Claim: Lead causes 250,000 heart disease deaths per year

This is study is evidence of nothing. Bruce Lanphear is a long-time lead scare profiteer.

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The Extent and Consequences of P-Hacking in Science

P-hacking is where researchers collect or select data and statistical analysis until nonsignifiant results become significant.

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Trump’s Tariffs: A Tool for Free Trade

No, it’s not NOT Smoot-Hawley all over again.

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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?

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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.

Foster City and San Francisco International Airport both have high economic value combined with heightened risk from flooding by 2100. Areas in dark blue indicate where the local land is sinking (LLS), yellow shows what is at risk from sea-level rise (SLR), and areas in red show the impact of both processes combined.

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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.

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Claim: Models show how to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C

Models like these?

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