EPA's CRUSADERS

by George Will
Syndicated Columnist

A bit of sunshine recently burst forth from the otherwise bleak political landscape of America: a federal judge's ruling that the EPA engaged in fraud in its alleged findings regarding second-hand smoke.

The fact that federal agencies routinely dummy up phony reports should come as no surprise. 

In Fatal Blindness, I wrote:   "The dramatic rise, mostly on the federal level, of welfare programs for science and scientists has become a dreadful tool for statists in their war against your freedom.  These government-paid scientists are engaged in all sorts of dubious research, research which brings us a steady stream of warnings about some new, alleged danger from smoking, from the water you drink, from the food you eat, from the air you breath, from some product you might purchase and on and on and on.  There is just no end to the things which might bring harm to you.  Most in this country have gotten to the point where they have little respect for the claims of these scientists, hence the name 'junk science,' and merely yawn when they see the headlines proclaiming some new danger to you—and while they yawn, statists do their grisly work.  What is really the end result of the 'findings' of these government scientists?  They are used by statists as the justification for enacting law after law regulating smoking, the water you drink, the food you eat, the air you breath and the products you buy—all of which adds up to you having less freedom, more regulations—all of which is taking us swiftly down that slippery slope which is going to dump you right into the fiery, gas ovens of dictatorship."

George Will's article exposes the fraud of the EPA.

Fulton Huxtable
August 9, 1998

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