Friday, July 27, 2012

Horrors! Unpublished Study Used to Raise Health Questions About Fracking

Dean Baker is angry at the NY Times over their treatment of the author of a new fracking study.--SS     

Horrors! Unpublished Study Used to Raise Health Questions About Fracking:

Elaine K. Hill, a doctoral candidate in Cornell University’s department of applied economics and management, found evidence that fracking is associated with the frequency of low birth weight babies. The findings of her study implied that for mothers living close to a fracking site, the probability of a low birth weight baby increased by 25 percent.

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