The EPA says that
particulate matter (PM)
in outdoor air kills people.
But there's no evidence
PM has ever killed anyone,
anywhere.
The EPA admitted
its PM epidemiology
was just statistics,
insufficient by itself
to conclude that
PM kills.
So the EPA did
human experiments,
exposing hundreds
of elderly and sick people,
to extremely high levels
of PM !
Not one adverse
effect was reported.
And despite
unrealistically
high exposures,
not a single
lab animal
has ever been
killed by PM.
PM levels in Chinese and
Indian cities are very high.
But there are no reports
of actual deaths from PM.
Beijing PM levels are
from 5 to 10 times higher
than Washington, DC.
Yet life expectancy
is higher in Beijing.
Underground
coal miners
are allowed to
inhale a very high
1,500 micrograms
per cubic meter PM,
on a full-time basis.
But there are
no reports
of coal miners
dying from
acute PM
exposures.
In fact, non-smoking
coal miners have
a greater life expectancy
than the average worker.
The average non-smoker
will inhale about 2 sugar
packets-worth of PM
over the course
of an 80-year life.
Smokers
can inhale
a 4-lb pound
sugar bag’s
worth of PM
in an 80-year life.
Yet the smokers
have about the same
life expectancy
as the nonsmokers,
according to
research published
in the New England
Journal of Medicine
and JAMA.
Smoking one
marijuana joint
delivers about
2-years’ worth
of outdoor air PM,
in just minutes.
But there are no reports
of deaths associated
with smoking marijuana.
The EPA staff ignores
all epidemiology studies
that report no association
between PM and death.
The studies are
peer-reviewed
and published.
Yet they are ignored,
as if they don’t exist.