I went back and forth yesterday with NYTimes op-ed page staff over Swamp King Trent Lott’s failure to disclose his conflicts of interest in his NYTimes op-ed advocating for a carbon tax. What an experience.
Swamp king Trent Lott forgets to disclose clients in NYTimes op-ed advocating a CO2 tax
Will the New York Times fix Lott’s failure?
FLASHBACK: Fear of Margarine — The Trans Fat Myth
The FDA finally banned trans fats in processed foods yesterday. Here is my original 1999 takedown of the junk science behind the trans fat scare.
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Congress investigating whether China is paying NRDC to harm America
Backfire: Harvard math shows that trucks kill 35% more Americans than actually die
The corruption of Harvard’s Francesca Dominici and Journal of the American Medical Association editor Howard Bauchner are gifts that keep giving.
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Anti-glider truck fraud expands: JAMA allows Harvard’s Dominici to publish bogus activist death estimate as empirical fact
The criminal conspiracy to destroy the glider truck industry is expanding. I guess the Journal of the American Medical Association wants to be part of it.
CLAIM: Antarctica ramps up sea level rise. REALITY: Sea level rise NOT accelerating.
The claim is not supported by tide gauges.
Climatewire profiles Steve Milloy
Afraid-to-be-identified green on Milloy: “Game respect game.”
Hypocrisy of the Day: Former Sierra Club Chief Carl Pope
What green is not totally full of it?
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NYTimes attacks Trump on science — and it turns out to be quite revealing
Keying off the upcoming summit with North Korea, the New York Times’ Coral Davenport attempts an extensive hatchet job on science under Trump. Nowhere in the article does she disclose that she is married to (as of last year, anyway) “an intelligence analyst at the Energy Department in Washington, where he focuses on foreign nuclear weapons programs.” What a co-inky-dink. I love New York Times wedding announcements. It’s how I got the Washington Post‘s Juliet Eilperin reassigned from her environmental beat a few years ago. Here is my line-by-line commentary.
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EXPOSED: E-mails reveal Volvo Trucks, (Obama leftover) EPA staff rig agency test in effort to destroy glider truck industry
Emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act confirm that China-owned Volvo Trucks conspired with Obama-holdover EPA career staff to destroy the glider truck industry. This should also be embarrassing news for reporters like the New York Times’ Eric Lipton and the Los Angeles Times’ Evan Halper who wittingly or unwittingly have been propagandizing for Volvo against gliders under the guise of journalism.
More Winning: EPA Administrator Pruitt Proposes Cost-Benefit Analysis Reform
Thank you, Administrator Scott Pruitt — greatest EPA chief ever.
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