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Medical Journal Caves to Environmentalists (12/28/97) In an apparent bow to pressure from environmentalists, the New England Journal of Medicine publicly humiliates a book reviewer who dared to criticize Sandra Steingraber's book Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment. Click here for a the book review in question. Click here for the related news article. Maybe the NEJM should change its name to the New England Journal of Politically Correct Medicine?
Double Standard: Diesel Exhaust and Secondhand Smoke (12/20/97) What would Mr. Rogers say about the new meta-analysis of the diesel exhaust epidemiology?
The AMA: American Marketing Association? (12/05/97) Will the American Medical Association give up medicine for market research?
Dioxin a "Known" Carcinogen? (11/19/97) The National Toxicology Program's external peer review panel has recommended that 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin be upgraded from "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" to "known to be a human carcinogen." I guess the panel must have missed this new study.
Pope-a-Dope? (11/13/97) Did EPA take its air pollution strategy from Muhammed Ali?
Kangaroo Court: The Working Group on Public Health and Fossil Fuel Combustion (11/8/97) Conveniently timed junk science claims 8 million will die unless a climate treaty is signed.
Secondhand Joking (10/27/97) U.K. researchers tell an old EPA joke!
The Anti-tobacco Campaign of the Nazis: A Little Known Aspect of Public Health in Germany 1933-1945 (10/23/97) From the British Medical Journal, find out why the term "public health Nazi" is not necessarily hyperbole!
EPA to Asthmatic Kids: Hold Your Breath (9/19/97) Irony of ironies! In the same week EPA kicked off its campaign to exploit children's health, the agency proposes to take away an important option for treating asthma.
Amherst's Smoking Ban: Town Board of Health is Bored of Science (8/20/97) Find out why the Amherst, Massachusetts Board of Health believes in "junk science über alles!"
Ross Gelbspan: Pulitzer Prize Fraud (7/24/97) In a Junk Science Home Page exclusive, the author of a highly touted book on global warming turns out to be a legend in his own mind!
Bruce Babbitt: The Joe McCarthy of Climate Change? (7/23/97) Watch out for the witchhunt for those "un-American pseudo-scientists" -- courtesy of the Secretary of the Interior!
Air Pollution and SIDS (6/13/97) On the eve of the decision about EPA's proposed air quality standards, a desperate agency does a desperate thing.
Schering Plough's Low Blow (6/9/97) Schering Plough says its competitor's product (Ex-Lax) causes cancer. I say Schering Plough deserves a junk science enema!
Does Circumcision Cause Blindness (4/3/97)? If justice is blind, is it likely to have been circumcised?
Summertime Haze by The Air Pollution Experience (3/3/97) The American Lung Association (ALA) recently refused to debate the Junkman on national radio about the new EPA-funded, ALA-published, junk-science fueled study on air pollution and asthma. Here's why!
September Surprise: Industry Group Achieves Junk Science Hall of Shame (09/05/96) The EPA response and public comments are in about statistical significance and the cancer risk assessment guidelines.
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