Premise: Timothy Noah writes in Chatterbox () that the fuss over the poisoning deaths of 800,000 animals at a cost of $15 million in taxpayer funds in the Environmental Protection Agency and the Chemical Manufacturers Association high production volume (HPV) chemical testing program is about a whole lot of nothing.

Hypothesis: The animals died from suffocation and were not poisoned, at a cost of $3.50.
Relation: contradiction