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Nelson_Mandela posted...

If being peer reviewed is the only criterion in question then this is 100% good policy. You can't get medications approved on the basis of a peer-reviewed study alone, for example.

That's not the policy. They should already only be considering peer-reviewed research. The change is to only allow the EPA to consider research with publicly available data, and there are potentially very good reasons why the data might not be available (most notably if it involves private health data as many studies relevant to potential EPA regulations do).

The really pernicious thing about this is that there is a real, well-intentioned movement within the scientific community to increase the availability of the underlying data used in studies, but here Pruitt and his goons are twisting those valid concerns to justify ignoring tons of good science that's inconvenient for them, knowing that it will take a ton of time and money to repeat those studies while conforming to these rules (if they could even get published at all given that they wouldn't be novel work).
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