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A comment on EPA's proposed new rule would allow it to ignore the best available science. Parent comment

Re:EPA's proposed new rule would allow it to ignore the best... by Retric on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:34PM (#17528007)
Science is old.

Good luck tracking down data from ~50 year old studies published in 1970. Further, their is little point in replicating old studies so often that's all we got.

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Re:EPA's proposed new rule would allow it to ignore the best... by smsm42 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:47PM (#17562349)
1970 is not a Stone Age, and civilization didn't collapse since then. Why would it impossible to have data? Also, does it mean if a study in 1970 made a mistake, we're now doomed to carry on with this mistake forever? And if not, how would we discover it if not by trying to replicate/re-analyze data?
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