The Data on BPA and Breast Cancer

“BPA And Breast Cancer: When Academics Spin Statistics,” by Trevor Butterworth.
A new study, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and published in a journal the institute subsidizes – Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) – raises an alarm. This is not, in itself, unusual; EHP is a repository of alarming claims about the environment; but what makes this study different – and alarming in its own terms – is not the claim that “human relevant” exposure to BPA causes breast cancer in rodents (as declared in the title of the paper: Perinatally Administered Bisphenol A Acts as a Mammary Gland Carcinogen in Rats), it’s that when you look at the statistical data there is no meaningful relationship between BPA and cancer whatsoever. The data presented are completely at odds with the claims made by the researchers. Read the full article on Forbes.com.