Put-Up Job: Yale “Researchers” Meet with Locals in Belmont County
In June MDN told you about another sham "study" on the way from an anti-drilling "researcher" from Yale University, funded by Big Green groups (see Yale Arrives in Belmont County to Study the Evils of Fracking). Nicole Deziel arrived in Belmont and announced, in so many words, she would drag a $20 bill through a trailer park (literally willing to pay only $20) to "study" air and water samples from residents' domiciles as part of a new research "project" with a predetermined outcome--that they're being poisoned by fracking. Ms. Deziel wanted 100 participants and ended up with 66. After eight weeks of collecting samples and talking to people, Ms. Deziel held a wrap-up rally with area residents before departing town to discuss the "study"--saying she has no conclusions, yet. The reason we know this latest Yale study is a put-up job, and not real science, is because at the very same wrap-up meeting residents also heard from the radical anti-drilling group Ohio Environmental Council. That's the tip-off that this was not real research but hucksterism with a predetermined outcome...
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