HUGE STUDY: Air pollution-asthma epidemic link in tatters
Is Tylenol — not improving air quality — to blame for the alleged asthma epidemic of the past 30 years?
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Capps: Climate change causes asthma, allergies
Reps. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D – Mass.) re-introduce part of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill.
Enviros produce an asthmatic — but no link to air pollution
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Name that asthmatic
HHS’ Kathleen Sebellius and EPA’s Lisa Jackson team up today to propagandize about the alleged health benefits of EPA overregulation.
Ozone not correlated with asthma hospitalizations, reports new JunkScience.com study
In the spirit of our 1999 debunking of the dioxin scare via original research, we now turn our sights on EPA’s air pollution hysteria.
Low-fat yogurt during pregnancy causes asthma, hay fever in kids?
We’d like to explain why this study is nonsense, but of course that’s difficult to do with science-by-press-release-and abstract.
Global warming causes asthma?
A study claiming to link a climate-induced increase in ground-level ozone with asthma is breathtakingly debunked.
EMF scare returns: Maternal appliance use and asthma in offspring?
We were right that air pollution wasn’t causing asthma in kids; it’s actually hair dryers, vacuums and microwaves — or at least that’s what’s being claimed in a new study.
EDF attacks utility with fake asthma attack?
The Environmental Defense Fund, long-time EPA running dog and the group whose handiwork on DDT led to millions of dead Africans, is attacking utility giant AEP with a TV ad featuring what appears to be a faked asthma attack.
Anti-pesticide cranks responsible for elevated childhood asthma?
Crawling culprit seen in urban kids’ asthma Researchers have identified cockroaches as a potential explanation for dramatic variations between neighborhoods in asthma rates among New York City children.
Can Congressional Republicans be trained? JunkScience.com releases childhood asthma-air pollution fact sheet ahead of Senate hearing
Senate Democrats will hold a show trial of sorts tomorrow about air quality and asthma in children. Because Congressional Republicans generally stink at such hearings, JunkScience is releasing this fact sheet to help them out.
CDC in a quandry: Asthma up, but air pollution, smoking down
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today that the prevalence and number of persons with asthma have increased since 2001 despite improvements in outdoor air quality, and decreases in cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke exposure. It is of course entirely possible, if not likely, that asthma is not really up so much as … Continue reading CDC in a quandry: Asthma up, but air pollution, smoking down