The phrase
"junk science" refers to unverified or poorly conducted scientific studies or theories that are not supported by reliable evidence or widely accepted by the scientific community. It suggests that the claims made by such studies are often inaccurate, exaggerated, or based on flawed methods.
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Starting with your commentary on research, it is important to not that there are many examples
of junk science in every medical field.
More
junk science in the government recommendations you'd like to see become mandates.
But before you start calling me names and blowing up the comment section
with junk science, I would respectfully encourage you to look at some of the other findings in this study.
It was sustained
by junk science and «alternative facts» about how many birds outdoor cats kill each year.
We also have — at times — been accused of
promoting junk science and on being on the fringe of our professional communities.
The same thing can happen with science (
often junk science) where people look in to something an then make a theory that does not hold up well with other evidence proves otherwise.
When I see people acting concerned about the science while promoting far
worse junk science themselves, I will point that out.
In climate change, there is a political agenda with its
necessary junk science propaganda and alarmist claims.
Wrong science becomes
junk science only when its obvious or easily - determined flaws are ignored and it is then used to advance some special interest.
If you are trying to point out that it is the same kind
of junk science used in AGW climate research....
Unfortunately, opponents of birth control and abortion have effectively
used junk science to undermine access to reproductive health care.
How do we get back all that money we've had taken from us by our governments and spunked on their cronies at Solyndra and BrightSource or thrown casually into grants
for junk science research like «ocean acidification» or squandered on shysters at tainted institutions like NASA, NOAA and the Royal Society or wasted on anti-capitalist bureaucracies like the EPA and the Department of Energy and Climate Change?
«Correlation doesn't prove causation» is a common critical thinking rebuttal to
junk science reporting, that is, when fear - mongers, lazy reporters, and agenda drivers guide the casual reader to infer cause from coincidence.
You try what was seen in an award - winning essay suggestion from the 2008 «Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest,» that such testimony may be ignored because it is unreliable
junk science funded by corporations that's irrelevant in the face of settled science.
Milloy ran a Web site
called Junk Science, joined in time by Climate Audit and Ice Cap and a thousand others, all hammering the same message — ignore global warming.
There is perhaps
more junk science published about endocrine disruptors than any other subject in biology.
[23] The letter describes the Climate Action Report as «largely a compilation and summary of
junk science produced by the Clinton - Gore Administration in order to support their Kyoto agenda,» and calls on Bush to have the report «re-written on the basis of sound science.»
While President Bush's recent public statements seem to indicate that he may also be falling for global warming
junk science so far, he's only for voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as «technology - based solutions.
But crib mattress marketers that play on these fears to sell $ 400 eco options often
peddle junk science — these folks claim «polyurethane foam» and «waterproof covers made of polyvinyl chloride or PVC» are dangerous, cause cancer, etc..
I said that the CRU results should be treated as
junk science because they have refused to release their data and code.
The evidence and the grassroots have for years been consistent about federal overreach, obvious pay - for - play and a regrettable revolving door that recycles corporate puppets of elite donors to experiment on live children using
junk science while ignoring proven educators.
The site isn't actually run by «scientists», it's actually run by Environmental Media Services, which specializes in spreading
environmental junk science on behalf of numerous clients who stand to financially benefit from scare tactics through environmental fear mongering.
I ask that Houghton Mifflin work to make all the revisions necessary to the next edition, to ensure that its coverage of actual climate science, as opposed to anthropogenic global
warming junk science, remains current.
What most frustrates climate sceptics is the persistence of
such junk science in the public and policy debates.
What disturbs him is the fact that it's Exxon giving money to the likes of TASSSC, and Steven J Milloy's
Junk Science website.
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