FLASHBACK… 25 years ago in the NYTimes: ‘New View Calls Environmental Policy Misguided’

Honest reporting like this earned New York Times reporter Keith Schneider the wrath of environmental groups which eventually cost him his job. Read the entire article.

WINNING!! EPA chief to ban use of ‘secret science’ in rulemaking

JunkScience.com has been working this issue for 20+ years.

Blast from the Past: On February 11, 1999, JunkScience.com ran this sweepstakes to generate support for the fight against secret science.

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Claim: Cutting carbon emissions sooner could save 153 million lives

False. Duke’s Drew Shindell knows nothing about air quality epidemiology — at least that is a charitable explanation for this junk science.

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Claim: Lead causes 250,000 heart disease deaths per year

This is study is evidence of nothing. Bruce Lanphear is a long-time lead scare profiteer.

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The Extent and Consequences of P-Hacking in Science

P-hacking is where researchers collect or select data and statistical analysis until nonsignifiant results become significant.

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Trump’s Tariffs: A Tool for Free Trade

No, it’s not NOT Smoot-Hawley all over again.

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Publication bias and the canonization of false facts

‘Science’ is facing a replication crisis.

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NO… blacks not a higher risk from PM2.5 than whites…. NO

PM2.5 doesn’t kill people — white, black or purple. But it does make researchers of all skin colors dishonest.

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Claim: Coral reef experiment shows acidification from carbon dioxide slows growth

Nah.

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Milloy quote on Pompeo is NYTimes headline

The quote in the NYTimes headline is mine. Who’d a thunk that would ever happen?

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Steve Milloy quoted in Trump EPA Report of First Year Accomplishments

Also had a great meeting today with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt! Big things happening!

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Study: US cancer treatment guidelines ‘often based on weak evidence’

So far the war on cancer has largely been an expensive failure. Some success, but mostly not.

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