Claim: Air pollution linked to atherosclerosis
It’s debatable whether smoking causes atherosclerosis, a condition that develops naturally and could be affected by myriad other factors. The notion of ambient air quality causing it is ridiculous.
Search Results for: pm2.5
Study: Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased deaths after heart attacks
Quite a claim considering that the researchers have no idea how much PM2.5 any subject was exposed to and no medical evidence anyone was killed by PM2.5. Also of note, the EPA-funded University of Rochester tested PM<sub<2.5 on heart attack victims circa 2007-2008.
WashTimes: Judge nixes case against EPA human experiments
By Steve Milloy February 13, 2013, Washington Times It’s a good thing the U.S Public Health Service called off the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments in 1972. Had someone sued to stop the horror, a federal judge like the Anthony Trenga might have stopped the suit — not the experiments.
Senators Question EPA Air Regulation Rule Over Human Testing
Sens. Vitter and Sessions write: “Maybe the biggest reason to slow down [EPA’s new PM2.5] rule is that the EPA is talking out of both sides of their mouth.
EPA Science Is the ‘New Homeopathy,’ Doctors State
“Either the EPA is lying to Congress about the lethality of PM2.5, or it is engaged in illegal and unethical human experiments, subjecting vulnerable patients to a substance it believes could kill them instantly,” states Jane Orient, M.D., president of Physicians for Civil Defense.
Rules would restrict medical research on chimpanzees
But EPA is free to experiment on humans with deadly PM2.5?
China’s bad air puts the lie to EPA scare tactics
By Steve Milloy January 22, 2013, Washington Times China’s notoriously bad air has recently been especially hard to breathe. It also shows that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) science is especially hard to believe.
Still no bodies from Chinese air pollution spike
One U.S. ex-pat general practitioner claims he’s seeing more patients with respiratory problems, but no reports of deaths so far.
Beijing air pollution off the charts
This is EPA’s chance (via natural vs. illegal human experiment) to show that PM2.5 kills.
EPA's new air rule made illegal by human experiments
Don’t take my word for it… take EPA’s.
Chutzpah: EPA lies about human testing in new air pollution rule
EPA’s Federal Register announcement of the new PM2.5 air quality standards contains flat-out falsehoods about the agency’s human testing program.
House calls on Obama EPA to release secret data behind looming air rule
“Prior to finalizing the new rule, the Committee leaders said “it is essential that EPA and the White House make the underlying data linking PM2.5 and mortality publicly available in a manner sufficient for analysis by independent scientists and researchers.” [House Science Committee]