EPA Denies Conducting Unethical Human Experiments; Facts Show Otherwise?
Wayne Cascio, director of EPA’s Environmental Public Health Division, responds to Steve Milloy’s Washington Times commentary accusing EPA of conducting unethical human experiments or, in the alternative, exaggerating the dangers of airborne fine particulate matter.
Cascio’s letter is below. Milloy’s comments are in bolded brackets. We have been busy on this issue since the Washington Times commentary was published and will have much more to say soon.
Air-pollution studies important for health
May 1, 2012, The Washington Times
Steve Milloy’s recent Op-Ed (“Did Obama’s EPA relaunch Tuskegee experiments?” Commentary, April 25) makes allegations about critical scientific research into how air pollution might contribute to abnormal heart rhythms. [I accused EPA of either: (1) conducting unethical human experimentation or exaggerating the dangers of fine airborne particulate matter (PM2.5). It must be one or the other; it can't be neither, according to EPA's own documents.]
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http://www.westernjournalism.com/epa-denies-conducting-unethi...
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You can't have it both ways; if Ms Jackson and the EPA believe that exposure to 35 micrograms per cubic meter will kill a person "quickly" within days then exposing individuals to 10 or 20 times those levels certainly sounds like highly unsafe and unethical experimentation to me.