title: Systematic considerations in the area of multiple chemical sensitivity.
abstract: Many workers who speculate about multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) have devised a large number of hypothetical constructs designed to explain the phenomena. Too often these are not logically connected to the larger body of scientific thought but instead appeal to ideas not documented in accessible literature and often appearing metaphysical in nature.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711, USA. benignus.vernon@epamail.epa.gov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Benignus
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D018777:Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Q000209:etiology*; D012107:Research Design