- A million Peruvians became infected with cholera, and 10,000 died,
after chlorination of drinking water was stopped because of EPA policy.
- In India the death toll from malaria rose from 200,000 to 3 million
annually after the U.S. government banned DDT.
- Worldwide, several times as many people die every year because of the U.S. government's ban on DDT and other pesticides as
were killed by Hitler's holocaust, by both sides in all the years
of the war in Viet Nam, and by the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
combined.
- EPA's policy on asbestos removal results in people having greater exposure to asbestos, and to far more dangerous substances!
- Studies show that seatbelt usage decreases fatalities slightly for
drivers, but increases deaths for rear-seat passengers,
cyclists, and pedestrians. Analysts say that mandatory safety equipment
leads drivers to be more aggressive and take greater risks.
- Read how EPA falsified sulfur dioxide emission studies in order
to force stringent regulations on utility companies and other coal-burning
industries.
- Learn how each $1 billion in interest on the national debt results
in about 200 fatalities.
- Discover one simple fact that would tell you that CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) can't be destroying the ozone layer over Antarctica.
And read about the NASA study that found CFCs came in "a very poor
last" as a cause for lower levels of global ozone.
- Read about how the number of personal injury insurance claims increased for various models of automobiles after airbags became standard equipment.
- There is no evidence of global warming. The world's ice caps are
not melting. The Greenland ice sheet has actually thickened by two
meters since it was first measured by laser altimetry in 1980. And
satellite temperature measurements show no evidence of global warming.
- Learn how and why the public education system indoctrinates our
children with the idea that government is the solution to all the
problems of society.
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