Category: Chemicals

Get the lead hysteria out

By Steven Milloy
March 16, 2001, FoxNews.com

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last December that levels of lead in children continue to decline. That’s a scary thought to the lead hysteria industry. This week the lead-heads launched an effort to “head off” any further good news about lead. Continue reading Get the lead hysteria out

A Scoop of Debunkey Monkey, Please

By Steven Milloy
July 8, 2000, FoxNews.com

The Environmental Protection Agency says the much-ballyhooed environmental contaminant dioxin is 10 times more dangerous than previously thought. Environmental activists already have begun a food scare campaign centered on dioxin. But amidst this eco-terrorism, the long-running and costly health scare over the dreaded dioxin is finally debunked — courtesy of ice cream maker, Ben & Jerry’s. Continue reading A Scoop of Debunkey Monkey, Please

Vinyl IV Bags: Media lose message

By Steven J. Milloy
March 27, 2000, Chicago Sun-Times

Deerfield-based Baxter Healthcare has been vindicated on a major health scare. But don’t expect to read about it in the media. It’s more fun to scare readers about vinyl IV bags causing cancer than it is to set the record straight. Continue reading Vinyl IV Bags: Media lose message

Save plastic IV-bags so they can save you

By Steven J. Milloy
March 1, 1999, Washington Times

Chemical companies have helped Americans attain the highest standard of living in history. But one would never know it from the industry. The least credible accusation against its products can send manufacturers into panicked retreat. That’s a fact that anti-chemical activists have learned all too well and exploit unmercifully, to the great detriment of consumers who might otherwise have benefited from these products. Continue reading Save plastic IV-bags so they can save you

Did You Hear? Good News from Cancer Alley

By Michael Gough
October 15, 1997, Cato Daily

Everyone knows that cancer rates are sky-high along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. How could it be otherwise? Louisiana is one of the three states with the most “industrial toxic emissions.” Chemical refineries line the banks of the river that, loaded with the effluent of the farms and factories of the Midwest in addition to whatever it picks up in Louisiana, is the source of New Orleans’s drinking water. No wonder the area’s called “cancer alley.” Continue reading Did You Hear? Good News from Cancer Alley

Junk Science: It's The Law

by Steven Milloy and Michael Gough
August 25, 1997, Investor’s Business Daily

Bad science comes. Bad science goes. That’s the great thing about science. It’s only as permanent as it is sound. But what happens when bad science becomes law? Continue reading Junk Science: It's The Law