Inner City’s Toxic Air

Bernard and Green have rolled out all the canards on this one. I will not respond to their charge that business people who question the SCAQMD are anti-environment. I will not respond to the charge that opponents to what the authors view as “rational” regulation are bigoted or racist. But just once it would be nice to read an article like this and have the authors get the science right.

The 1989 USC Medical School study makes no links to cause and effect or other factors that would account for the findings. The study was not a representative sampling of the community. It made no link to emissions from factories. The conclusion jump that the authors made has the same credibility as that by Chicken Little.

DONNA NYGREN, Irvine