From RegBlog: Time to Discard the Precautionary Principle at the CPSC
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JUNKSCIENCE IN ACTION
- 2013
- Steve Milloy talks about EPA’s illegal human testing on CRF Radio (June 1)
- Uncovering EPA's Secret Science (May 29)
- Steve Milloy dishes on environmentalism on C-SPAN TV
- Is the University of Rochester trying to hide its illegal human experiments? (May 15)
- JunkScience was right! 400 ppm CO2 level not reached last week, NOAA admits (May 13)
- JunkScience instrumental in blocking vote on EPA nominee McCarthy (May 9)
- EPA fails to explain deletion of illegal diesel experiment on children from data base (April 25)
- More Ground Zero Junk Science (April 24)
- Another dim bulb for energy April 12
- EPA un-scrubs data base of experiment exposing children to diesel exhaust (March 22)
- Must-Watch Video: NBC-17 reports on human testing personal injury claim against EPA (March 21)
- EPA sued for $2 million by human testing victim; Injured by exposures to high levels of chlorine, diesel exhaust and ozone — without informed consent (March 20)
- Chlorine gas possibly used in Syria -- but definitely used on people by the EPA: Another shocking human experiment (March 20)
- UWashington Letter to Human Guinea Pigs: Oops…we exposed you to a carcinogen! (March 18)
- EPA human testing scandal extends to University of Washington; Study subjects not told diesel exhaust can kill March 12
- EPA accused of hacking private e-mail to block investigation of misdeeds at Montana Superfund site (March 11)
- NBC-17 Investigates: State bill could shut down EPA experiments (March 7)
- North Carolina bill would make EPA human experiments a felony (March 6)
- Victory: JunkScience forces Juliet Eilperin out of WaPo environment beat March 4
- EPA scrubs database of air pollution experiment on children? February 25
- WashTimes: Judge nixes case against EPA human experiments (February 13)
- Senators Question EPA Air Regulation Rule Over Human Testing (February 5)
- Human testing lawsuit dismissed; Court lacks jurisdiction to hear case against EPA February 1
- NBC-17 Video Report: Alleged conflicts of interest in controversial EPA experiments February 1
- North Carolina Medical Board rife with conflicts of interest in EPA human testing controversy January 29
- North Carolina Medical Board refuses to discipline EPA human testing docs January 29
- China’s bad air puts the lie to EPA scare tactics January 22
- EPA’s illegal human experiments could break Nuremberg Code (January 1)
- 2012
- Chutzpah: EPA lies about human testing in new air pollution rule (December 17)
- EPA-funded University of Rochester researchers test deadly air pollutant on diabetics (December 16)
- Medical Journal Article Calls EPA Human Experiments Illegal and Unethical (December 11)
- Shock: EPA exposes human guinea pigs to lead; Agency ignores own ‘no safe’ exposure determination (December 10)
- What’s EPA Smoking? (December 3)
- Divine Right of EPA: Agency says it’s above the law on human testing (November 25)
- EPA asks court to dismiss human testing lawsuit (November 23)
- NBC-17 Investigates: Inspector General investigating EPA testing in Chapel Hill (November 19)
- EPA Inspector General Announces Investigation of Illegal Human Testing (November 16)
- Carbon Tax is Pointless and Inflationary (November 14)
- EHP refuses to investigate EPA researcher misconduct (November 5)
- New documents prove falsification in EPA air study; JunkScience renews retraction request (October 31)
- EPA’s Dirty, Dark Secret October 23
- NBC-17: Congress wants probe of human testing claims at UNC-CH (October 20)
- House Committee requests investigation into illegal EPA human testing (October 19)
- EPA’s illegal human experiments (October 18)
- Teenager died in 1996 government-funded air pollution experiment at Univ. Rochester; University now using diabetics as air pollution guinea pigs (October 12)
- Video: Steve Milloy on Illegal EPA Human Testing (October 11)
- EPA Free to Gas Sick People: Court Denies TRO Against EPA for Human Testing Citing Jursidiction (October 9)
- EPA admits to Court: Human subjects ‘may die’ from air pollution experiments (October 5)
- EPA invokes Fifth Amendment with media in human testing scandal? (October 2)
- Inhofe Asks for Hearing on EPA’s Alleged Conducting of Illegal Human Experiments (October 1)
- North Carolina Medical Board Continues Investigation of EPA Doctors in Human Testing Scandal; Case Closed for UNC Doc (October 1)
- Must-See Video: NBC-17 (WNCN-Raleigh) Report on Illegal EPA Human Testing (September 28)
- Court Asked for Emergency Restraining Order Against EPA Human Testing (September 28)
- Washington Examiner: EPA accused of illegal human experimentation September 27
- EPA comments on human testing lawsuit; Claims UNC is ‘independent’; Records show otherwise (September 26)
- North Carolina Medical Board Opens Investigation of Another EPA Doc (September 25)
- EPA sued in federal court for conducting illegal human experiments (September 24)
- JunkScience.com Announces EPAHumanTesting.com (September 18) | Models, not climate, are hypersensitive to carbon dioxide (August 24)
- Top Federal Scientist Expects EPA Stonewalling, Lying About Human Experiments (July 20)
- Video: Milloy exposes EPA’s outlaw human experiments at Locke Foundation July 17
- UNC to investigate ghastly EPA human experiments (July 2)
- NIEHS stonewalls on EPA researcher misconduct (June 28)
- North Carolina Medical Board to investigate EPA physicians over human experiments (June 27)
- Update: Ozone, Asthma Hospitalizations (Still) Not Linked in Los Angeles 2009-2012-1st Quarter) (June 14)
- North Carolina Medical Board asked to investigate EPA physicians for illegal human experiments (June 13)
- No Time for Bioethics at Presidential Bioethics Commission (June 4)
- NIH asked to investigate misconduct at Environmental Health Perspectives in EPA Human Testing Scandal (June 1)
- EPA asked to investigate scientific misconduct (May 23)
- EPA Inspector General Asked to Investigate Illegal Human Experimentation (May 14)
- Journal editor rejects Milloy request to retract false case report of EPA human experiment (May 8)
- EPA denies Milloy charge of conducting unethical human experiments; Facts show otherwise (May 2)
- Banning junk science from Capitol Hill (May 1)
- Did Obama’s EPA relaunch Tuskegee experiments? (Apr. 25)
- EPA human experiments debunk notion of ‘killer’ air pollution: Agency hides exculpatory results (Apr. 18)
- EPA admits deleting grants to Gleick: Claims mysterious tech glitch (Apr. 16)
- GOP is MIA on EPA overreach (Mar. 30)
- Ozone, Asthma Hospitalizations Not Linked in Los Angeles 2009-2011 (Mar. 28)
- EPA IG to investigate EPA air science advisers (Mar. 26)
- IPCC: Mann's claim of receiving Nobel Prize is wrong (Mar. 22)
- JunkScience exposes corrupt EPA science advisory board (Mar. 8)
- Climate’s Stolen Valor: Did Mann lie about coining ‘Atlantic multidecadal oscillation’? (Mar. 7)
- EPA Science Advisors Not So ‘Independent’ (Mar. 4)
- Flashback: JunkScience predicts outcome of EPA ‘endangerment finding’ litigation (Feb. 29)
- EPA ‘Stalinizes’ JunkScience FOIA request about Gleick (Feb. 27)
- Sneaky: EPA restores Gleick grants to Grant Awards Database (Feb. 25)
- More grants to Gleick scrubbed from EPA Grants Database (Feb. 24)
- Winning! JunkScience forces Emanuel to disclose insurance employers (Feb. 24)
- EPA scrubs grants database of Gleick grants? (Feb. 23)
- Showdown at the EPA Corral (Feb. 22)
- Gleick admits to Heartland deception in 'Deniergate' (Feb. 20)
- LATimes cites ‘Mein Kampf’ to attack Heartland (Feb. 20)
- Air pollution not correlated with asthma hospitalizations, reports new JunkScience.com study (Feb. 7)
- Clean Energy Hostages (Feb. 1)
- Shocker: Chinese air pollution debunks U.S. EPA junk science (Jan. 5)
The Precautionary Principle is a way of saying that nobody should do anything that hasn’t been proven perfectly safe.
Given that nothing can possibly be proven ‘perfectly safe,’ the effect is to ban ALL innovations. Had people followed this ‘principle’ from the start, we would still be inintelligent vegetarian primates.
Logic, common sense, and reason all dictate that we should evaluate the risks and benefits of any action – and then throw the dice. For example, banning something like fire retardant chemicals could possibly reduce inhalation exposure to halogenated hydrocarbons, but would inevitably lead to the much more deadly inhalation exposure to smoke.
The twentieth century was the century of chemicals, from explosives to pesticides to thalidomide, yet life expectancy rose from 47 to 77. CPSC is an idiotic waste and the pediatric specialty should be outlawed if it does not clean up its act.
People on both sides of the debate over the Precautionary Principle forget that it is in widespread usage, and has been, for millennia. People are really eager to make sure that new technologies are safe to use, and spend countless dollars and hours in the laboratory and elsewhere for that very purpose. After all, dangerous products are very bad for business. It’s only recently that this degree of care has been given A Name and weaponized for the culture wars.