@article{48c4a816e5d4481c99225a20ff79ce17,
title = "Landsbergis et al. respond",
author = "Paul Landsbergis and Eckardt Johanning and Marco Stillo",
note = "Funding Information: Finally, Thiese et al. fail to mention in the text of the letter that his co‐authors Dr. Hegmann, Mr. Weames, and Mr. Page are long‐term designated defense experts for major American railroad companies, although their conflict‐of‐interest statements do indicate varying degrees of the provision of legal testimony. Mr. Page, author along with Mr. Weames of the unpublished studies cited by Thiese et al., testified in 2014 that he had previously worked for the Association of American Railroads (AAR), and, since he founded Page Engineering, the firm has received about \$13 million from the AAR and major railroads, including payments for evaluations and testimony in lawsuits. Thiese et al. admit to partial funding from the AAR, an industry trade group representing primarily the major freight railroads of North America. Dr. Thiese fails to mention in his letter that, in an earlier request for our full study data, he stated that {\textquotedblleft}we were asked by the Association of American Railroads to read your articles and provide our opinion{\textquotedblright} (Dr. M. Thiese, personal email, October 16, 2020, available upon request). 27 Funding Information: We thank the members of our study's Advisory Board for their review of this reply to the letter to the editor: Dr. Massimo Bovenzi, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy (retired); Prof. Carel TJ Hulshof, MD, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (retired); Dipl. Ing. Uwe Kaulbars, Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Statutory Accident Insurance (DGUV/IFA), Sankt Augustin, Germany (retired); Ren G. Dong, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Branch Chief, Engineering and Control Technology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, Morgantown, WV.",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1002/ajim.23263",
language = "English",
volume = "64",
pages = "717--720",
journal = "American Journal of Industrial Medicine",
issn = "0271-3586",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Inc.",
number = "8",
}