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{{Of course this story begs the question of why the arsenic levels were just
fine until the day before Clinton left office. I wonder if it had been Al
Gore being sworn in the next day if he would have even signed this on his
way out the door. I think he would not have done so and risked the wrath of
his corporate backers. But what the heck? Maybe he would have done so
since so much of his money came from foreign governemnts and militaries.
And pardons. AKE}}
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Thursday, April 24, 2001 1:07 p.m. EDT
Dems' Arsenic Scare a Big Lie
Don't look now, but the country is in the midst of a political crime in
progress, as the Democratic Party and its media co-conspirators attempt to
hijack the truth about the threat posed by arsenic in the drinking water.
What with all the television hand-wringing over the Bush administration's
decision to put Bill Clinton's last-minute arsenic regulations on hold,
you'd think someone had actually studied the effects of current levels of
arsenic in the drinking water supply.
But it's not true.
At least not according to the Wall Street Journal, which ran an editorial on
Wednesday chock full of inconvenient details for those who hoped to foist
more politically motivated environmental junk science on an unsuspecting
public.
Since 1942, the government has deemed drinking water arsenic levels of 50
parts per billion safe for human consumption. That was the standard until
three days before Bill Clinton left the White House when, in the midst of
auctioning off pardons, he decided to tighten the restriction to 10 parts
per billion.
What evidence did the Clinton administration have that the 50 ppb standard
was dangerous? None whatsoever, it turns out.
That's because all the studies purporting to show any health risk examined
arsenic levels no lower than "several hundred parts per billion," the
Journal said.
The Enivironmental Protection Agency relied on questionable extrapolations o
f existing data, i.e., if an arsenic level of 400 ppb causes 12 cases of
male bladder cancer per 1,000 population, then a 50 ppb level would cause
1.5 cancer cases.
But no one really knows if the 50 ppb standard is dangerous at all. "Some
studies even suggest that arsenic in low levels is an essential nutrient,"
the Journal noted.
Epidemiological evidence from Taiwan, Argentina and Chile has shown a link
between cancer and higher levels of arsenic exposure. Yet New Mexico, the
only state with routinely high levels of arsenic in the water, ranks 48th
out of 50 in per capita cases of bladder cancer.
Still, despite the absence of any scientifically documented danger, the
Democratic Party's environmental nut cases and their media mouthpieces have
got all of America wondering whether its drinking water is posioned.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
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