The National Academy of Sciences will be examining a program initiated by the EPA that intentionally put the lives of Americans in danger to further their ideology. Not since Josef Mengele have such sadistic experiments been made. Steve Malloy, a blogger and senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute has been pushing the case for four years now.
Malloy makes the case:
In short, the EPA intentionally exposed hundreds of humans in a gas chamber to exceedingly high levels of air pollutants like diesel exhaust, soot and smog in hopes of causing serious health effects that the agency could point to as justification for its costly and stringent outdoor air quality standards. Study subjects included the elderly (up to age 80), asthmatics, diabetics and people with heart disease — the very people EPA claims are most susceptible to air pollution. EPA failed to tell these study subjects it believed the experiments could cause death.
The experiments were fundamentally unethical and illegal as federal law prohibits treating humans as guinea pigs, especially for the mere purpose of advancing an agency’s regulatory agenda. Extra illegality was added by the agency’s failure to inform its human guinea pigs that it believed the experiments could kill them.
The EPA exposed these subjects to many more times pollutants than one would encounter in the real world and to top it off, they never told the subjects that the experiments were possibly fatal or could cause serious health problems. The reason it hasn’t been fully exposed before is that the EPA got the NAS (national Academy of Sciences) to write a report that the experiments were benign and did not endanger lives. That’s when Malloy realized that the EPA withheld the truth about the experiments and he set about to make sure they were properly informed.
The heinous experiment was an effort to justifying the elimination of air particle pollution. The regulations that the EPA wanted ti impose would cost the economy 3.5 trillion between now and 2040, not to mention 2.9 million jobs a year. There is no credible science to suggest this effort would even save one life. So, how did they expect to get the results they wanted? They bribed the scientists with huge sums of money.
Here, for example, is what an EPA administrator told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in September 2011:
Particulate matter causes premature death. It doesn’t make you sick. It’s directly causal to dying sooner than you should.
The administrator went on to (an inevitably all-ears) Rep. Markey:
If we could reduce particulate matter to levels that are healthy we would have an identical impact to finding a cure for cancer.
This is almost certainly a flat out lie. Indeed the whole idea that “fine particle” pollution represents a problem worth addressing is most likely the result of corrupt junk-science produced for no better reason than that the activists at the EPA paid tame scientists huge sums of money to produce the doomsday message they wanted to hear.
Of the 26 members appointed to the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Particulate Matter Review Panel, 24 received direct or indirect grants from the EPA totaling more than $190 million claims the institute’s lawyer.
To repeat, there is no credible evidence to suggest that ‘fine particle’ pollution is a health risk worth spending a cent on, let alone one which justifies crippling U.S. industry and costing the economy $3.5 trillion by 2040.
Welcome to Obamaland, where ideology is more valuable than human lives. Mengele would be so proud.