Summary

The EPA Human Experiments: Agency Scientists Ignore Rules for the Protection of Human Subjects Established After World War II and Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments Overview Since at least 2004 and up through the Obama administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been secretly testing highly toxic/lethal air pollutants on unhealthy human study subjects for the … Continue reading Summary

Milloy Makes Additional FOIA Requests of EPA

Second and third FOIA requests were sent to the EPA on April 20, 2012. The second request asked for: For the human experiments listed in the response to FOIA Request No. HQ-FOI-02235-11, I am requesting copies of the (1) the protocols and consent forms that were approved by the University of North Carolina (UNC) School … Continue reading Milloy Makes Additional FOIA Requests of EPA

EPA responds to Milloy’s initial FOIA request

The EPA responded on November 21, 2011 to Milloy’s request made under the Freedom of Information Act for the results of human experiments similar or related to the Case Report. The response (below, click to enlarge) shows that, since 2010, the EPA has conducted at least 41 experiments during which humans were exposed to varying … Continue reading EPA responds to Milloy’s initial FOIA request

Discovery of EPA Wrongdoing

On September 15, 2011, JunkScience.com publisher Steve Milloy noted a new article entitled, “Case report: Supraventricular Arrhythmia Following Exposure to Concentrated Ambient Air Pollution Particles,” (“Case Report”) which had been published on September 6, 2011 in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The Case Report described a 58-year old woman with a … Continue reading Discovery of EPA Wrongdoing

Historical Context: War Crimes to First Principles

The historical context of the EPA human experimentation scandal begins with the horrific human experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II.These experiments included the secret administration of poisons to Buchenwald prisoners to see what would happen. Twenty three Nazi doctors were subsequently tried by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in what is known … Continue reading Historical Context: War Crimes to First Principles

California Governor Newsom makes false claim about children, asthma and tailpipe emissions

In announcing his legally dubious ban of gasoline-powered cars in California by 2035, Gov. Newsom stated, “You deserve to have a car that doesn’t give your kids asthma.” JunkScience.com readers will recall that EPA-funded UCLA and USC researchers in the 2000s to spray diesel exhaust up the noses of children as young as 10 years … Continue reading California Governor Newsom makes false claim about children, asthma and tailpipe emissions

Dirty Deeds: EPA Inspector General Whitewashes Rogue Testing of Glider Trucks

I’m not surprised. The EPA IG is corrupt. JunkScience.com readers will recall, for example, the EPA IG whitewash of EPA’s illegal human testing. BTW, who puts the conclusion in the title of an IG report?

Duke University pays feds $112.5 million in science fraud case

Duke University will pay $112.5 million to the United States Government to settle Thomas v. Duke, a lawsuit alleging that a research technician improperly falsified and fabricated data from 2006 to 2013 to obtain research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies, the university announced Monday. This case includes air … Continue reading Duke University pays feds $112.5 million in science fraud case

The Endocrine Disrupter Scare

By Steve Milloy JunkScience.com, March 2019 Background: What is an “endocrine disruptor”? An endocrine disruptor (also called an “environmental estrogen”) is supposedly any one of a variety of chemicals that, at extremely low-level exposures, well below those considered safe by EPA and other regulatory authorities, disrupt the human or animal hormonal system to cause diseases … Continue reading The Endocrine Disrupter Scare