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From the article: Mountaintop removal is harmful to the environment and to health.
""Rates for any anomaly were approximately 235 per 100,000 live births in the mountaintop mining area versus 144 per 100,000 live births in the non-mining area," according to the study."
Bill Bissett, president of the Kentucky Coal Association, said Wednesday that he's still reading the new study and speaking to experts about it, so he's not yet prepared to address its conclusions. But Bissett said Hendryx's past studies and public statements critical of the coal industry — surface mining in particular — raise questions in his mind about the scientist's motives.
This research group has, in the past been known to publish biased studies...
And why would the author of this study not be eager to have his peers review his data?
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But he (Hendryx) said that is based on the accumulated scientific evidence. It is not necessary to spend more years studying the issue before the government acts, he said.
Another "expert scientist" who could not possibly be reading anything into the study or conveniently leaving out data or possibly didn't take into account other factors....
Nope, no need to look at what data I used nor the tools to analyze the data.... I'm perfect and don't have an agenda
I guess with 5 or 6 million for research , they could be sure COAL mining must be stopped.
"Technically it's true that we don't have direct environmental data that we can link in this study," said co-author Michael Hendryx, associate professor of community medicine at West Virginia University. "But if you look over the whole set of research documenting air and water quality problems caused by mountaintop removal, I think we've passed the point where we can say we don't really know enough and we have to study more," Hendryx said.
Read more: Study notes spike in birth defects near mountaintop mining | State | Kentucky.com/
This is an add-on to my earlier post on these "expert scientists" who come to conclusions that don't require any outside review because "they are right"
Does anyone remember back in the '70's a pronouncement made in National Geographic by the "expert scientists" who said the Earth was going to freeze and there would be snow at the equator within our lifetime?
And we are to believe this study done by a self-professed coal hater?
This is an add-on to my earlier post on these "expert scientists" who come to conclusions that don't require any outside review because "they are right"
Does anyone remember back in the '70's a pronouncement made in National Geographic by the "expert scientists" who said the Earth was going to freeze and there would be snow at the equator within our lifetime?
And we are to believe this study done by a self-professed coal hater?
You're right. It's all lies. Don't believe them. Everything's fine and wonderful.
Always follow the money, let's see where this trail leads:
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While Tides only funds a few anti-coal groups directly, the bulk of Tide’s funding is funneled through the Appalachian Community Fund, based out of Knoxville TN. Founded in 1987, the fund provides grants “to groups working for progressive social change in Central Appalachia (East Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and West Virginia), and to be a sustainable resource base for community organizing and social change work in this region.”
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The Appalachian Community Fund between 2007 and 2001 gave $118,840 in grants to West Virginia organizations. $37,657 went to WV Free during that time, but $37,645 went to Coal River Mountain Watch and $26,227 went to the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.
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Both the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and Appalachian Voices sponsor the Coal River Wind Project, an effort by Coal River Mountain Watch to end MTR on Coal River Mountain and replace the surface mines with electric-generating wind farms.
Coal River Wind commissioned a study comparing MTR and wind energy. The study was done by Michael Hendryx, Ph.D., associate director of the West Virginia University Institute for Health Policy Research in WVU’s Department of Community Medicine through his firm, Downstream Strategies.
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The report favored wind power, which isn’t surprising since the funds for the study came from the groups above, plus the Sierra Club, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Green America, West Virginia Environmental Council, and Progressive Democrats of West Virginia. “The authors gratefully acknowledge the support from Coal River Mountain Watch and Sierra Club,” thanked Hendryx in the report.
Considering the professors history this would be no different than me citing a study from a mining group....
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