Now we know what the PCBs-in-New-York-City-schools hysteria was all about. Continue reading PCBs in NYC Schools: Mystery Solved
Day: February 23, 2011
Air pollution worse than cocaine for MIs?
A new study in the Lancet reports that while cocaine use is much more likely to trigger a non-fatal heart attack than air pollution (i.e., coarse particulate matter or PM10), air pollution is the more deadly trigger because more people are exposed to it. Continue reading Air pollution worse than cocaine for MIs?
Greens threaten wind, solar permitting
Check out this Politico report about environmentalists threatening the permitting process for wind and solar projects: Continue reading Greens threaten wind, solar permitting
Sotomayor endorses vaccine-autism link?
Check out the Placebo Effect on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision concerning vaccines. It seems that Sotomayor hasn’t read the newspapers about the vaccine-autism fraud. Continue reading Sotomayor endorses vaccine-autism link?
Cell phones and brain glucose
Despite all the media coverage of yesterday’s report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that 50 minutes of cell phone use increases brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna, there is no cause for alarm. Continue reading Cell phones and brain glucose