Steve Milloy of junkscience.com has posted a paper he claims debunks an EPA claim:
http://junkscience.com/2013/12/26/e...-ever-assembled-on-particulate-matter-deaths/ (http://archive.is/PNB4u)
Now I suspect this is bunk. Firstly because Milloy starts out with the statement:
This is not your typical debunk, as the claims are quite complex, and hidden in very large and difficult to read documents and datasets. So it's quite easy to make a claim and have it be obscured by the fog of science.
Milloy has a long history of denying various things, such as the health effects of secondhand smoke, global warming, evolution, and the safety of DDT. While this does not make everything he says false, it does tend to point to the need for additional scrutiny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy
(Milloy and EPA PDFs attached)
http://junkscience.com/2013/12/26/e...-ever-assembled-on-particulate-matter-deaths/ (http://archive.is/PNB4u)
Now I suspect this is bunk. Firstly because Milloy starts out with the statement:
Yet he does not quote the exact claim, or the quantities (if any) involved in that claim. Nor does he note that this is NOT the the entire basis of the EPA's justification for regulating PM2.5. And he then goes on to title his post:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulates ambient airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on the basis that it is causally associated with short-term mortality — i.e., daily increases in PM2.5 cause increases in daily deaths.
With the implication that there's no need for the EPA to regulate PM2.5.
EPA air pollution scare debunked
This is not your typical debunk, as the claims are quite complex, and hidden in very large and difficult to read documents and datasets. So it's quite easy to make a claim and have it be obscured by the fog of science.
Milloy has a long history of denying various things, such as the health effects of secondhand smoke, global warming, evolution, and the safety of DDT. While this does not make everything he says false, it does tend to point to the need for additional scrutiny.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy
(Milloy and EPA PDFs attached)
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