The corruption of Harvard’s Francesca Dominici and Journal of the American Medical Association editor Howard Bauchner are gifts that keep giving.
Last week I exposed Dominici’s claim in JAMA that glider truck emissions kill 41,000 people per decade to be the product of a radical environmental group’s black box-processing of secret science.
So let’s have some more fun. Here’s the article‘s offending paragraph in question.
So simple math coverts 41,000 deaths per decade to 4,100 deaths per year. Even JAMA editor Bauchner can follow that.
Next, an emissions test that was conducted by researchers at Tennessee Tech University in 2017 shows that the PM2.5 emissions from glider trucks are comparable to the PM2.5 emissions from new trucks:
That’s right, head-to-head testing reveals that glider emissions are comparable to new truck emissions — and all PM2.5 emissions are below detection and a glider had the lowest NOx emissions.
Although glider haters have tried to assail this study, no one has challenged the validity of the actual results. The full results are on lockdown by the university because of the manufactured controversy surrounding this study. Even so, we can see that glider emissions are about the same as new truck emissions (i.e., sometimes slightly lower, sometimes the same, sometimes slightly higher).
So let’s move on to the number of trucks on the road.
There are about 33.8 million diesel trucks on the road, according to the glider-hating America Trucking Association. But there have only been about 38,000 gliders ever built.
Are you ready? Here goes.
So according to Harvard’s Francesca Dominici, glider truck emissions kill 4,100 people per year.
But since glider emissions are comparable to new truck emissions, simple proportions indicates that, according to Dominici’s math, new trucks kill about 3.65 million Americans per year. (4,100/38,000 = 3,646,842/33,800,000)
Unfortunately for Dominici (and JAMA editor Bauchner), there were only about 2.7 million deaths in America last year.
Since 3.65 million imaginary statistical deaths is greater than 2.7 million actual deaths (35 percent more) — not to mention that it is scarcely plausible that all deaths in the US are caused by truck emissions — there seems to be a problem with Dominici’s claim.
I’m not surprised. Are you? Who believes these people?
If you read “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA,” you’ll learn why no one dies from outdoor air and/or vehicle emissions and why epidemiology hacks like Francesca Dominici belong ought to be publicly exposed and humiliated for their obviously fraudulent claims.