RBC I Researchers in Colorado just came forward with a shocking claim: hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the decades-old method of using a high-velocity mixture of water, sand and chemicals to blast through rock to release oil and gas deposits, causes birth defects.
There’s just one hitch: it isn’t true.
Like many environmental activists’ policy positions on natural gas development, this mistaken conclusion is based on a combination of faulty science, selective reading of evidence and…