Category: Air Quality

Milloy presentation to EPA CASAC re claim that PM kills

The (resistance) EPA staff continues to insist that particulate matter in outdoor air kills people. Today the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) took public comment on EPA’ most recent scientific assessment. Below are my (killer) oral comments that explain the entire PM fraud in five minutes.

Brigham Young University’s epidemiology fraudster C. Arden Pope, III.

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Hair Pollution: Particulate matter ‘linked’ to hair loss

Just one question… where was the epidemic of baldness in, say, 1950s America or in China/India today? Just askin’ for a friend.

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More real-world evidence that PM2.5 in outdoor doesn’t kill

A new study in JAMA reports that among people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years, the risk of cardiovascular disease returns to that of a nonsmoker for 10-15 years after quitting. Here’s what this means for PM2.5 in outdoor air.

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US Air Quality Isn’t Slipping: Taking a Closer Look at the Data

JunkScience.com friend and air quality expert Rich Trzupek sets the record straight concerning the recent erroneous Associated Press report that US air quality has deteriorated under the Trump administration. BTW, I had requested a couple weeks ago a copy of the research report the AP claimed to have done, but AP reporter Seth Borenstein has so far failed to produce it.

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Hypocrite of the Day: CARB Chief Mary Nichols

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has sued the Trump administration over the proposed freezing of the Obama administration’s fuel economy standards. JunkScience.com suggests the Trump administration respond to CARB chief Mary Nichols the way she responded to Congress in 1997.

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JunkScience and friends make the resistance howl on PM2.5

EPA CASAC fossil Bernie Goldstein howls in the Washington Post at the changes at EPA regarding PM2.5. From JunkScience.com and its friends… you are all very welcome.

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Stan Young study exposes publication bias, p-hacking, and junk meta analysis in environmental epidemiology — and rubbishes a highly-cited air quality paper in the process

Since the days of the EPA secondhand smoke risk assessment, JunkScience.com has had contempt for the bogus statistical technique of meta-analysis. We have also taken the lead in exposing as fraud claims that ambient air quality kills people. JunkScience.com friend Stan Young has just published a new paper dismantling a major 2012 air quality study (headlined below) as the product of publication bias and p-hacking, thus exposing its meta analysis methodology as just a bunch of junk.

The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) · 17 Feb 2012, Fri · Page 15

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The Air Quality Science Fraud Empire strikes back

Thanks to EPA Administrator Wheeler, CASAC chair Tony Cox and other Trump administration appointees, EPA is moving away from the air quality science fraud spotlighted in my 2016 book “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA.” This week the Air Quality Science Fraud Empire strikes back with a one-lie-after-another commentary in Science magazine.

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