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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Category: Air Quality
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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Obama EPA grantees attempt to railroad Trump EPA on PM2.5
Find out what a $10 million grant from the Obama administration can produce.
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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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NO… PM2.5 is not reducing life expectancy in India
People will do anything but think.
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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 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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WINNING: EPA science advisory panel trashes draft EPA PM2.5 assessment as non-scientific, incomplete
The days of EPA science advisers rubber-stamping EPA staff’s regurgitation of the EPA-paid advisors own junk science have come to an end.
For historical background on the PM2.5 saga and PM2.5 science reality, read “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA.”
Obama EPA science advisor trying to stop Trump EPA science adviser from reviewing PM2.5 science
Obama EPA CASAC Chair Chris Frey is trying to stop Trump EPA CASAC Chair Tony Cox from asking questions about PM2.5 of EPA staff and the Health Effects Institute. Here are the questions Cox asked EPA staff. Here is Frey’s complaint. Below is an excerpt from today’s E&E News report on Frey’s bid to keep the Obama EPA’s PM2.5 fraud alive.
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Dr. Dunn comments on the NYTimes claim that London air quality killed a child
Dr. John Dunn comments on the claim that poor air quality in London caused the tragic death of this child.
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