Interesting Result from FOIA Request to EPA

EPA human experiments debunk notion of ‘killer’ air pollution: Agency hides exculpatory results

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has conducted air pollution experiments on live human subjects that discredit its claims that fine particulate matter kills people.
JunkScience.com obtained the explosive and heretofore undisclosed results through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and reveal them here for the first time.

As somebody said in the comments, the results they released wouldn't pass muster in an elementary school science fair.

You should click through to read the whole thing- it's not very long.

Then consider this- the EPA exposed 41 human beings to levels of PM2 much higher than those that the EPA claims are fatal.Two people, and only two people, showed any response. Actually, one of those two said she didn't feel anything, but the EPA researchers insisted she was having heart palpitations- and that one also already had a history of health problems.  The EPA has ONLY reported on one of the 41 subjects. They have ignored the 39 who had no respone whatsoever and attempted to hide it from the public.

The EPA takes the position that PM2.5 is so dangerous that it needs to set exceedingly stringent regulatory standards. The EPA’s PM2.5 air-quality standards are violated when PM2.5 levels exceed 35 micrograms per cubic meter in ambient air during a 24-hour period, or when they exceed 15 micrograms per cubic meter on average over the course of a year – and the EPA is looking to further tighten these standards in 2013.
Returning to the agency’s human experimentation, how much PM2.5 did the study subjects inhale in the name of EPA science? One subject was exposed to 750 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic meter, or more than 21 times the EPA’s 24-hour standard. Seven subjects were exposed to levels 10 times greater than the 24-hour standard. No study subject was exposed to less than 35 micrograms per cubic meter. Remember, Ms. Jackson said PM2.5 doesn’t make you sick. It just kills you – quickly.
Although PM2.5 is allegedly so deadly, the experiments were stopped in only two cases. One was a 58-year old woman, who EPA experimented on despite her personal medical history of Stage 1 hypertension, premature atrial contractions, osteoarthritis, gall bladder removal and a family history of heart disease (her father had a fatal heart attack at age 57). Her experiment was stopped when she experienced atrial fibrillation. In the other case, the woman experienced no clinical effects, but the EPA nevertheless stopped her experiment after researchers detected a momentary increase in heart rate.
EPA particulate matter assertions notwithstanding, PM2.5 killed none of the study subjects, and the two experiments that were stopped can likely be explained by causes other than PM2.5.

 EPA officials have testified before Congress that these levels are fatal, but they've done experiments on human beings (last year) using so called fatal levels of PM2. Are they heinous Dr. Mengele types or venial money grubbing, bureaucratic Fagins and Mr. Bumbles?

I'm inclined to believe they themselves do not believe a word of the claptrap they spouted to Congress.