Researcher Claims To Have Evidence One Of EPA’s.... Rules Is Based On Fabricated Data(T)

dailycaller.com ^ | 8/8/2017 | Michael Bastasch

[rktman]

One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longest and most successful air pollution standards is based on a taxpayer-funded study plagued by “data fabrication and falsification,” according to a veteran toxicologist.

Toxicologist Albert Donnay says he’s found evidence a 1989 study commissioned by EPA on the health effects of carbon monoxide, which, if true, could call into question 25 years of regulations and billions of dollars on catalytic converters for automobiles.

“They claimed to find an effect when there wasn’t one,” Donnay told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “They even fabricated the methods they used to get their results.”

“They were spinning this to give EPA what they wanted and commissioned,” Donnay said. “They reported results that could not have come from human beings.”

[rktman]

And, they'll claim that despite the unproven/incorrect data (which will be a question in its own right) provided awesome results so it was worth it. In the end....no rule changes and nobody losing a job over it.

[rbg81]

Only one? [/s]

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Back in the pre-politically correct days we called that technique “Japanese Book keeping”.

You define the answer you want then work up the data to support it.

But we have become more enlightened and have progressed beyond the use of terms like that.

Now it’s just called a government study.

[rktman]

““Japanese Book keeping”.” Trigger trigger trigger! LOL!

[Openurmind]

Yep, and now we have millions of cars out there with bad convertors dumping sulphur into the atmosphere.

We can thank California’s perpetual wisdom for this one.

[SargeK]

Most government funded research studies are garbage. The desired result is always more regulation, more power and a bigger budget. If your company or institution is commissioned to perform a study, the result had better support those goals or you won’t be commissioned for any more research and your integrity and competence be attacked. You won’t be in business for long.

This is how we get the torrent of overwhelming and increasingly strident, yet patently rediculous alarmist global warming crap.

[100American]

I have my own version of the mantra

A Solution looking for a Problem

[kanawa]

From President Eisenhower’s farewell address.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields.
In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research.

Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should,
we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

h/t KarlInOhio

[GoldenPup]

Researcher Claims To Have Evidence One Of EPA’s.... Rules Is Based On Fabricated Data

One? Only one? Bullshit. I would believe most of them, if not ALL of them!!