[Laptop_Ron]

Please note that of the 10 listed, one of them (the DDT hoax) cost the lives of millions of people who could have been helped but weren't because of a bogus study and do-good-ism.

[gcruse]

It's shocking, if true, that low fat diets have no impact of cardiovascular disease. Is cholesterol purely a matter of heredity, now? Maybe that's why the doctor didn't put me on any special diet when starting me on Lipitor. I eat what I always did. Thank Zeus for my stent, though.

[zipper]

I just saw on CNBC that Bill Gates' foundation funds 1/3 of the world's malaria research. I wonder how the foundation feels about the use of DDT? I think he's smart enough not to fall for the junk science -- but on the other hand I hear his foundation's philosophy is liberal-minded.

[neverdem]

Low-Income Preschoolers Prone to Obesity

Popular heartburn drugs linked to hip fractures

Long-term Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy and Risk of Hip Fracture link to JAMA abstract

Check out the comment from the link in comment# 8, "Low-Fat Diet Myth Busted."

"But in the much-vaunted Framingham Heart Study involving 5,200 men and women who have been extensively studied in over 1,000 published reports since 1948, high cholesterol levels were not associated with increased heart disease risk after age 47."

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[bmwcyle]

Reversed Bad Science in 2006 --- Silicon Breast Implants return to chests near you.

[BuffaloJack]

Unfortunately there isn't one liberal who will ever read or believe any of the debunked junk science myths perpetrated on the population over the past 30 years or so.
These people will continue to believe that the only way to "save the Earth" is to rid it of humans.

[BlessedBeGod]

More comments:

Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006

Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006

[petercooper]

bttt

[Still Thinking]

The widely-held 30-year old notion that low-fat diets are good for your health went ?poof? this year. They didn?t reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer, according to three large studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Sadly, the lesson of low-fat diet myth seems lost on the media which looked the other way as public health nannies fomented the scientifically dubious trans fat scare.

The last sentence is a bit of a non sequitur. The people who fear trans fats don't do so because they're fats per se. They believe trans fats have other deleterious effects. (And since CSPI/PETA/etc foisted the trans fatty oils on us to get rid of lard, I'm not sure those people aren't correct). Thinking's theorem: if liberals came up with an idea, it will eventually be proven wrong.

[Still Thinking]

1. Some Real Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore whipped the world into a global warming frenzy with his doomsday documentary, ?An Inconvenient Truth.? Milloy personally asked Mr. Gore to help arrange a debate between scientists about the purported climate catastrophe. He declined (twice) without explanation -- leaving me to wonder why global warming alarmists are unwilling to explain why they believe in non-validated and always-wrong computer guess-timations of future climate change rather than actual temperature measurements and greenhouse-effect physics that indicate manmade emissions of greenhouse gases are not a problem.

Because that would take away the power issue they want to use to subjugate us carbon-serfs.

[BuglerTex]

BTTT

[steelyourfaith]

bttt

[youthgonewild]

Some pitiful people on here who don't believe in global warming or stem cell research.

[Coleus]

Junk Science bttt