excellent reading!
Posted on 12/15/2006 5:53:38 AM PST by Zakeet
It’s time again for JunkScience.com’s review of the most notable junk science events of the year – a “top 10” list that may sometimes make you think that the year 1007, rather than 2007, is just around the corner.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Milloy rips environmental nuts, liberal loons, and Hollywierd elitists for getting their panties in a wad over such things as global warming, trans fats, DDT, cosmic rays, stem cells, woodpeckers and clean air.
Read about all your old favorites, including Algore, Bubba Clinton and Julia Roberts.
Then, if you really want to get depressed, check the Junk Science archives on the bottom of the page to see how little the clowns have learned over the years.
Ya gotta love Stev Milloy!!!!
Ping to an article of interest.
excellent reading!
Don't you love how liberals proclaim something is "incontrovertable" and then decline to debate the issue?
Its incontrovertable, there's no need to debate it. The one-time next-president who invented the internet says so.
Cold snaps, however, also prove global warming.
Everything proves global warming. If you pick your nose, that proves global warming.
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Everything proves global warming. If you pick your nose, that proves global warming.
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LOL.
Reminds me...our local weather guy must be bored. He said last night it might rain today...or not. Honestly, that's how he said it. Gee I come up with a weather forecast like that and I didn't study meterology.
Now why would you tell us that? Thanks alot Big Tuna. )sarc
Ping---enjoy
Makes sense to me. If it were indeed fact it wouldn't be something worth debating. The facts of the Holocaust are not debatable, yet those wacky Muslims from Iran decided to have a conference, the purpose of which was to deny it the fact that it ever happened.
Global warming due to human processes is not an idea that's incontrovertable. The fact that it isn't is what makes the refusal of the enviro-wackos to debate it so frustrating.
I don't think the woodpecker story belongs on the list. Seems like it's still an open question with consensus leaning towards thinking they DO live there. And anything that stops a $300 million Army Corp Boondoggle is a good thing in my book.
The Cleveland rag reprinted a column about the loss of costal areas around New Orleans. The article was weighing the costs and benefits of attempting to "repair" some of the barrier islands that have been eroding into the Gulf of Mexico. OK so far.
Then, at the very last sentence, the authors slipped in "global warming" as the root cause of all this erosion. Turned a reasonable discussion into junk science.
"Milloy also runs the Advancement of Sound Science Center and the Free Enterprise Action Institute. Those two groups—apparently run out of Milloy’s home—received $90,000 from ExxonMobil. Key quote: The date of Kyoto’s implementation will "live in scientific and economic infamy." Connections to ExxonMobil-funded groups: at least five. [5]
Writing in The New Republic in January 2006 Paul Thacker noted Milloy's long-term, close relationships with corporations, including ExxonMobil and Philip Morris. "According to Lisa Gonzalez, manager of external communications for Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, Milloy was under contract there through the end of last year," Thacker wrote. "But, whereas Scripps Howard fired Fumento and apologized to its readers, Fox News continues to look the other way as Milloy accepts corporate handouts," Thacker writes. Fox's Paul Schur told Thacker, "Fox News is unaware of Milloy's connection with Philip Morris." [6]
Milloy is also the co-founder, with tobacco industry executive Thomas Borelli, of the Free Enterprise Action Fund, which claims to be an investment fund that seeks "long-term capital appreciation through investment and advocacy that promote the American system of free enterprise." According to a January 26, 2006 report in the Chicago Tribune, "The fund's advocacy stance boils down to opposing many of the things supported by traditional 'social investment funds,' because issues like global warming or corporate governance distract business from its real role of operating in the best interests of shareholders." However, its performance as an investment has been less than stellar. The Tribune called it the "Stupid Investment of the Week ... Strip away the rhetoric, and you're getting a very expensive, underperforming index fund, while Milloy and partner Thomas Borelli get a platform for raising their pet issues. ... An expense ratio capped at 2 percent--ridiculously high for a portfolio of corporate giants--makes stock market returns unrealistic. From inception on March 1 of last year through Dec. 31, Free Enterprise Action returned 2.32 percent; the S&P 500 returned 4.72 percent. That's ugly."
Did the article also mention that it's George Bush's fault. Usually, the mainstream media slips that in somewhere.
I don't know how it effects the weather, but I've read Cosmic Rays can make people catch on fire and fly, turn invisible, make you stretch like rubber, and turn you into a walking rock-pile with superhuman strength.
Please forgive my attempt at humor. 8-)
Please forgive my attempt at humor. 8-)
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You're forgiven. Actually, I think for some of this, if we didn't laugh, we'd probably cry. Look at DDT. How many lives were lost when the chemical was banned? It was the best weapon against malaria-bearing mosquitos and it was banned. Nothing was ever developed since that was so effective against the spread of this disease, and as a result, countless lives were lost. And all because of enviroweenies and their junk science. Wonderful!
Personal invective? I thought you were above that. You would have us shoot the messenger rather than debate the merits of his argument?
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