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    Default The Republican War on Science Continues: Open thread

    More hysterical bullshit from Joan of Snark, it never ends!!

    Latest EPA science transparency proposal leaked to NYTimes; Key air quality junk science to be banned unless data is made public. Here it is. Please review and send me your thoughts. Supposedly this is what will be sent to the White House for review and approval.


    This is my favorite part so far: If true, this would mean the the Harvard Six City and Pope ACS studies are history and won’t be used by EPA again. Fantastic!

    Read the new proposal. https://junkscience.com/wp-content/u...-new-draft.pdf

    https://junkscience.com/2019/11/late...s-made-public/

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    "WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who say the new rule would undermine the scientific underpinnings of government policymaking.

    A new draft of the Environmental Protection Agency proposal, titled Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, would require that scientists disclose all of their raw data, including confidential medical records, before the agency could consider an academic study’s conclusions. E.P.A. officials called the plan a step toward transparency and said the disclosure of raw data would allow conclusions to be verified independently."
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    "Public health experts warned that studies that have been used for decades — to show, for example, that mercury from power plants impairs brain development, or that lead in paint dust is tied to behavioral disorders in children — might be inadmissible when existing regulations come up for renewal.

    For instance, a groundbreaking 1993 Harvard University project that definitively linked polluted air to premature deaths, currently the foundation of the nation’s air-quality laws, could become inadmissible. When gathering data for their research, known as the Six Cities study, scientists signed confidentiality agreements to track the private medical and occupational histories of more than 22,000 people in six cities. They combined that personal data with home air-quality data to study the link between chronic exposure to air pollution and mortality.

    But the fossil fuel industry and some Republican lawmakers have long criticized the analysis and a similar study by the American Cancer Society, saying the underlying data sets of both were never made public, preventing independent analysis of the conclusions."

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/c...nce-trump.html
    Science isn't a 'study' or a 'research'. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.

    These quacks don't want to disclose their data because they don't have any!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I hope that our environmental groups will be able to battle this in court. Clearly requiring the raw data, which will include that confidential personal health info, is a violation of HIPAA. In addition, it will have a huge dampening effect on future research studies. Who would consent to participate if they knew their PHI will end up in bureaucratic paws?
    What data?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Let's hope most of the damage can be mitigated by keeping his insane orders tied up in the courts till sanity can resume.
    What damage?

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