AmericanThinker: Last week, I discovered Frank Schnell when he wrote a comment on formaldehyde and said it was not a cancer-causing agent and that the EPA had lied about it. His comment was on an American Council on Science and Health posting by Josh Bloom, Ph.D. (organic chemistry), with a 20-year history of pharmaceutical research. Bloom busied himself in the post eviscerating a scare-monger on formaldehyde from the enviro-fanatic group National Resources Defense Council, and did a good job, but in the third or fourth comment, I saw a gem – a brief but insightful discussion by a man who described himself as a Ph.D. toxicologist retired from the Communicable Disease Center – Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) for 20 years.
Katy, bar the door.
In his comment on the formaldehyde issues, Schnell displayed his expertise and his knowledge of EPA misconduct as a view from the belly of the beast. He outlined the science misconduct directed by the EPA and its agency allies, supported by fanatic environmentalists inside and outside the government. MORE
Same with DDT. The left runs the country.
The article here: http://acsh.org/news/2016/01/22/dose-response-noaels-and-hormesis/
was fascinating. A lot of caffeine will kill people. A little keeps me from killing them.
Great news…now I can start dipping my joints in it again with no worries.
Thanks huuuugely, MJA. I’ve bookmarked all three archives and am looking forward to going through them all over the next several days.
Peripherally related aside: An early whistle-blower who got marginalized by TPTB (as TPTB tries, usually successfully, with all whistle-blowers) was Dixie Lee Ray. Fascinating lady. Very respectable education and scientific/engineering background. Chaired the Atomic Energy Commission (and a female! Egads!). 17th and first female governor of the state of Washington, and handled the Mt. St. Helens aftermath quite well. Read her stuff, especially two books she wrote with Louis R. Guzzo:
Environmental Overkill (1994) New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-06-097598-9.
Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things (1992) New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 0-06-097490-7.
Another one: PCBs (used for insulation, lub and coolant in transformers and capacitors). Totally demonized. Never hurt the guys who used to use this for clean-up. Scared the heck out of some people.
Tobacco usage is in the scare – politics category. The tactic helped increase anti-depressant usage and conditioned a lot of people to give up freedoms – of others.
@ Uncle Al
Hey thanks. I read her books. I forgot about her books. I hope I can find them to read again. Just hope they didn’t get trimmed out of my “library” during a semi-serious water then mold situation in my basement ten years ago.
p.s. I keep saying that I look 10 years younger than my age because of the formaldehyde in my tobacci (as Granny would call it). Preservative ?
Once the government got away with claiming tobacco caused cancer (it is a risk factor, not a cause) they knew they could get away with anything.
@ John S
I agree on both counts.
Ever seen pictures of lungs with tobacco smoke vs Pot smoke. But pots OK.