Calabrese: Muller’s Nobel Prize data — Getting the dose wrong and its significance

“This paper reveals that in Muller’s (1927) Nobel Prize research he used a treatment exposure (total dose) that was 95 million-fold greater than the average background exposure, a value far greater than the 200,000 fold reported by Muller and Mott-Smith (1930).”

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Calabrese: Why EPA adopted the LNT for cancer risk assessment

“… overpowering influence of low dose biostatistical modeling perspectives that swayed the quantitatively overwhelmed chemical toxicologists. This resulted in the LNT policy going forward, becoming broadly institutionalized across many governmental agencies and in multiple countries. The rest is history.”

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NO… ‘rising sea levels’ won’t cost Seattle $23 billion

It’s always like shootin’ fish in a barrel.

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WaPo slams President Trump for correcting its own fake news

President Trump is merely trying to correct the fake news media’s own propaganda.

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US Air Quality Isn’t Slipping: Taking a Closer Look at the Data

JunkScience.com friend and air quality expert Rich Trzupek sets the record straight concerning the recent erroneous Associated Press report that US air quality has deteriorated under the Trump administration. BTW, I had requested a couple weeks ago a copy of the research report the AP claimed to have done, but AP reporter Seth Borenstein has so far failed to produce it.

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No, your smartphone isn’t going to boil your skin off or give you cancer in the 5G age

My column in today’s Financial Post.

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Has Himalayan glacier melting doubled?

“A newly comprehensive study shows that melting of Himalayan glaciers caused by rising temperatures has accelerated dramatically since the start of the 21st century,” claims a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Willis Eschenbach shares his thoughts.

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JunkScience radiation work spotlighted in New York Times best-seller on Chernobyl disaster

Reading “Midnight in Chernobyl,” I came across this…

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NO… PM2.5 is not reducing life expectancy in India

People will do anything but think.

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Climate bedwetters predict ‘megadrought’; Get record rainfall instead

It’s a good thing climate bedwetters don’t get paid on the basis of being correct.

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Pedal to the Metal: Why California can’t ban gasoline-powered cars

Unhappy with the imminent rollback of the Obama fuel economy standards and the so-called “California waver” by the Trump administration, California environment chief Mary Nichols is threatening to ban gasoline-powered cars. Is this possible?

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Busted: Britain NOT going coal-free

As with everything “green,” the claim that Britain went coal-free from May 17-31 is false. As it turns out, Britain imported coal-fried power from the Netherlands where the CO2 tax is about half.

Source: Power Engineering International Web | PDF