Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are adding to a body of evidence suggesting links between the natural gas industry and certain health problems.

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    1 year ago

    I’m skeptical of a lot of claims around fracking. Remember gasland? Those people had naturally flammable water for a long time before any drilling but they found a pay day by blaming fracking. Lots of scientific studies these days are also fraught with fraud which makes trusting anything ever even harder.

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      1 year ago

      Again, plenty to read and think about in the article; The research is coming from The taxpayer-funded research by the University of Pittsburgh, so doesn’t appear to be funded by a company with an agenda, and the awful after-effects of fracking are not hard to find - even from accredited sources. The article does mention there’s no definitive link quite yet, just correlation.

      I have not seen Gasland, but documentaries should not be trusted as scientific fact as they tend to be extremely biased and often produced by non-experts for the sake of entertainment. One thing about the Gasland-debunker to note: I’m not going to do a deep dive on him, but he has an extended history with 3 companies well-known for covering up their contributions to climate change.