Posted on 07/06/2017 5:48:18 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
Milloy request NEJM retraction: If PM2.5 kills, then it kills everywhere, in the same way, and all the time, and every study result should either be consistent with that hypothesis or be explained away as flawed or faulty...
...the NEJM Study as it, for example, lacks information on the cause of death for any individual in the Medicare population, relies entirely on guesstimated exposure data, and fails to consider confounding factors such as smoking, socioeconomic status and any of the other myriad potential competing risk factors for death.
(Excerpt) Read more at junkscience.com ...
Done. Thanks for the tip and the link! I gave up on the NEJM when they joined the anti firearm crusade.
Steven Milloy does a yeoman’s job
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Thanks. I do wonder what the future holds. When I got my education and training in the 70s and 80s you would get seriously beat up (intellectually) for the sloppy thought that passes for “science” in these times. One just has to wonder how a culture can survive when the threshold for having the required amount of brain power to make it work just isn’t there. Well, the obvious answer is “It won’t”, I suppose.
Cletus: BSChem, 1981
Forgot to add:
30+ years in Env.Compliance for the US energy industry.
BA Psych Boulder, 78. MD St Louis U 83. Dr WIlman would gut you on rounds and lived to do it. He had been a fighter pilot in the Pacific. Absolutely ruthless.
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