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Industry document says PFAS are ‘highly toxic’?

This morning I came across this story in The Guardian.

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Chemical industry sues EPA and National Academy of Sciences over rigged formaldehyde review

EPA conspired with the National Academy of Sciences to rig the NAS review of EPA’s toxicological assessment of formaldehyde, alleges the American Chemistry Council. The allegation is undoubtedly true. Here is the complaint and here is Fox News coverage.

EPA trying to railroad the formaldehyde risk assessment

One of the of the first regulatory controversies I was involved in when I started working on environmental issues in 1990 was the formaldehyde risk assessment. The controversy continues to this day with an impatient EPA trying to ram through a rigged risk assessment. That alone should tell what you need to know about any junk science-fueled alarm over formaldehyde — a much-studied and well-understood chemical. Here is a fact sheet on the EPA formaldehyde railroad prepared by the American Chemistry Council. Also check out the related letter from ACC, and this letter from Ohio Congressman Mike Carey to the rogue EPA.

EPA passes on perchlorate regulation

Here is the news from E&E News. My 2002 FOXNews.com column on perchlorate is below. Here is the EPA decision.

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Do PFAS cause early menopause?

A new study claims that women with high PFAS levels in their blood samples reached menopause two years earlier than those with lower levels. Credible?

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Exposed & Debunked: The Endocrine Disrupter Scare

JunkScience has been on top of the always-bogus endocrine disrupter scare since its beginning in March 1996.

Here is our first post on it.
In 2000, JunkScience followed up with “Our Swollen Future: The 60 Minuts Interview“.
Twenty-three years later the scare has finally been debunked with the final coup de grace being delivered by the FDA and its CLARITY study.

Now, JunkScience.com has compiled “The Endocrine Disrupter Scare,” a history of the scare.

Stan Young backs Milloy Wall Street Journal op-ed on endocrine disruptors

JunkScience.com friend, the great Stan Young scores a letter in the Wall Street Journal in support go Steve Milloy’s op-ed from earlier this week.

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Bad Science May Banish Paper Receipts

My op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal about the debunking of the BPA scare.

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Children are NOT more sensitive /vulnerable to chemicals in the environment

Let’s review the nonsense in today’s New York Times op-ed by notorious junk scientist goofballs Phil Landrigan (Mt. Sinai) and Lynn Goldman (George Washington University).

Mt. Sinai’s Phil Landrigan, a health scare dinosaur who admitted long ago that legally applied pesticides hurt no one.

GWU’s Lynn Goldman, who leaped to embrace the infamous 1996 Tulane University endocrine disrupter study that was eventually retracted as science fraud.

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Claim: Lead causes 250,000 heart disease deaths per year

This is study is evidence of nothing. Bruce Lanphear is a long-time lead scare profiteer.

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Feds propose to give BPA clean bill of health

The draft CLARITY-BPA report should go a long way toward sweeping the “endocrine disrupter” scare into the ash bin of junk science history. BTW, JunkScience.com was there to point out the scare’s stupidity from the very beginning IN 1996.