Tag: mercury
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CDC’s Autism Reversal: Inside the Collapse of a 25‑Year Public Health Narrative
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 20, 2025) — On November 19, 2025, quietly and without ceremony, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website and rewrote one of the most politically charged sentences in modern American medicine. A sentence that had been treated as gospel—“Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism”—was suddenly recast…
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With Kennedy on Board, This is What a Trump Win Will Mean for Democrats
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Nov. 1, 2024) — In 2016, I began to receive invitations from concerned parents and activist groups to come, at my own expense, and share with legislative committees and other bodies what I knew from reading and evaluating vaccine safety science and what I knew about informed consent.…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tests the Appetite of Democrats for Science, Logic & Reason
by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023 (Jun. 21, 2023) — In the marketplace of credibility, fewer people have more going for him than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Those of us who have worked with Bobby and know precisely the full extent of the length the man goes to vet information before he takes…
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Faulty FDEP Science Drives Unnecessary Florida Mercury Scare
PROPOSED RULES WOULD RAISE ELECTRICITY COSTS, BRING NO ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT, HARM HUMAN HEALTH by Dr. Willie Soon, ©2012 (Jun. 14, 2012) — Regulatory actions being debated in Florida should raise bright red flags for Sunshine State residents, other US states, and even other countries. On May 24, the Environmental Assessment and Restoration Division of the Florida…
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Imaginary Benefits, Extensive Harm
EPA MERCURY RULES FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATING UNITS ARE BASED ON FALSE SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS by Craig Rucker, ©2011 (Dec. 29, 2011) — The Environmental Protection Agency clams its “final proposed” Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rules will eliminate toxic pollution from electrical generating units, bring up to $140 billion in annual health benefits, and prevent…
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Our Children Are At Risk
EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK NEEDS TO GET IT RIGHT BEFORE IT PREACHES TO OTHERS by Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., ©2011 (Oct. 8, 2011) — Once again, partisan political activists are defending job-killing regulations that will harm the most vulnerable people, while providing no demonstrable environmental benefits. Unfortunately, these activists are also working hard to seduce…