All Posts Tagged With: "junk science"

Junk Science Smites Craigslist

Will hysteria or science prevail? I am rooting for science but betting on hysteria.

12Apr2011 | Wendy McElroy | 18 comments | Continued

Does Obesity Justify Big Government?

Last January media outlets reported that cancer had
overtaken heart disease as the number-one killer
in the United States. Sounds scary, no?

1Oct2005 | Radley Balko | 1 comment | Continued

The State of the Air: Propaganda, Not Science

Each May the American Lung Association (ALA) issues “The State of the Air” in which it reports on ground-level ozone pollution county by county over a three-year period. The study gives each county a grade (A-F) based on what are called “ozone exceedence days” and calculates the number of people “put at risk” for respiratory [...]

1Oct2003 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | Continued

Chemical Hysteria and Environmental Politics

Contributing editor Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Chemicals are one of the wonders of human creation. They help heal and feed us; they help fuel our autos and heat our homes; they help produce toys and computers. Yet [...]

1Jul2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued

Government Needs to Lose Weight

How ironic that just as an already bloated government is taking on major new powers, it is exhorting us to lose weight. That’s exactly what former Surgeon General David Satcher did before leaving office. In his “Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity,” Dr. Satcher wrote that “Our ultimate goal is to [...]

1Jun2002 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Book Reviews – 2002/2

Voodoo Science by Robert Park Oxford University Press — 2000 — 230 pages — $25.00 Reviewed by Patrick J. Michaels I really wanted to like Robert Park’s Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud a lot more than I did. It’s a pretty good book about how bad science manages to prosper and replicate, [...]

1Feb2002 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | Continued

The Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control

Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? —Juvenal Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived [...]

1Apr2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 6 comments | Continued

Hoodwinking the Nation by Julian Simon

Transaction Publishers • 1999 • 140 pages • $29.95 Julian Simon was an energetic, irrepressible, and effective champion of freedom. His untimely death in 1998 silenced a voice—arguably the foremost voice—of reason on the subjects of population, resources, and the environment. The word “irreplaceable” comes to mind when one thinks back over his career as [...]

1Feb2000 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | Continued

Silencing Science

This slim volume is an ironic how-to guide for heavy-handed regulators, panic-mongering activists, demagogic politicians, venal trial lawyers, dogmatic religionists, and anyone else with an interest in stifling or manipulating science. In breezy style, the authors explain how to impede research and suppress data, using lawsuits, regulation, intimidation, and other methods. They also show how [...]

1Oct1999 | Kenneth Silber | 0 comments | Continued

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