By design, the public comment period at today’s EPA Science Advisory Board meeting will feature only Trump EPA opponents.
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Notice of Public Hearing for EPA Science Transparency Rule
If you’re going to be in Washington, DC on July 17, you can make oral comments on the EPA proposal. Click for the Federal Register notice.
Pope fails to find error in Enstrom’s 2017 reanalysis of Pope 1995 PM2.5 study
Arden Pope had 14 months to find an error in Jim Enstrom’s 2017 redo and takedown of Pope’s 1995 study. Despite Pope’s arm-waving no actual error was found.
Here is the paragraph of Enstrom’s response:
Read Enstrom’s entire response published in Dose-Response.
Background/Additional Reading
Winning: Harvard’s Joel Schwartz Drops Laughable Claim That PM2.5 Epidemiological Correlations are ‘Strong’
The letters are finally published for last December’s junk science-powered PM2.5 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. We made huge progress.
Will OMB Director Mulvaney Allow the Swamp to Destroy the Glider Truck Industry via an Obama EPA Rule?
Wait until President Trump finds out about this, Mick.
EPA Extends Comment Period, Announces Public Hearing on Proposed Rule to Strengthen Science Transparency in EPA Regulations
There will be a public hearing in Washington DC on July 17. Comments due by August 17.
New Study: Still no association between PM2.5, ozone and premature death
This is a new PM2/5/ozone analysis from Stan Young et al. It uses a different methodology from last year’s California study on the same California data. Same answer, though. And the data is available from the study authors — something the EPA-funded air pollution mafia refuses to share.
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Fake ‘science historian’ Naomi Oreskes attacks EPA science transparency proposal
Check out my line-by-line comments on her embarrassing essay in this week’s Nature.
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Air Pollution Mafia Attempting to Sabotage EPA Science Transparency Rulemaking
A memo prepared by the University of Washington’s Alison Cullen for the upcoming EPA Science Advisory Board meeting exposes the plot.
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MAGA Miracle: Op-ed by conservative economist in WaPo supporting EPA transparency rulemaking is EPA media release
The combination of the Washington Post printing an op-ed by a conservative economist supporting the Scott Pruitt-led EPA’s science transparency initiative, which then becomes an EPA media release… well, that just doesn’t happen every day!
Stanford science reformer Ioannidis exposes himself as incompetent or insincere — take your pick
I’ve always suspected that Stanford University professor John Ioannidis was only posing as a science reformer. His commentary in PLoS against the EPA science transparency rulemaking validates that.
Milloy’s 1994 groundbreaking report on EPA ‘science policy’ and ‘default assumptions’
Now finally available in PDF format, here is my 1994 report on science policy that the Clinton Administration tried to suppress. You can use it to comment on the just proposed EPA science transparency rule.
