{"id":92695,"date":"2017-11-19T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=92695"},"modified":"2017-11-19T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T16:18:16","slug":"nejm-editor-drazen-gets-468000-government-grant-while-attacking-trump-with-bogus-pm2-5-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2017\/11\/nejm-editor-drazen-gets-468000-government-grant-while-attacking-trump-with-bogus-pm2-5-study\/","title":{"rendered":"NEJM editor Drazen gets $468,000 government grant while attacking Trump with bogus PM2.5 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder how many researchers can get away with publicly attacking the President and get a federal grant at the same time?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92597\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Jeff-Drazen-728x942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"854\" class=\"size-large wp-image-92597\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEJM editor Jeffrey Drazen has decided to risk his and his journal&#8217;s reputations to defend air quality lies coming from the Harvard-based EPA air quality mafia. Game on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/projectreporter.nih.gov\/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9305140&#038;icde=37001164&#038;ddparam=&#038;ddvalue=&#038;ddsub=&#038;cr=1&#038;csb=default&#038;cs=ASC&#038;pball=\">grant<\/a> to Drazen. Note the dates. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-10.50.41-AM-728x593.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"538\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-92696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-10.50.41-AM-728x593.png 728w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-10.50.41-AM-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-10.50.41-AM-768x625.png 768w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-10.50.41-AM.png 995w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is Drazen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/air-pollution-editorial.pdf\">attack<\/a> (w\/excerpt) on Trump in the June 29, 2017 <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>, where Drazen is editor-in-chief:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Still-Kills-728x401.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-92546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Still-Kills-728x401.png 728w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Still-Kills-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Still-Kills-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Still-Kills.png 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-11.05.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-11.05.00-AM.png 622w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-11.05.00-AM-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are Drazen&#8217;s attack and grant related? I don&#8217;t know, but it sure is interesting. Keep in mind that the <a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/air-pollution.pdf\">PM2.5 study<\/a> in question was also partly funded by NIH.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-11.13.41-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-11.13.41-AM.png 695w, https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-19-at-11.13.41-AM-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1994, my research group, the Regulatory Impact Analysis project, was refused further Department of Energy funding by the Clinton administration for publishing a report concluding that federal environmental policy was determined more by politics than science. Has the federal government become that much more tolerant of critics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder how many researchers can get away with publicly attacking the President and get a federal grant at the same time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-quality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-o75","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92703,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92695\/revisions\/92703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}