{"id":1238,"date":"2017-05-07T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-660259-4601660.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2024-11-04T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T14:25:06","slug":"trump-pruitt-fire-top-epa-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collinslaw.com\/blog\/trump-pruitt-fire-top-epa-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\/Pruitt Fire Top EPA Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collinslaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sun-1884518_1920-thumb-300x171-85395-jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1247\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The oil industry hack (Scott Pruitt) who was appointed by President Trump to head the EPA has just quietly fired half the members of the EPA\u2019s Science Advisory Board. This is the group of highly-regarded and dedicated scientists who determine, for example, the dangers to human health threatened by the chemicals that the oil industry and others force into our environment. It is not clear at this moment whether Pruitt plans to not replace the members of the Science Advisory Board at all-which would be logical, since Trump and Pruitt are openly hostile to science-or to replace the scientists with frauds who, for example, deny that pesticides harm children and that petroleum industrial pollution has anything to do with global warming. It\u2019s (yet another) sad day for human health and the environment in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firing scientists who make decisions based on scientific evidence smacks of Galileo being convicted of suspected heresy for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun. The scary thing is that, while Galileo was condemned for telling scientific truths in 1633, Pruitt did the same thing this past weekend. Almost 400 years later. Maybe Pruitt has found some nut in a lab coat who will say that Galileo was wrong, after all, and deserved to be convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/epa-fires-members-science-advisory-board\"><strong>http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/epa-fires-members-science-advisory-board<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oil industry hack (Scott Pruitt) who was appointed by President Trump to head the EPA has just quietly fired half the members of the EPA\u2019s Science Advisory Board. 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