[jazusamo]

The EPA is dangerously out of control.

[massgopguy]

“We did it for science.” - NAZI doctors at Nuremberg

[miss marmelstein]

Who were the subjects? Were they poor blacks and whites?

My country is turning into Nazi Germany.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Paging Dr. Mengele. Please pick up the white courtesy phone in the lobby.

[Sequoyah101]

Notice her admiring onlookers.

This is about power. This is about punishment.

[generally]

Shut the EPA down.

NOW.

[Lazamataz]

More and more like Nazi Germany every damned day.

[TChris]

Seems like an ideal time to whip this up and get the EPA repealed. It should be a state function anyway. (See US Constitution: 10th Amendment)

[lonevoice]

If I’m understanding correctly, this EPA “study” proved that if a person sucks diesel exhaust directly from a truck’s tailpipe and into his/her lungs for a sustained period of 2 hours, that person has an elevated risk of premature death.

Then they used the results of this insane test to enact EPA regulations, including their Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.

If the plaintiff’s lawsuit prevails, the EPA will, among other things, be forced to repeal any regulations based on these experiments.

Well done, Steven Milloy. You’ve certainly earned my respect and gratitude.

[exDemMom]

There is so much misinformation here that it is difficult to even know where to begin. And the subject has been covered already on FR.

The 58 year old woman who supposedly nearly died had a history of health problems, and in the experiment, she had a minor complication that resolved within two hours. The original medical publication can be read here. This was published because no adverse health effect from breathing particulate matter had ever been observed before.

Despite the statement in the article at the top of this thread that "EPA has already determined that PM2.5 is lethal and can cause death within hours of breathing it..." there is, actually, no firm evidence of that. That determination was made on the basis of statistical analyses, in which a correlation has been found between high particulate content in the air and (very slight) increase in the number of asthma/COPD deaths. Since correlation is not causation, there actually is no solid evidence linking particulates to death. (I am not giving an opinion one way or the other here.)

Although, overall, I like Steve Milloy's work, I suspect that he is grandstanding with this lawsuit. It is not about supposedly dangerous research (which was conducted after IRB review, and with full consent of informed participants) so much as it is about scoring against the EPA. I'm not a fan of politically motivated lawsuits, no matter which side of the political spectrum is filing the lawsuit.