EPA throws out science in favor of anti-regulatory ideology

In her latest opinion piece for The BMJ (British Medical Journal), Naomi Oreskes examines the US Environmental Protection Agency's recent actions on climate science and glyphosate. These moves, she argues, are not really about science — they are about dismantling the regulatory state. The administration repealed the greenhouse gas endangerment finding. It invoked the Defense Production Act to shield glyphosate manufacturers. Corporate profits, not public health, are driving the agenda. Oreskes connects these actions to a longer history of industry obstruction, from tobacco to fossil fuels, and asks what scientists and medical professionals should do when even "pure" science inevitably illuminates political problems.

The full piece is freely available at The BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s465