Obama OSHA Pick Supports Junk Science in Courts and Public Policy; Senate...
WASHINGTON, July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — President Obama’s nominee to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), David Michaels, should be grilled by the U.S. Senate about his...
View ArticleSupreme Court to allow junk science in courtrooms?
Will the Supreme Court undermine the ability of judges to keep junk science out of the courtroom? The Supreme Court has been asked to take up the case of United States Steel v. Milward v. Acuity...
View ArticleButterworth: Top Government Scientists Catch Media’s Favorite Anti BPA...
BPA nemesis Fred vom Saal mixed up with trial lawyers? Trevor Butterworth writes on Forbes.com, If industry funding provides grounds to claim bias, collaborating with trial lawyers and running a...
View ArticleWill climate models hold up in court?
Attorney Brooks Harlow and climate scientist Roy Spencer opine. Harlow and Spencer write in “An Inconvenient Burden Of Proof? CO2 Nuisance Plaintiffs Will Face Challenges In Meeting The Daubert...
View ArticleLawyers From Suits Against Big Tobacco Target Food Makers
These ratbags are putting their hands in your pockets. Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, took in hundreds of millions of dollars a decade ago after suing Big Tobacco and winning record settlements...
View ArticleFood allergy is a disability under the ADA?
“Colleges and universities are especially vulnerable because they know their students and often require them to eat on campus, Eve Hill of the Justice Department’s civil rights division says.” “People...
View ArticleCERCLA statutes of limitation and repose–SCOTUS opinion
Here’s an esoteric opinion about a very troublesome law. CERCLA is intended to address toxic waste dumps or sites and remedies. CERCLA is a swamp of regulatory and legal problems that have resulted in...
View ArticleFederal judge rules composition of FDA anti-tobacco committee ILLEGAL:...
One of the Big Pharma/trial lawyer shills is the infamous Jonathan Samet — junk science epidemiologist and chief railroad engineer of radon, secondhand smoke, particulate matter and ground-level ozone....
View ArticleYou Can Keep Your Doctor…If He Doesn’t Kill Himself
As the ACA (Obamacare) enters its comic relief phase, with the Jon Gruber videos; the “now you tell me” confessions of Democratic lawmakers who say that the bill should not have been passed; and the...
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