Are you brazen enough to ask Congress for $50 million? For worthless research work?
On March 12, 1997, the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment conducted a hearing on EPA's proposed new air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter or "PM."
EPA has proposed a drastic reduction in the ozone and PM standards. But as I have reported on this page before, this proposal is fueled by incredibly bad science.
Dr. Morton Lippmann of the New York University Medical Center was one of those testifying in support of the EPA proposal.. Dr. Lippmann, an air pollution researcher whose junk science handiwork has been featured on this page before, called the EPA proposal a "modest step in the right direction."
Gee, I don't know Mort. I'd say forcing Americans to spend more than $10 billion per year for no demonstrable public health benefit is a HUGE step in the WRONG direction.
Dr. Lippmann also testified that researchers need at least $50 million to gain a stronger understanding of the health effects and other scientific issues related to ozone and PM.
But is more study really needed? After all, EPA has already compiled several hundred studies on ozone and PM. And they have failed to make their case. Moreover, until EPA said something, no one even noticed that the existing ozone and PM standards were a public health problem.
So Lippmann tells Congress that the government should spend $50 million on his own type of research. Well, if Congress is going to waste more taxpayer money on junk science, what about me and the Junk Science Home Page? I could use the money. I need to retire too. I just don't have the unmitigated gall to ask for it.
I think we have enough piggies eating out of the public trough!
