Correct

Science News, Nov 24, 2001

Correct. It's incorrect. The text should have read: "In PBDEs and thyroid hormones, an atom of oxygen bridges the rings, whereas PCBs are linked by carbon-carbon bonds." Therefore, says Thomas A. McDonald of California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, PBDEs structurally resemble thyroid hormones even more closely than they resemble PCBs

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