<i>Stachybotrys chartarum</i>: cause of human disease or media darling?
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is a review of the literature of associations of the saprotrophic fungus Stachybotrys chartarum sensu lato with human and animal illnesses. This fungus grows on very wet cellulose-based building materials. S. chartarum has been the subject of considerable media attention because of temporal associations of exposure with unexpected and dramatic outcomes such as infant pulmonary hemosiderosis and neurocognitive damage. It is generally accepted that living or working in mouldy environments is associated with building related asthma, exacerbating asthma in mould-sensitive asthmatics and increased rates of upper respiratory disease. However, such relationships are with building-associated moulds, comprising many species that colonize wet or damp building materials, and are not specific to S. chartarum. There is limited evidence that severe lung damage can occur from building exposure to S. chartarum but possibly only under conditions of exposure that approach those associated with handling contaminated straw. There is no positive evidence in the literature to account for putative neurological damage resulting from exposure to this mould.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.048 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it