Things That Make You Go, ‘Hm’

The good news seems to be the EPA has pulled its CHEERS study. The bad news is that CHEERS was a study “in which parents were paid to spray pesticides in the rooms occupied by their infant children under age 3.”

Yes. This is the way the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) summed up the study, and Sen. Barbara Boxer concurs: “The CHEERS program was a reprehensible idea that never should have made it out of the boardroom, and I am just happy that it was stopped before any children were put in harm’s way,” Boxer says.

PEER says, “While CHEERS will not go forward with EPA funding, the exact same study can proceed with private sponsors…”

I know nothing really about the study, but, um, sounds dubious, no?

Have a great day.