On September 19, 2011, EPA medical officer Dr. Ghio responded to Steve Milloy’s September 15 inquiry about the nature of the concentrated ambient particles as follows [Click to enlarge]: “Fine” ambient particles are known as PM2.5 (pronounced “P-M-2-point-5”). What is PM2.5 and how does the EPA view it? Below is how EPA introduces its website … Continue reading The Most Toxic Substance on Earth
EPA began implementing the principles of the Belmont Report in 1977 through EPA Order 1000.17, which was subsequently modified in 1999 and 2011 through EPA Order 1000.17 Change A1. As the EPA experiments in question commenced after 1999 but before the 2011 changes to EPA Order 1000.17, we will focus on the 1999 version of … Continue reading EPA Order 1000.17
The Common Rule is an extensive set of guidance for the protection of human subjects involved in scientific experimentation. Highlighted below the Common Rule’s provisions that are most relevant to the subject of this web site. You can access the entire Common Rule as adopted by the EPA by clicking here. Institutional Review Board (IRB) … Continue reading The Common Rule
Alarmist researchers would like to use neo-Lamarckism to scare people about politically incorrect exposures causing hereditable harms.
The authors of the Jan. 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed, ‘No Need to Panic about Global Warming,’ respond to their critics.
More evidence of why taxpayers have become the investor-of-last-resort for the embryonic stem cell pipedream.
“The evidence is growing that air pollution can affect the brain.”
Aromatherapy releases volatile organic compounds (VOCs) — but is that harmful?
Who knew that cell cultures could get Down syndrome?
Nobel prize winner Hermann Muller knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe level of radiation exposure, a new study asserts.
Let’s see if I can do this with some, ahem, decorum… do couples trying to get pregnant get to have more fun if the woman drinks lots of coffee, tea or cola?
Thanks go out today to Reason.com science correspondent Ron Bailey for inspiring today’s Science 101 lesson. (Disclaimer: Ron is an acquaintance, fellow libertarian and nice guy. That said, he doesn’t always get his science corresponding correct, at least when it comes to climate.) In Bailey’s recent column, “Will a Republican Congress Knock Science Back Into … Continue reading Science 101: No scales, balances in science