About the Authors

John C. Besley

jbesley@msu.edu

Affiliation College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Aaron M. McCright

Affiliation Lyman Briggs College, Department of Sociology, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Nagwan R. Zahry

Affiliation College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Kevin C. Elliott

Affiliations Lyman Briggs College, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Norbert E. Kaminski

Affiliation Institute for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Joseph D. Martin

Affiliations Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Norbert Kaminsky has received research funding from the Dow Chemical Company. This research is not directly related to the current project. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JCB AMM KCE NEK JDM. Data curation: JCB AMM NZ. Formal analysis: JCB AMM NZ. Funding acquisition: KCE. Investigation: JCB AMM NZ. Methodology: JCB AMM KCE NEK JDM. Project administration: KCE. Visualization: JCB AMM NZ. Writing – original draft: JCB AMM. Writing – review & editing: JCB AMM KCE NZ NEK JDM.