesel Regulations," with A. Pusateri, Accountability in Research 22, no. 3: 162-191.
2015 "Taking Action on Developmental Toxicity," in Environmental Hazards and Neurodevelopment, Apple Academic Press, pp. 307-338.
2015 "Rights to Know and the Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island Accidents," in Nuclear Ethics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-66.
2014 "Taking Action to Stop Pollution Harm to Children and Future Generations," Russian Academy of Sciences 3: 250-258.
2013 "Biomass and Effects of Airborne Ultrafine Particulates,"Biological Theory 8: 44-48.
2013 "Lessons on Drought and Pollution from the Forgotten Three Billion," Global Health Perspectives 1: 55-62 (with B. Kunycky).
2013 "Renewable Technologies and Environmental Injustice: Subsidizing Bioenergy, Promoting Inequity," Environmental Justice 6: 88-93 (with W. Preisser)
2012 "Taking Action on Developmental Toxicity," Environmental Health 11:61.
2012 "Nuclear Catastrophe, Disaster-Related Environmental Injustice, and Fukushima," Environmental Justice 5: 133-139.
2012 "Randomization and Rules for Causal Inferences in Biology," Biological Theory 6:154-161.
2011 "Symmetrical Transparency in Science," Science, 332:663-664 (with N. Oreskes).
2011 "Myths about Nuclear Reliability, Radiation, and Markets," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2011.
2011 "Fukushima, Flawed Epistemology, and Black-Swan Events," Ethics, Policy, and Environment, 14: 267-271.
2011 "Cheaper, Safer Alternatives Than Nuclear Fission," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 2011.
2011 "Climate Change, Nuclear Economics, and Conflicts of Interest," Science and Engineering Ethics, 17:75-107.
2010 "Nuclear Waste, Knowledge Waste," Science 329, no. 5993 (13 August): 762-63; with Gene Rosa et al.
2010 "Conceptual Analysis and Special-Interest Science: Toxicology and the Case of Edward Calabrese," Synthese 177, no: 3: 449-469.
2009 "Greenhouse Emissions and Nuclear Energy," Modern Energy Review 1, no. 1 (August 2009): 54-57.
2009 "Data Trimming, Nuclear Emissions, and Climate Change," Science and Engineering Ethics 15 (2009):19-23.
2009 "Environmental Injustice in Nuclear-Plant Siting," coauthored with Mary Alldred, Environmental Justice 2, no. 2, doi:10.1089/env.2008.0544 (June 2009): 85-96.
2008 "Ideological Toxicology: Invalid Logic, Science, and Ethics about Low-Dose Exposures," Biological Effects of Low-Level Exposures 14, no.4 (January 2008): 3-47; also in Human Experimental Toxicology 27 (2008): 647-657.
2008 "Evidentiary Standards and Animal Data," Environmental Justice, 1, no. 3 (2008): 139-144.
2007 "Relative Risk and Methodological Rules for Causal Inferences," Biological Theory 2, no. 4 (2007): 332-336.
2007 "Human Rights and Duties to Alleviate Environmental Injustice," Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 6.
2007 "Trimming Exposure Data, Putting Radiation Workers at Risk," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 97.
2005 "Mortgaging the Future: Dumping Ethics with Nuclear Waste," Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 11.
2005 "Radiobiology and Gray Science,"  Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 11.
2005 "Property Rights and Genetic Engineering," Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol. 11.
2004  "Comparativist Rationality and Epidemiological Epistemology: Theory Choice in Cases of Nuclear-Weapons Risk," Topoi, Vol. 2.
2004 "Measurement Problems and Florida Panther Models," Southeastern Naturalist , Vol. 3.

2002

"Ethical, logical and scientific problems with the new ICRP proposals," Journal of Radiological Protection, Vol. 22.

2001

"Using a Thought Experiment to Clarify a Radiobiological Controversy," Synthese: International Journal in Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 128.

2001

"Radiobiological Hormesis, Methodological Value Judgments, and Metascience," Perspectives on Science, Vol. 8.

2001

"Non-Indigenous Species and Ecological Explanation," Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 16.

2001

"Workplace Pollution: Nuclear Safety, Ethics, and the Exploitation-Avoidance Argument," Risk, Vol. 12.

2001

"Natural Rights and Human Vulnerability," Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 16.

2001

"MacIntyre on Human Rights," Modern Schoolman, Vol. 79.

2000

"Evaluation of the Ethical Principles of Radiation Protection Standards for Workers," Health Physics, Vol. 80.

1996

"Environmental Racism and Biased Methods of Risk Assessment," Risk, Vol. 7.

1996

"Nuclear Waste: The Academy and Million-Year Estimates," Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 71.

1996

"Calculated Risks," Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 11.

1996

"Science versus Educated Guessing," BioScience, Vol. 46.

1995

"Evaluating the Expertise of Experts," Risk, Vol. 6.

1995

"Practical Ecology and Foundations for Environmental Ethics," Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 92.

1994

"Verification, Validation, and Confirmation of Numerical Models," Science, Vol. 263.

1994

"Applied Ecology and the Logic of Case Studies," Philosophy of Science, Vol 61.

1994

"High-Level Waste, Low-Level Logic," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 50.

1994

"Science, Environmental Risk Assessment, and the Frame Problem," BioScience, Vol. 44.

1993

"Locke and Limits on Land Ownership," Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 54.

1988

"Parfit, Risk Assessment, and Imperceptible Effects," Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 2.

1987

"Parfit and Mistakes in Moral Mathematics," Ethics, Vol. 98.


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