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CALIFORNIA: GREEN REGULATION AND ACADEMIC CORRUPTION. Another researcher who found no connection?

By Glenn Reynolds

CALIFORNIA: GREEN REGULATION AND ACADEMIC CORRUPTION.

Another researcher who found no connection between diesel particulates and ?premature deaths? decided to check on Tran?s credentials, and discovered that his PhD had come from a diploma mill, bought for $1000. When the researcher, UCLA?s Dr. James Enstrom, blew the whistle on Tran and insisted that CARB needed to consider his work before passing the new regulation, a curious thing happened. After 34 years on the job, UCLA fired Enstrom. Why? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that two powerful CARB commissioners, Mary Nichols and John Froines, are also UCLA professors. According to Balaker, Froines voted to give Enstrom his pink slip.

Sounds shady. F.I.R.E. is on the case.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).