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  • From: Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] So what happened to ice skating?
  • Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:37:34 -0400




On 7/7/06 10:25 AM, "Michael Czeiszperger" <michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:

>
> 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

You really think they have something against science after reading the page?
That page is nothing but science! It has nothing to do with the bible or
anything anti-science. These guys spell it out quite nicely:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/harris061206.htm

> 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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> -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC
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