An apple a day kills 3.8 people from air pollution per year?
The latest (EPA-funded) PM2.5 horror story is that PM2.5 from farm emissions kills 17,000 people per year. Thanks to PM2.5 science fraud, you can now even figure out just how “deadly” the food you eat is.
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Here is the Washington Post report on the study (Web | PDF).
Here is the “study” and supplementary material.
So this is just the usual PM2.5 fraud where it is assumed that PM2.5 kills and that all that is left is to figure out are emissions and convert them into deaths.
JunkScience.com readers know that we have exhaustively shown that PM2.5 kills no one. The non-scientific nature of the PM2.5 claims was recently acknowledged by the EPA’s Clean Air Act Scientific Advisory Committee as follows:
https://junkscience.com/2021/05/an-apple-a-day-kills-3-8-people-from-air-pollution-per-year/