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from the Don't-Read^W-Breathe-Between-the-Lines dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes:
The German government has denounced experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes.
On Thursday The New York Times reported that the EUGT research was designed to counter a 2012 decision by the World Health Organization to classify diesel exhaust as a carcinogen.
It said that in 2014, EUGT had exposed 10 monkeys to fumes - in an air-tight chamber - from several cars, including a diesel VW Beetle. The testing took place at a lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Then at the weekend Germany's Stuttgarter Zeitung and SWR radio reported that 19 men and six women had inhaled diesel fumes in another EUGT experiment.
During a month of tests at a lab in Aachen, west Germany, they were exposed to various concentrations of diesel fumes, which contain toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx). The BBC has not seen the study itself, but German media say it was published in 2016.
At the time the carmakers were arguing that modern technology had cut pollution from diesel engines to safe levels. But VW was later found to have fitted "cheat" devices that rigged the emissions data.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42858668
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday January 30 2018, @03:41PM
Failure is okay. Ask Elon Musk. A failure is more data and more learning about what not to do.
So go back and try again. (if at first you don't succeed, use a shorter bungee)
Hint: next time, your air-tight chamber should be either US Congress or Parliament, and various other chambers for continuing experiments until you can prove that humans aren't harmed from engine exhaust fumes. Maybe only legislators that promote air pollution should be tested -- to confirm their own beliefs and prove to their constituents that what they believe is really true! Hey, maybe similar testing for the combustion products of "Clean Coal"! And toxic waste dumped into water supplies.
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