Fred Singer: Secondhand Smoke, Lung Cancer, and the Global Warming Debate

But just when we thought that nothing could top the EPA claims, along comes this bombshell from Obama's surgeon general Regina Benjamin: "Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can cause cardiovascular disease and could trigger acute cardiac events like heart attack." Not just long-term exposure to SHS -- just a whiff can kill you, asserts the surgeon general's media release of Dec. 9, 2010. Of course, there is no evidence cited to back up this wild claim -- just the usual and undisputed evidence about the health consequences to actual (primary) smokers.

So what does it all mean? The issue is not whether SHS is healthy; it obviously is not. One issue is the use of the "tobacco weapon" to attack the credibility of climate scientists -- in place of using scientific arguments. It bespeaks of the desperation of those who don't have any valid scientific arguments and wish to avoid public debate. (Imagine, if you will, Oreskes attacking the validity of the notorious "hockey stick" temperature curve by linking its author, Michael Mann, to tobacco company Philip Morris, instead of describing his faulty use of statistics.)

The other issue is the conduct of science and the integrity of the science process: the intrusion of government political agenda -- worthy or not -- on the way science is done and reported to the public. The corruption of science in a worthy cause is still corruption, and it has led to its further corruption in an unworthy cause -- the ideologically driven claim of anthropogenic global warming.

Climate Common Sense: Secondhand Smoke, Lung Cancer, and the Global Warming Debate

On the blog American Thinker Fred Singer, one of America's most respected scientists defends himself against charges arising from his evidence that the EPA's findings were based on "junk science" which he still maintains is true. The EPA's cavalier use of "junk science" does not seem to have changed with it's current stand on Global Warming.
Fred is a non-smoker and dislikes second-hand smoke so efforts to paint him as part of the tobacco lobby are off the mark. He was asked to analyse the EPA studies and they did not stand up to any kind of rigorous scrutiny.

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