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Steven Milloy has the top ten junk science claims of the year. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Whelan has her own list on health reporting:
Kevin Trudeau's book on Natural Cures which argues that "medical science has absolutely, 100 percent failed in the curing and prevention of disease," and says that tap water can kill you and that organic food is our only hope — is one of 2005's best-selling advice books.
As long as our public educational system remains an overfunded, bureaucratized, managed-by-education-majors disaster, there will be a ready market for pseudoscientific nonsense.
Posted by Rand Simberg at December 30, 2005 10:29 AM
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Even then I'd bet.
People believe what they want to believe until they are forced to change. Even then they may successfully resist.
Change like this occurs over generations.
Posted by Alfred Differ at December 31, 2005 07:25 PM
ah, Fox news' Junk Science, which quotes "Pacific Research Institute" for it's global warming information.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Pacific_Research_Institute
Posted by meiza at January 3, 2006 05:01 AM
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