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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Jul 5, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:

> A good starting point:
> http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
> Its long but if you are at all interested in hearing both sides of  
> an issue

The "junk science" political movement is quite interesting.  The  
religious right has an inherent animosity towards science vis-a-vie  
that bible thing, and is flexing its might by attacking science on  
all fronts, which ties in nicely with corporations who want to  
decrease both government regulation and legal liability.  For  
example, Fox News has a "junk science" column where they feature the  
weekly outrage by those evil liberal, god-hating scientists.

Here's a good example: second-hand smoke.  Even the Bush  
Administration's own surgeon General says that there is "overwhelming  
scientific evidence" that secondhand smoke causes heart disease, lung  
cancer, and other illnesses, and that there's "no safe level of  
secondhand smoke". (Recent articles on CNN and NYT.)

And yet to the good people at junkscience.com say that "The largest- 
ever study on secondhand smoke and lung cancer ... reported no  
statistically significant increase in lung cancer risk associated  
with exposure to secondhand smoke".

http://www.junkscience.com/foxnews/fn030901.htm


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