May 2018 – JunkScience.com

On the need to restrain scientists

In his 1905 veto of what would have been the first and eugenics-aimed compulsory sterilization law in the U.S., Pennsylvania Gov. Samuel Pennypacker stated:

Scientists, like all other men whose experiences have been limited to one pursuit, and whose minds have been developed in a particular direction, sometimes need to be restrained. Men of high scientific attainments are prone, in their love for technique, to lose sight of broad principles outside of their domain of thought.

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LATimes Evan Halper propagandizes for Big Trucking against the glider truck industry

Here is my line-by-line of Evan Halper’s error-filled report in the Los Angeles Times.

The Los Angeles Times’ Evan Halper did a great job propagandizing for Big Trucking against the glider truck industry.

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‘Resistance’ games EPA Science Advisory Board meeting

By design, the public comment period at today’s EPA Science Advisory Board meeting will feature only Trump EPA opponents.

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Notice of Public Hearing for EPA Science Transparency Rule

If you’re going to be in Washington, DC on July 17, you can make oral comments on the EPA proposal. Click for the Federal Register notice.

Pope fails to find error in Enstrom’s 2017 reanalysis of Pope 1995 PM2.5 study

Arden Pope had 14 months to find an error in Jim Enstrom’s 2017 redo and takedown of Pope’s 1995 study. Despite Pope’s arm-waving no actual error was found.

Retired UCLA epidemiologist Jim Enstrom.

Here is the paragraph of Enstrom’s response:

Read Enstrom’s entire response published in Dose-Response.

Background/Additional Reading

Winning: Harvard’s Joel Schwartz Drops Laughable Claim That PM2.5 Epidemiological Correlations are ‘Strong’

The letters are finally published for last December’s junk science-powered PM2.5 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We made huge progress.

Harvard TC Cha School of Public Health air quality scamster Joel D. Schwartz. The walls are closing in, buddy.

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From Muller to Mechanism: How the LNT Model Became the Default Model for Cancer Risk Assessment

New from the great Ed Calabrese…. “The present paper reveals Muller did not discover what he claimed…”

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Will OMB Director Mulvaney Allow the Swamp to Destroy the Glider Truck Industry via an Obama EPA Rule?

Wait until President Trump finds out about this, Mick.

Flanking President Trump during a 2016 visit to a Fitzgerald Glider Kits facility are Tommy Fitzgerald, Sr. and Tommy Fitzgerald, Jr.

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EPA Extends Comment Period, Announces Public Hearing on Proposed Rule to Strengthen Science Transparency in EPA Regulations

There will be a public hearing in Washington DC on July 17. Comments due by August 17.

New Study: Still no association between PM2.5, ozone and premature death

This is a new PM2/5/ozone analysis from Stan Young et al. It uses a different methodology from last year’s California study on the same California data. Same answer, though. And the data is available from the study authors — something the EPA-funded air pollution mafia refuses to share.