Will OMB Director Mulvaney Allow the Swamp to Destroy the Glider Truck Industry via an Obama EPA Rule?

Wait until President Trump finds out about this, Mick.

Flanking President Trump during a 2016 visit to a Fitzgerald Glider Kits facility are Tommy Fitzgerald, Sr. and Tommy Fitzgerald, Jr.

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EPA Extends Comment Period, Announces Public Hearing on Proposed Rule to Strengthen Science Transparency in EPA Regulations

There will be a public hearing in Washington DC on July 17. Comments due by August 17.

New Study: Still no association between PM2.5, ozone and premature death

This is a new PM2/5/ozone analysis from Stan Young et al. It uses a different methodology from last year’s California study on the same California data. Same answer, though. And the data is available from the study authors — something the EPA-funded air pollution mafia refuses to share.

Unlike anyone at Harvard, statistician Dr. Stan Young will make his data available so you don’t have to just trust him.

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NO… air ‘pollution’ NOT associated with hospitalization of elderly

More junk from Francesca Dominici and the Harvard air scare mafia.

You’ll get NO VERITAS from the air quality work of Harvard’s Francesca Dominici.

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Fake ‘science historian’ Naomi Oreskes attacks EPA science transparency proposal

Check out my line-by-line comments on her embarrassing essay in this week’s Nature.

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Air Pollution Mafia Attempting to Sabotage EPA Science Transparency Rulemaking

A memo prepared by the University of Washington’s Alison Cullen for the upcoming EPA Science Advisory Board meeting exposes the plot.

UWashington’s Alison Cullen is trying to thwart the Trump EPA’s effort to clean up EPA science.

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Statistical shenanigan behind air pollution studies revealed

Brilliant investigative work from Dr. Stan Young and colleagues.

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25 years ago in the New York Times, Julian Simon/Aaron Wildavsky debunk endangered species myths

MAGA Miracle: Op-ed by conservative economist in WaPo supporting EPA transparency rulemaking is EPA media release

The combination of the Washington Post printing an op-ed by a conservative economist supporting the Scott Pruitt-led EPA’s science transparency initiative, which then becomes an EPA media release… well, that just doesn’t happen every day!

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Thirdhand smoke… first-rate idiocy

Thirdhand smoke is dangerous… in your Uber car or in a classroom where someone smoked 30 years ago?

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75 years ago… New York Times debunks (vs. foments) a health scare

From the May 9, 1943 edition, the New York Times defuses a new claim that declining soil fertility is causing all sorts of human health problems by pointing out that chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease are primarily diseases associated with aging — which is what wealthy and healthy populations in developed countries tend to do.



Stanford science reformer Ioannidis exposes himself as incompetent or insincere — take your pick

I’ve always suspected that Stanford University professor John Ioannidis was only posing as a science reformer. His commentary in PLoS against the EPA science transparency rulemaking validates that.

John Ioannidis

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