EPA is seeking new members for its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Council (CASAC). Public comment is requested. Here is the list of who you should recommended to EPA and who you should advise EPA to skip.
Read the Federal Register announcement with theCASAC 2017 List of Candidates and their bios.
Read my recent Wall Street Journal op-ed to understand why it is important to rid CASAC of its EPA cronies and to restock CASAC with honest scientists.
Here are JunkScience.com’s suggested picks and pans. Please send your recommendations to Mr. Aaron Yeow at yeow.aaron@epa.gov no later than September 18, 2017.
More biographical detail on each pick/pan is in the Invitation for Public Comment:
PICKS — please recommend FOR them (in alphabetic order):
- Tony Cox — PhD in risk analysis. Consultant. Expert in air quality epidemiology. Multiple strong publications on air quality.
- Robert F. Phalen — Professor of Medicine, UC-Irvine. Co-driector at Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory. A long-time voice of scientific sanity inside the beast.
- Stan Young — PhD Statistican. Retired from National Institute of Statistical Sciences. Co-author of the California study debunking notion that PM2.5 kills.
PANS — please recommend AGAINST them (in alphabetic order):
- George A. Allen — Long-time EPA crony and air quality junk scientist. Conflict of interest ($3,907,111 in EPA grants). Has already served on CASAC.
- John R. Balmes. — Long-time EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) crony and junk scientist. Conflict of interest ($5,857,626 in EPA grants). Is already serving on the corrupted CASAC PM subcommittee (20125-2018).
- Bart Croes — Long-time EPA/CARB crony and air quality junk scientist.
- Ana Diez Roux — Long-time EPA crony and air quality junk scientist. Conflict of interest ($34,900,315 in EPA grants). Already served on CASAC. Is currently on corrupted CASAC PM Subcommittee (2015-2018).
- Mark Frampton — Long-time EPA crony and air quality junk scientist. Conducted illegal/unethical human experiments on behalf of EPA. Conflict of interest ($17,447,566 in EPA grants). Is already serving on corrupted CASAC PM Subcommittee (2015-2018).
- Rob McConnell — Long-time EPA crony and junk scientist. Conflict of interest ($19,561,006 in EPA grants). Is already serving on the corrupted CASAC PM subcommittee (2015-2018).
- Beate Ritz — Long-time EPA crony and air quality junk scientist. Conflict of intyerest ($14,215,263 in EPA grants).
- Armistead (Ted) Russell — Long-time EPA crony and air quality junk scientist. Conflict of interest ($22,309,779 in EPA grants).
- George Thurston — Long-time EPA crony and air quality junk scientist. Conflict of interest ($10,795,914 in EPA grants).
- Scott Zeger — Long-time EPA crony and air quality junk scientist. Conflict of interest ($9,526,921 in EPA grants).
Getting conflict-of-interest exposed and [hopefully] phased out of ‘scientific advisory’ groups in the US will [eventually] set a precedent for other countries……….
Go, S.M. and Co……
That is an astounding amount of money in grants. Well over 15 million each on average and over 138 Million in total.
I obviously picked the wrong profession.
I know these people on the list and every one of them would be good (of course, some better than others):
Dr. Ed Berry
Dr. Alan Carlin
Joe D’Aleo
Paul Driessen
Dr. Gordon Fulks
Dr. Craig Idso
Dr. David Legates
Steward Leighton
Dr. Don van der Vaart
Dr. Stan Young
— John Droz, jr, physicist
email address is incorrect for CASAC. Should read yeow.aaron@epa.gov