In my email today:
From: The Honorable Dana Rohrabacher
Date: 4/27/2012
EPA Compromises the Integrity of Science
Dear Colleague:
“Which do you find more shocking: that the Environmental Protection Agency conducts experiments on humans that its own risk assessment would deem potentially lethal, or that it hides the results of those experiments from Congress and the public because they debunk those very same assessments?”
This critical question forms the basis for the attached Washington Times article: “Did Obama’s EPA relaunch Tuskegee experiments?” By Steve Milloy.
Moreover, this is one more piece of evidence that EPA uses science to play games, manipulate data, and generate faulty outcomes to justify their regulations. Here is a compelling example that highlights faulty science: “EPA researchers who conducted the experiments published the case study of the 58-year woman in the government journal Environmental Health Perspectives in which they casually disregard the woman’s preexisting conditions and blame her atrial fibrillation on PM2.2. They also failed to disclose the existence- let alone the results – of the other 40 experiments.”
If you are interested in understanding how the EPA continues to compromise the integrity of science, please read the full article here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/24/did-obamas-epa-relaunch-tuskegee-experiments/.
In Freedom,
/s/
Dana Rohrabacher
Member of Congress
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I suppose next, the EPA will try to shut down the Volcanoes National Park because it is “too dangerous”.
Anything for the cause. The fate of one for the good of the masses. That fits the socialist theme. The ends justify the means. If you have to lie, do so. We are above them and they cannot reach us.
If anyone is to conduct experiments of any kind on human beings, they must adhere to the Nuremberg Code. Fair point that the EPA is doing things to people and they do not know the outcomes and the people affected are not aware that they are lab rats.
That is immoral.
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/nuremberg.html
1) The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonable to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.
2)….
These principles were the result of the Nuremberg Trials following WWII.
How soon we forget.
Enviro Mengeles!
I was caused to pause for thought when I visited Volcanoes National Park in 2009. I had done work on numerous emissions reductions projects to take SO2 out of flue gas and also to remove sulfur from gasoline and diesel. Often, these projects involved capturing at most 10s of tonnes per day of sulfur. Yet when I was in Hawaii, they were no allowing people to hike up to the caldera because the volcano had become more active and SO2 emissions were up to 1700 t/d. Egads – that means that volcano is emitting more sulfur than all the refineries, cars and trucks in America.
“they also failed to disclose the existence – let alone the results – of the other 40 experiments.”
When they wrote their protocol they would have had to state that they were going to incorporate all their findings. If they didn’t then they are in breach of their protocol, have not published all their data, and so have obtained their funding fraudulently.
No grant body would sign off on withholding data, this is exactly the sort of thing that give Big-Pharma a bad reputation.
Shame that with the complete courrution of the West the best you can hope for is a slap on the wrist, scape goat or other such minimal measure so the corruption can continue.
Move along, nothing to see here, pay your taxes or you will banged up once the debt collectors have stirped you clean.
Sorry Ms. Jackson, Canadian researchers are already onto the cure for cancer.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150635846921971
Most of the particulates come from non-human sources. The particulate rules are to allow the control of all sorts of human activities, including farming and ploughing, as there is no ‘cure’ for the ‘problem’.
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/take-that-nature-regulating-particulates/
Has a graph in it of global particulates. You will notice they are mostly in desert areas:
http://chiefio.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/particulates-483897main_global-pm2-5-map.jpg
by my read on that graph, per the EPA assertion, folks across all of North Africa, Arabia, Israel, Pakistan, north India and huge chunks of China ought to be all dead now… They didn’t need to do this “experiment”, they just needed to look at the US Government maps. But that would have told them they were wrong. But if you get a bunch of folks, some with preexisting conditions, and stress them, maybe you can find a nice poster child… even if a dying one.
Some serious budget cuts for the EPA should be mandated.
This deserves Drudge headlines with the flashing police car light! It’s something you would have expected to see only in the USSR under Stalin. Congress should cut off all of their funding and PURGE THE EPA NOW!
I don’t see the problem, to make an omlet, yout have to break a few eggs. To achieve utopia, you have to break a few hundred million…
/sarc
Sigh, No, I don’t know what a yout is either. 🙁 I meant to type “you”. The bigger question is, why is my computer no longer flagging my typo’s?
[It may be a browser issue. Check your settings. ~dbs.]
So: the 41 experimental subjects: should they sue the EPA for knowingly, according to Jackson’s statements, put them at imminent risk of death? Does the exposure have lasting effects, (probably, according to Jackson), so should any future health issues be at the cost of the EPA?
If it weren’t for the internet, we would never know about these things.
FOIA: the names of the subjects so that they can be notified.
Oh, Mann, what a web.
Something missing here. Were these experimental subjects volunteers? Signed waivers, etc. ? Where’s the paperwork? There’s no indication in the article as to the protocol, or volunteer status of the subjects.
If they (the subjects) were not fully aware volunteers, then those with any connection whatsoever to the experiments should be hauled into court and severely punished.
Barack Obama said to be considering Genghis Khan for his replacement.
/snark
Eugenics loving… scary but not at all surprising. Sadly it seems most either don’t understand just how bad things have gotten or simply understand all to well and are desensitized to it.
Wonderful to see displayed above the Milloy piece a Penn State banner ad flashing that I can earn my degree in “Energy and Sustainability Policy” without leaving home!
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/degrees-and-certificates/energy-and-sustainability-policy-bachelors/overview?cm_mmc=ENERGY+AND+SUSTAINABILITY+POLICY+11-12-_-Google+Display+Network-_-Online%3ABanner%3ARectangleLeaderboard-_-728×90+Green+{GOO38203}&gclid=CNrMjtud3a8CFQ1vhwoddFLeDA
It really would be a shame to miss the hands on experience of Armendariz crucifixion labs though.
2.5 microns is pretty small. That’s smaller than pollens, but viruses are smaller still. I’m afraid I just ain’t buyin’ the narrative. I would imagine that most PM2.5 particulates are natural in origin and there’s damn little we can do to severely limit concentrations to less than 35 mcg per m^3. It seems the EPA is casting about for yet another excuse to shut down coal.
wrong thread, sorry, that post was meant for the http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/30/breaking-epas-crucifier-resigns/ thread.
Has EPA crucified its crucifier? Whatever happend to drawing and quartering? Is this EPA’s new commitment to separation of church and state? What will happen to EPA’s environmental religious dogma?
Now a member of Congress knows about EPA having become Soviet like administrative body I am completely satisfied, No?
But how about the judicial system?
If you ask me EPA is committing crimes against the American people.
I really wonder what’s the value of an American passport today.
You folks are starting to seriously worry us, your Northern neighbours…you know, the ones with all the oil your Prez doesn’t think you need, especially not at the favourable rates being offered. But that’s petty stuff compared to all the other horrors in the works. As one of our pundits recently said, if the current adminstration of activist lunatics, backed by the pitchfork crowds in the streets and parks aren’t turfed out of power come November, we…not only you and us up here in Canada, but the entire free world… are all finished. Not figuratively, but literally, as a civilization. No system can take another four years of such damage; it’s safer to be in a full-fledged war against superior enemies at this rate. It’s your business, of course, but we’ll all reap the results and we have right to worry and whine….such as when your bureaucratic muppets with microbrains and too much authority start violating the Nuremberg Code. Good Lord, what’s coming up next?
This is just silly nonsense until primary documents are produced to verify the allegations.
Where is the substance to this accusation? Without references, it’s just the ramblings of yet another conspiracy theorist. Not saying it’s not, but no references suggests there has been no verification of this story before it was posted.
When I was 6 (1952) and living in East London I can remember walking a mile to school in smog so thick and yellow you couldn’t see more than a few feet. You could taste the smog in your mouth and it made your throat sore. This used to happen each winter but the smogs were not quite so bad as 1952. Many people with chest problems died in the smogs.
Now 60 years later I am still here as are most of my classmates and I can still swim 50 metres under water without much problem.