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Spin of the Day | Forum | Impropaganda Review | Books | Links | Search Home Archives 4th Quarter 1999 Saving the Planet With Pestilent Statistics Volume 6, No. 4 Flack Attack Force Feeding Genetically Engineered Foods Monsanto and Burson-Marsteller Hire a Consumer Organizer The Professor Who Can Read Your Mind Biotechnology Will Feed the World and Other Myths Saving the Planet with ...

Corporate Junk Science In The Media (Part 1) By Edward S. Herman Corporate junk science plays an extremely important role in the public relations and regulatory strategies of the chemical industry. It aims, first, to reassure the public that pesticides and other chemicals are not a public health threat and are essential to economic growth and welfare. But it is also designed to create enough ...

Strange bedfellows: Journalists as corporate shills Why do Americans hate the press Maybe it's because so many reporters are in bed with the rich and powerful. By MARK SCHAPIRO NEW YORK When you make your living as an ostensible muckraker, you better be careful where you step -- as John Stossel learned to his cost. Last week, the ABC News correspondent found himself stung by the target of his ...

Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W. Huber Basic Books, 1993 ISBN: 0465026249 Pages: 288 A feisty Peter Huber takes on the Goliaths of medical liability and judicial systems and documents the continuing heresy of pseudoscience and the mistaken post hoc logic of causation and its fringe experts. These have not only distorted justice but are also degrading the quality of ...