Just what is their actual endgame here?
- Convince our viewers to inhale toxic air.
+ ?
= Winning!
A lawyer who appeared on Fox's The Ingraham Angle claimed that the smoke, which blanketed New York in an orange haze, posed "no health risk."
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Despite not being a doctor, Malloy made health-related pronouncements on Wednesday night’s show.
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“But the reality is, there’s no health risk, Okay? There’s EPA research; they’ve done lots of clinical research on asthmatics, on elderly asthmatics, on children, on elderly with heart disease — not a cough or a wheeze from any of them.
“We have this kind of air in India and China all the time, uh, no public health emergency.”
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"Weir doesn’t know what he’s talking about; this doesn’t kill anybody, this doesn’t make anyone cough. This is not a health event, this doesn’t have anything to do with climate. First off, this is wildfire smoke, this is natural. This is not because of climate change…”
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“Particulate matter is very fine soot,” Milloy explained.
“Well, you don’t want to be breathing that in,” Ingraham countered.
“They’re just carbon particles, they’re innocuous. OK? They’re innocuous. There’s nothing in them, the EPA has all this testing, real, live human beings that shows no effect, it’s total junk science to claim this is hurting anybody.”
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CNN’s Weir had something to say about Milloy’s assertions.
“The guy trashing me is Steve Milloy, who spent the ’90s trying to convince the public that cigarette smoking has no effect on lungs before running strategy for a big coal company and joining the OG science denial gang at Heartland Institute and he seems super nice,” Weir tweeted.