CONCLUSION
The story of cancer risk assessment as told by regulatory agencies such as the EPA is really a profound example of flawed science—the product of errors, deception, perverse incentives from academic grants, and ideology. A major remaining question is whether our regulatory agencies can honestly and objectively confront this history and make the needed corrections, or will they simply preserve the historical “lie” that they and society have long been living. If they do the latter, it will continue the harm to both science and public welfare.
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2019/3/regulation-v42n1-3.pdf