Report: Congress Should Stop Funding International Junk Science Agency | Competitive Enterprise Institute

Report: Congress Should Stop Funding International Junk Science Agency | Competitive Enterprise Institute
"American taxpayers fund an international agency that puts out junk science, scaring consumers and leading to costly jury decisions and unnecessary product bans, a new Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) report documents.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is an influential but secretive research group, funded by world governments and housed within the World Health Organization. 
...The agency focuses on determining if a chemical or activity poses a “hazard,” but that should be just the first step in risk assessment. 
The next steps should consider dose and exposure and whether actual human exposures are significant enough to matter.
“IARC’s hazard-based approach results in nonsensical cancer classifications, placing plutonium and smoking in the same carcinogenic category as salty fish and processed meats,” said Angela Logomasini, CEI senior fellow and author of the report. 
“Worse, the organization has become tainted by political influences and conflicts of interest.”...
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