No, it’s not NOT Smoot-Hawley all over again.
Publication bias and the canonization of false facts
‘Science’ is facing a replication crisis.
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NO… blacks not a higher risk from PM2.5 than whites…. NO
PM2.5 doesn’t kill people — white, black or purple. But it does make researchers of all skin colors dishonest.
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Claim: Coral reef experiment shows acidification from carbon dioxide slows growth
Nah.
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Milloy quote on Pompeo is NYTimes headline
The quote in the NYTimes headline is mine. Who’d a thunk that would ever happen?
Steve Milloy quoted in Trump EPA Report of First Year Accomplishments
Also had a great meeting today with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt! Big things happening!
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Study: US cancer treatment guidelines ‘often based on weak evidence’
So far the war on cancer has largely been an expensive failure. Some success, but mostly not.
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Claim: Sinking ground in San Francisco Bay will worsen flooding from rising sea levels
Sinking, yes. Sea level rise, no.
Oops… Volvo lobbyist (literally) wrote the letter for congressman to press EPA against repeal of glider rule
West Virginia Congressman Evan Jenkins (R-Volvo) should run away from the ongoing swamp effort to kill the glider truck industry.
Claim: Models show how to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C
Russkies meddling in US energy and climate policy, says Congress
Paging Robert Mueller…
“It is clear that Russian agents are using social media to influence and impact U.S. energy markets. Regardless of one’s political or ideological views surrounding U.S. energy policy and climate change, the American people deserve to be free from foreign political interference.” Click here for the report.
Guidelines to the Epidemiology of Weak Associations
Here is a 1987 article from the great Ernst Wynder (1922-1999) author of the first large-scale study to link smoking with lung cancer. In the 1987 article, Wynder discusses the problems of drawing causal connections based on weak association epidemiology. Readers of this page know that weak association epidemiology has long been abused by government regulators, especially the EPA (Read “Scare Pollution” for a thorough treatment of this point). That’s why JunkScience.com has petitioned President Trump to issue standards for the use of epidemiology by regulatory agencies. This article is the introductory one to a 1985 workshop on weak associations published in Preventative Medicine in 1987.
