{"id":3543,"date":"2012-04-16T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2012-04-16T21:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T21:03:55","slug":"toxics-janet-fultons-junk-science-about-methyl-iodide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/toxics-janet-fultons-junk-science-about-methyl-iodide\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxics: Janet Fulton’s Junk Science about Methyl Iodide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nerve Gas Methyl Iodide Sales Halted in US - for Now<\/p><\/div>A former UC (agricultural) Field Station manager wrote a commentary in the Herald about Methyl Iodide that contradicts all environmental science about the nerve gas. (Janet Fulton: Methyl iodide a casualty of junk science<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sorry Ms. Fulton — <\/p>\n

1. Methyl iodide is recognized by all government agencies as a highly toxic nerve gas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Methyl iodide is listed as a Known Carcinogen under California Prop 65<\/a>. It is extremely difficult to get a chemical on this list.<\/p>\n

3. U.S. EPA lists it as a Hazardous Air Pollutant.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What part of that do you think is “junk science” Ms. Fulton?<\/p>\n

She believes that any lawsuits claiming harm from a highly toxic nerve gas could only result in “imagined damages.” — Imagined damage. <\/p>\n

Oooo K . . .<\/p>\n

That must be why nerve gases (actually all poison gases) were banned from warfare<\/a> – all those policy makers from the world’s most powerful countries only imagined there would be damage from nerve gases – not any actual physical harm . . . (other than some concern about the tens of thousands killed by Mustard Gas in WW1 and 3 million to 4 million killed with poison gas in Nazi WW2 prison camps)<\/p>\n

Adding to her anti-science rant she weirdly claims that Methyl bromide somehow serves as “a nourishing fertilizer.”<\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

A gaseous pesticide also acting as a fertilizer?<\/p>\n

To put it diplomatically “that’s a new claim.” which exactly like the rest of her ramblings is wholly without scientific basis. <\/p>\n

However, I’ll give her the benefit of doubt – Just send me a paper from a single experiment that Methyl bromide acts as a fertilizer – and I’ll revisit that claim.<\/p>\n

Ms. Fulton’s rant is emblematic of the anti-environment, anti-science movement that are thinly disguised Green-wash shills for corporate avarice.<\/p>\n

She blames her opponents for using junk science when they have the science right. Then she uses her own brand of argument that can accurately be called “junk science.”<\/p>\n

Her hypocrisy is complete.
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