“Particulate matter, found in wildfire smoke, has “no effect” on human health and is “total junk science.”
Steve Milloy
Fox News guest. The Ingraham Angle. Claim dated 7 Jun 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The health effects linked to particulate pollution exposure have been studied and documented for decades. These effects include respiratory and cardiovascular health problems and premature death.
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In short
Steve Milloy (Fox News guest) made this claim around 7 June 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 June 2023, 20 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Steve Milloy has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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