title: Cognitive impairment associated with toxigenic fungal exposure: a response to two critiques.
abstract: Fox, Greiffenstein, and Lees-Haley (2005) and McCaffrey and Yantz (2005) criticized our 2004 article that reported neuropsychological evidence of cognitive impairment in a sample of individuals exposed to toxic molds who complained of cognitive difficulties (Gordon et al., 2004). They critiqued the study's justification, design, analyses, and conclusions and characterized it as poor epidemiology. This article is a rebuttal to their comments. It documents that both sets of negative comments are based on frequent inaccuracies, mischaracterizations of our findings, and red herrings. Furthermore, they failed to refute the implications of the study's main findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. wayne.gordon@mssm.edu
authors.forename: Wayne A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: Joshua B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Cantor
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Spielman
authors.forename: Teresa A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Ashman
authors.forename: Eckardt
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Johanning
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000523:psychology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D009181:Mycoses / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D012107:Research Design