New “Marcellus Workers Cause STDs” So-Called Research Study
Those evil, nasty frackers just LOVE having sex. Sex, sex, sex, all the time. Everybody knows it. When shale workers arrive in town, the incidence of gonorrhea (i.e. "the clap") goes up. So says a laughable, totally made up "research study" recently published in the so-called Journal of Public Health Policy. This is not the first time we've heard this particular anti-fossil fuel argument--that shale causes sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). We've highlighted this anti lie a number of times over the years (see our stories here). Just like all lies pedaled by antis, they recycle this one again and again--it comes around every year or two. If you tell a lie often enough... This most recent permutation uses, in the exact words of the authors themselves, "a quasi-natural experiment within the Marcellus shale region plus panel data estimation techniques to quantify the impact of fracking activity on local gonorrhea incidences." In other words, they just made it up. Spit-balled. Guessed. Lied. There is no real science here...
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