[9/8/16] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been arguing for years that small particulates such as diesel engine emissions and the smokestack vapor from coal-fired power plants are killing Americans.
The premise is behind Barack Obama’s stated intent to shut down coal operations and put coal miners out of work, a goal toward which he’s made great strides as president.
But now a team of scientists is calling for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to punish “scientific misconduct” by the EPA in its research of the issue.
Because it either was misconduct or the EPA is pushing a campaign based on a lie, they contend.
A policy brief submitted to the National Research Council by the Heartland Institute said the EPA has been “sponsoring experiments on human subjects involving exposures to small particle air pollution that EPA has declared publicly and repeatedly to be toxic, lethal, and carcinogenic.”
“This creates a dilemma for EPA: Either it broke the law by sponsoring human experiments forbidden under law and medical ethics, or its repeated claims to Congress and the American people about the health threat of exposure to low levels of particulate matter were a lie.”
Several scientists and physicians from the institute – a think tank headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois, dedicated to discovering, developing and promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems – recently addressed an NRC meeting on the issue.
They asked that appropriate measures be taken to punish the federal agency for its actions in exposing people to what it considers lethal conditions as part of its testing procedures.
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“Either EPA has been lying all along – and low levels of small particulars from coal-fired power plants and other sources do not constitute a public health hazard, and do not warrant the costly, draconian, extremely strict standards that EPA is imposing, or the agency and its hired researchers are guilty of violating legal and ethical standards by having human test subjects (including people with heart and respiratory problems, senior citizens, and even children) breathe what the agency claims are dangerous, carcinogenic, toxic, and lethal air contaminants,” said Paul Driessen, a senior policy adviser with the organization.
“EPA cannot have it both ways, and the National Academy of Sciences and its National Research Council must not allow EPA to do so. Moreoever, either way, EPA officials have clearly violated their oaths of office, by misleading the public and their test subjects.
“There have to be repercussions for this,” he said.
Dr. John Dale Dunn, M.D., the author of the policy brief, told WND that the EPA apparently had tried to have the private, nonprofit National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, through its National Research Council, somehow legitimize its studies and use of test subjects.
He said the National Academies held a series of meetings on the issue and admitted that that “EPA has performed controlled human-exposure studies to help understand exposure to and potential health effects of common air pollutants, such as particulate matter.”
The meetings were to “assess the potential health risks to test subjects who participated in recent studies of air pollutants at EPA’s clinical research facility and comment on the degree of actual risk imposed by the exposures in those studies…CONTINUE READING