And I'll stand by that. I was reading a story on fark.com today I must explain my reactions to. Fark.com is is fun website but the way it works tends to confuse editorial with genuine news content. Anyway, there was a link to 'The Top 10 Junk Science Stories Of The Last Decade" as reported by Junkscience.com. Of course, I needed to read this, being deeply interested in such issues.
The story is here.Needless to say I was horrified. The site makes declarative statements about issues that are currently highly contentious, while at the same time making other declarative statements that are simply and patently false. There
is a correlation between high EMF exposure, say near high power lines, and
leukemia, for instance. The physics behind it is quite, quite simple. Anyway, what truly upset me is that his arguments against science quickly devolve into 'this stuff is bad science because the scientists are just trying to make big corporations and the government spend money.' Yeah. Great. Get bent, idiot.
So I did a little research. The guy who writes Junkscience.com is Steve Milloy. He has lots of fancy degrees in science, so I am really pretty shocked at his complete inability to understand the statistics of research. Or basic physics. I also like how much time he defends spending obese people. I think he is probably a closet fat person.
You can read about him here.Exxon Pays him. As does Philip Morris. His stated employer? Foxnews. I cannot tell you how sick this makes me.
Foxnews, I must congratulate you. You are the
truthiest.