What green is not totally full of it?
Continue reading Hypocrisy of the Day: Former Sierra Club Chief Carl Pope
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.
Continue reading NYTimes attacks Trump on science — and it turns out to be quite revealing
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.
Continue reading More Winning: EPA Administrator Pruitt Proposes Cost-Benefit Analysis Reform
Calabrese: Was Muller’s 1946 Nobel Prize research for radiation-induced gene mutations peer reviewed?
A new paper from the great Ed Calabrese. Hermann Muller’s scientific misconduct continues to plague us today via regulatory actions and rules based on the linear no-threshold model of carcinogenesis.
Study: Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought
More than 10F warmer.
Continue reading Study: Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought
Negative studies and PM2.5
Courtesy of Stan Young, below is a (growing) list of published papers that report no association between PM2.5 and mortality.
On the need to restrain scientists
In his 1905 veto of what would have been the first and eugenics-aimed compulsory sterilization law in the U.S., Pennsylvania Gov. Samuel Pennypacker stated:
Scientists, like all other men whose experiences have been limited to one pursuit, and whose minds have been developed in a particular direction, sometimes need to be restrained. Men of high scientific attainments are prone, in their love for technique, to lose sight of broad principles outside of their domain of thought.
Read Gov. Pennypacker’s entire statement… Continue reading On the need to restrain scientists
LATimes Evan Halper propagandizes for Big Trucking against the glider truck industry
Here is my line-by-line of Evan Halper’s error-filled report in the Los Angeles Times.
‘Resistance’ games EPA Science Advisory Board meeting
By design, the public comment period at today’s EPA Science Advisory Board meeting will feature only Trump EPA opponents.
Continue reading ‘Resistance’ games EPA Science Advisory Board meeting
Notice of Public Hearing for EPA Science Transparency Rule
If you’re going to be in Washington, DC on July 17, you can make oral comments on the EPA proposal. Click for the Federal Register notice.
Pope fails to find error in Enstrom’s 2017 reanalysis of Pope 1995 PM2.5 study
Arden Pope had 14 months to find an error in Jim Enstrom’s 2017 redo and takedown of Pope’s 1995 study. Despite Pope’s arm-waving no actual error was found.
Here is the paragraph of Enstrom’s response:
Read Enstrom’s entire response published in Dose-Response.
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