75 years ago… New York Times debunks (vs. foments) a health scare

From the May 9, 1943 edition, the New York Times defuses a new claim that declining soil fertility is causing all sorts of human health problems by pointing out that chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease are primarily diseases associated with aging — which is what wealthy and healthy populations in developed countries tend to do.



Trump’s Tariffs: A Tool for Free Trade

No, it’s not NOT Smoot-Hawley all over again.

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Oops… Volvo lobbyist (literally) wrote the letter for congressman to press EPA against repeal of glider rule

West Virginia Congressman Evan Jenkins (R-Volvo) should run away from the ongoing swamp effort to kill the glider truck industry.

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Claim: Smoking one cigarette per day as risky as smoking 10 cigarettes per day

More absurdity from the anti-tobacco junk science mob.

Sir Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991). Famed epidemiologist who mercifully died before he could witness the gross abuse of his beloved field.

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Claim: Racism causes smoking

So stupid.

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CARB robs $2.5 million from port terminal operator SSA Containers; Money given to promote air quality-childhood asthma propaganda

If CARB is so worried about the impact of diesel exhaust on children, why aren’t USC and UCLA researchers in jail?

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‘With no proven environmental benefit whatsoever…’

What Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray had to say with respect to Obama’s war-on-coal in comments on the Trump EPA’s proposed repeal of the Obama’s EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Below is how Murray summarized the cost to industry. It does not begin to reckon the cost of lost jobs to miners, their families and communities.

Read Murray’s full comment here.

File your comments on the proposed repeal of the CPP here. Deadline is January 16, 2018.

Claim: Public health factors may have affected 2016 US presidential election results

There is no end to progressive idiocy.

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DHHS Acting Secretary Helped Cover Up Illegal EPA Human Experiments

Don Wright. Corruptocrat. Read pages 66-67 of “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA” for the story.

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Claim: 5,000 deaths annually from dieselgate in Europe

I’m defending the car industry because it is too stupid to defend itself.

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Bastardi: No Michael Mann — Climate change did not cause Hurricane Harvey

Meteorologist Joe Bastardi takes down fake Nobelist Michael Mann’s lame effort in the Guardian to link climate with Hurricane Harvey.

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