.ZeeshanAleem: It's shocking but not surprising that Fox News invited on a former Big Tobacco propagandist to falsely claim wildfire smoke isn't harmful.
to stay indoors in order to protect themselves from extraordinary levels of wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada. Across the Northeast, countless people have reported seeing orange haze and experiencing acute physical discomfort from inhaling particulate matter. Stanford researchers have already rated the intensity of the pollution one of the
But if you turn on Fox News, an"expert" will tell you that it's all in your head. There is no crisis. And it'sOn Wednesday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham introduced Steve Milloy as a “senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute and Trump-era transition team member” on her show, after which he proceeded to barrage viewers with the misinformation that the smoke from the wildfires isn't harmful.
According to Milloy, there is no"health risk" associated with wildfire smoke. Americans, he argued, are simply succumbing to"anxiety." That is false. As anyone who has ever inhaled smoke can intuit, it's not something that's meant to be in one's lungs. And this is not a source of debate or controversy among scientists and public health experts.
Milloy also tried to deceive audiences by pointing out that India and China have"this kind of" poor air quality all the time, and that there is"no public health emergency" in those places. That is also false.
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