“This is total victory for the polluters right now," says epidemiologist Thomas Burke, a former advisor to the US Environmental Protection Agency.
He is responding to the dissolution of its scientific research arm, which will see hundreds of scientists fired and their research on environmental hazards ended.
https://www.science.org/content/article/blow-environment-epa-begins-dismantle-its-research-office
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@gclef the EPA said that it would be standing up a new scientific division, so all of this is a bit sensational.
We'll have to see how it works out, but there's a very good chance that this will actually improve the scientific mission of the EPA even as everybody is running around with their hair on fire yet again.
It's not an accurate story though.
