The NYT finally finds a scientist it doesn't like

She received her Ph.D. in toxicology from Johns Hopkins University. She taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health. She served as a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute. And she’s now affiliated with both the American College of Epidemiology and the Academy of Toxicological Sciences. She believes in “the science.”

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There’s just one problem. Goodman doesn’t think the federal government should come into your home and rip out your gas stove. In her (expert) opinion, studies linking the suddenly controversial appliance to childhood asthma are flawed. They don’t justify dramatic action.

Goodman’s evidence-based conclusions made her, understandably, an attractive resource to the gas industry’s lobbying arm, which has paid her to testify on its behalf. It’s a tale as old as time, but news to the New York Times, which published a hit piece on Sunday arguing that Goodman is little more than a gas industry shill posing as an “independent scientist.”

[The Times is little more than a progressive shill posing as an independent news organization these days. Perhaps this is just a case of projection. One case in point among many: they still have yet to write a single word about the unmasking of Hamilton 68’s ruse, despite their earlier reliance on the group in 2017 and 2018 in the Russia-collusion hoax. — Ed]

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