In 2012, the American Tradition Institute sued EPA for conducting illegal human experiments involving PM2.5. The Department of Justice filed this memo in response to the ATI’s motion for a temporary restraining order against EPA. Two pages, excerpted below, expose the EPA’s PM2.5 con as follows:
- EPA says epidemiologic studies are the primary evidence against PM2.5.
- EPA admits epidemiologic studies provide only evidence of statistical correlation not causation-in-fact, in this case between inhaling PM2.5 and adverse health effects, including death.
- To determine biological plausibility for the notion that PM2.5 harms health,EPA conducted experiments in which humans were made to inhale extreme levels of PM2.5.
- In its CAPTAIN line of studies, for example, EPA paid 297 human volunteers to inhale extreme levels of PM2.5.
- Despite the extreme exposures, no study subject was harmed by PM2.5 in any way.
- The human experiments did not validate the correlations reported in epidemiological studies.
- The EPA ignored the results of the human experiments and regulations and regulated PM2.5 anyway.
