NYTimes Rehashes Love Canal, Times Beach, Libby Montana in attack on Trump EPA
A Department of Justice alumnus dredges up bad examples for a New York Times attack on EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Here’s the basic claim: Past the bickering over bureaucratic bookkeeping, here’s what you...
View ArticleNIEHS chief Birnbaum accused of violating lobbying law by House Science...
Linda Birnbaum is an Obama holdover who should be replaced by President Trump. Click to read the letter. More on Birnbaum: Chemical Scaremongering: It’s time to dismantle the alarmism industry Federal...
View ArticleFeds propose to give BPA clean bill of health
The draft CLARITY-BPA report should go a long way toward sweeping the “endocrine disrupter” scare into the ash bin of junk science history. BTW, JunkScience.com was there to point out the scare’s...
View ArticleClaim: 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. Read USA today coverage of Lanphear’s junk. This is more meaningless weak association epidemiology, the...
View ArticleChildren are NOT more sensitive /vulnerable to chemicals in the environment
Let’s review the nonsense in today’s New York Times op-ed by notorious junk scientist goofballs Phil Landrigan (Mt. Sinai) and Lynn Goldman (George Washington University). The NYTimes op-ed is here....
View ArticleBad Science May Banish Paper Receipts
My op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal about the debunking of the BPA scare. Having vanquished plastic straws, the California Legislature is now considering a bill to ban paper cash-register receipts....
View ArticleStan Young backs Milloy Wall Street Journal op-ed on endocrine disruptors
JunkScience.com friend, the great Stan Young scores a letter in the Wall Street Journal in support go Steve Milloy’s op-ed from earlier this week.
View ArticleExposed & Debunked: The Endocrine Disrupter Scare
JunkScience has been on top of the always-bogus endocrine disrupter scare since its beginning in March 1996. Here is our first post on it. In 2000, JunkScience followed up with “Our Swollen Future: The...
View ArticleDo PFAS cause early menopause?
A new study claims that women with high PFAS levels in their blood samples reached menopause two years earlier than those with lower levels. Credible? Here is the study. It’s yet more weak association...
View ArticleEPA passes on perchlorate regulation
Here is the news from E&E News. My 2002 FOXNews.com column on perchlorate is below. Here is the EPA decision. A rocket fuel component has been detected in drinking water sources in 18 states. It’s...
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