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Top Ten Junk Science Stories of the Past Decade
Fox News ^ | Thursday, April 06, 2006 | Steven Milloy

Posted on 04/07/2006 5:02:25 PM PDT by cougar_mccxxi

My web site JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights 10 big junk science stories of the last 10 years. In no particular order, they are:

1. The most toxic manmade chemical? That’s what some called dioxin, a by-product of natural and industrial combustion processes and the “contaminant of concern” in the Vietnam-era defoliant known as Agent Orange. Billions of dollars have been spent studying and regulating dioxin, but debunking the scare only cost a few thousand dollars.

Keying off Ben & Jerry’s claim on its ice cream packages that “there is no safe exposure to dioxin,” we tested Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and found that a single serving contained about 200 times the dioxin that the Environmental Protection Agency says is “safe” – and who’s afraid of Ben & Jerry’s?

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1 posted on 04/07/2006 5:02:28 PM PDT by cougar_mccxxi
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To: cougar_mccxxi

Great article. Pulling Ben & Jerry's covers was the best!


2 posted on 04/07/2006 5:21:38 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: cougar_mccxxi

Oh, looks like *not* everything is going to kill us after all.


3 posted on 04/07/2006 5:23:35 PM PDT by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: cougar_mccxxi

bttt


4 posted on 04/07/2006 5:23:56 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: neverdem

ping


5 posted on 04/07/2006 6:31:43 PM PDT by raybbr
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To: cougar_mccxxi

I like #10:

"10. The Mother of all junk science controversies. The most important junk science story of the last 10 years is global warming. Though climate varies naturally and ongoing climate change is within that natural variation, the global warming lobby seems bent on railroading us into economy-killing regulation."

"The Kyoto Protocol is being ignored by its EU signatories. Global warmers admit that the drastic and impossible step of halting all greenhouse gas emissions would have no impact on climate..."


6 posted on 04/07/2006 7:06:35 PM PDT by concentric circles
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To: cougar_mccxxi
Wish one of the 10 had been about DDT.
7 posted on 04/07/2006 7:07:56 PM PDT by yhwhsman ("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: cougar_mccxxi
Intelligent Design isn't on the list-then again, it isn't science at all.

One of my favorite instances was the Center for Science in the Public Interest ( the term "public interest" should set off the same mental alarm bells as "social justice", as it's just another code word for encroaching statism) released a study claiming that movie popcorn would make you fat. Rush devoted a whole show to that one.

8 posted on 04/07/2006 7:28:18 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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To: RightWingAtheist

"Intelligent Design isn't on the list-then again, it isn't science at all."

You listen to Rush on occasion too eh? Talent on loan from God :)


9 posted on 04/09/2006 6:48:13 AM PDT by cougar_mccxxi
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