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COMEAP’s particulates advice deserves to be questioned

Paul Withrington, Transport-Watch, Northampton NN2
13 November 2020
 

Alan Wenban-Smith’s categorisation of my exposure of the flimsy and contradictory nature of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution’s analyses on particulates, as that of a “conspiracy theorist”, is inappropriate (ibid). 

It was the committee not me, that pointed out the extraordinarily wide 75 per cent plausibility limits (one-sixth to double the values cited) and the committee, not me, that published Professor Hopke’s view that policy decisions...

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