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.
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.
Continue reading The Air Quality Science Fraud Empire strikes back
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 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.
Source: E&E News ($)
Dr. John Dunn comments on the claim that poor air quality in London caused the tragic death of this child.
Continue reading Dr. Dunn comments on the NYTimes claim that London air quality killed a child
Just how stupid was the Obama EPA mercury rule for coal-fired power plants? You won’t believe it.
Below is this morning’s attack on EPA CASAC chair Tony Cox for allowing the American Petroleum Institute the opportunity for input on some of his research. But Cox has been open and honest about this and the affair is a nothing-burger — quite the opposite of some EPA-funded Harvard and Syracuse researchers JunkScience.com exposed in 2015.
Continue reading Double-standard in fake news attack on EPA CASAC chair Tony Cox
And the guys at Berkeley Earth ought to put out whatever they’ve been smoking and come down to Earth.
Continue reading No, breathing San Francisco air is not like smoking 11 cigarettes
I pointed this out in my Amazon.com best seller, “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA.”
Continue reading New smoking cessation study debunks EPA’s PM2.5-death claims
The Center for Biological Diversity is trying to shut down the coal plant at the University of North Carolina-Durham with a bogus emissions dispersion modeling study and a leftover Obama war-on-coal rule. JunkScience.com friend Rich Trzupek breaks it down. Must read.
That’s what the letter says. But it probably won’t be what you read in Fake News media accounts (ahem… Eric Lipton, I can’t wait for your report).
Enviros are trying to derail the Trump rollback of the Obama fuel economy standards by claiming that increased tailpipe emissions will kill people. As JunkScience.com readers know, this claims is total BS.
