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"Since then and the setting up of his junk science website, he has attacked any science that endeavours to criticise industry.45 In 1998, in what he called a 'special' report on his web page, Milloy came out in defence of the pharmaceutical companies over HRT. After singing the praises of hormone replacement, he rounded on the 'junk science mobsters' who were using circumstantial evidence to scare women into thinking that HRT can cause breast cancer. Why, asks Milloy, should critics try to stir up trouble over a therapy that has been used successfully for 55 years?" - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"The attempts of FDA managers to cause Devine to refrain from representing Graham, by calling into question Graham's credibility and reliability and labeling Graham's evaluations "junk science," failed.118 Devine pressed for evidence of Graham's alleged ineptitude and nothing persuasive was forthcoming, thus failing to shake Devine's confidence in Graham. Ketek On February 13, 2007, FDA medical reviewer Dr. David B. Ross testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"They use phony scientists who create junk science. These are Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s words. Both Scarborough and Kennedy go on to say that this is the same thing that happened in big tobacco and big oil, and regarding global warming. Both Kennedy and Scarborough state that the idea that this is safe is "junk science." They state that it is fraudulent. You are reading this right. Both Kennedy and Scarborough are stating what I had been stating for years. That the tobacco industry, the oil industry, and the pharmaceutical industry all do the same thing." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"In contrast, True Ott, who has a PhD in nutrition, claims that water alkalin-izers or ionizers are based on junk science. When my husband and I developed arthritis from using one, we called him after noticing he had written about this topic. He explained, "These machines strip electrons from the contaminants themselves, and this creates hydroxyl ions which are harmful free radicals. The OH ions attack cells and stimulate adrenaline, which is why there is a short-term buzz, but in the long run it creates a condition that breeds cancer. It can also cause arthritis." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"I thought he was reading junk science. I thought he was in denial. Because I'm a medical provider, I said, we have to look at medically based research." But even the scientific literature would not give them a clear sense of the true risks of the class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. Only a handful of papers, half a dozen at most, reported an association between SSRIs and the condition known as akathisia: the extreme agitation, sense of unease, and feeling of wanting to jump out of one's skin that Justin described in the days before his death." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The group routinely uses scare tactics justified by 'junk science' and media theatrics as part of their ceaseless campaign for government regulation of your personal food choices."9 In dismissing CSPI's work as media driven and reliant upon "junk science" (a favorite derisive term for any research that inconveniently goes against corporate interests), CCF's aim is to scare people into believing that the group is trying to take away their God-given right to eat whatever they want." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Galson, denigrated Graham's evaluation, referring to it as "junk science." Galson also sent an email to the editor of The Lancet, a prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journal, calling into question Graham's "integrity."109 Certain FDA managers began a general campaign to discredit Graham and control the negative publicity word of the heart attack risk was creating. In early August of 2004, Dr. Graham presented to his FDA supervisors a large epidemiologic study he had performed on Vioxx with Kaiser Permanente in California." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Both Kennedy and Scarborough state that the idea that this is safe is "junk science." They state that it is fraudulent. You are reading this right. Both Kennedy and Scarborough are stating what I had been stating for years. That the tobacco industry, the oil industry, and the pharmaceutical industry all do the same thing. They create their own fake and fraudulent studies. They pay off government politicians to perpetuate lies. They use the news media to make us believe that these things are safe, when in fact they're not safe, and in fact are causing disease." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"In reality the Danish Adoption Study is junk science and does not prove schizophrenia is inheritable at all. But the study has been cited as the study so many times by so many textbooks and articles that it is hard even to believe that it is a hugely flawed study. That helps explain the strong reaction of one psychiatrist who researched and wrote about the Danish study: When I located the original 1975 summary report on the Danish study by Kety and his colleagues in the book Genetic Research in Psychiatry, I was shocked by what I found." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"If ADHD was meant as a way merely to identify a set of behaviors with no inference of it being a neurological abnormality, that would be one thing (and still an insult to children), but the insistence that it exists in the same physical and provable realm as real diseases is a perversion of science, without even enough credibility to rise to the level of pseudo science or junk science. It is an outright lie. [8] What happened to Matthew Smith and his parents is not an isolated case." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"And the number-one issue on its junk science hit list is obesity. There is a notable split within the food industry on the question of whether or not to dispute obesity science directly. Most food companies have shied away from explicitly disavowing the existence of an obesity epidemic (probably out of an awareness of how the denial tack backfired on Big Tobacco). Instead, some have formed advisory bodies to "study" the matter. Food manufacturers are leaving the task of dismissing the obesity issue altogether to trade associations and front groups like CCF." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "For example, bona fide research that soda is linked to obesity is often dismissed by soda-industry lobbyists as "junk science." Licensing: When owners of certain copyrights sell their rights to other companies. For example, when Disney sells a license to McDonald's to market movie-related toys. Local control: The excuse used by multinational companies such as Coca-Cola for why it opposes state legislation to get soda out of schools. If you hear the argument for local control, ask who is making the argument and what interests they represent." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Call it junk science, biased or totally fraudulent medical reporting, and/or a broken teaching system—these professionals operate from flawed premises. They are content to treat diseases (and consequently enrich the pharmaceuticals), not to search for cures. Many doctors know that new drugs approved by the FDA often result from compromised medical research. Bought-and-paid-for research, endorsed by once-esteemed medical publications, does not offer doctors trustworthy information worthy of use in patient care." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Mass media: All the pro-drug propaganda that's fit to print In doing this, the media also lends credibility to what I call junk science, or bad medicine. Whenever there is a study that has a positive result for drug companies, such as some new drug achieving a so-called success rate in terms of reducing inflammation or depression, magazines, cable news stations and newspapers jump all over it and run headline stories about the miracle cures promised by the new drug. What they don't report on is all the studies that were failures, because the drug company hid those." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "As a result, they lend credibility to a junk science that is perhaps better described as fraudulent science. It's all based on distorted science This is the kind of science that has allowed drug companies to sell dangerous drugs and get them approved by the FDA over and over again for the past 30 years. The clinical trials for these drugs are highly distorted. They are fraudulently designed. People who show negative results are eliminated from the trials so their results don't show up in the study." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"In dismissing CSPI's work as media driven and reliant upon "junk science" (a favorite derisive term for any research that inconveniently goes against corporate interests), CCF's aim is to scare people into believing that the group is trying to take away their God-given right to eat whatever they want. I have been closely following CSPI for many years, and have found that, unlike some other groups, CSPI backs up every claim it makes and is actually quite cautious about its scientific conclusions. Does CSPI use the media effectively? Absolutely." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"As a member of the administration, Davis has unlimited access to the media while her position at the Health and Human Services (HHS) [department] helps validate her "junk science." Davis is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at each of the upcoming WEDO [the Women's Environment and Development Organization—an international group headed by Bella Abzug] breast cancer conferences.9 The PR flacks made me out to be a deluded zealot. I noted with some amusement that their memo had the same date as an article I'd written with H." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"In 1996, ABC television produced a programme entitled Junk Science; the presenter was John Stossel. Stossel already had a name for being pro-industry, having reported on and promoted food irradiation and pesticides while downplaying the dangers of asbestos and electromagnetic fields. Junk Science became infamous because it simply presented the chemical industry point of view on clinical ecology and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. In fact junk science was very similar to The Allergy Business, another programme critical of clinical ecology made in England for World in Action." - Martin J. Walker, Skewed: Psychiatric Hegemony and and the Manufacture of Mental Illness in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Gulf War Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. (Get the book.)

"After singing the praises of hormone replacement, he rounded on the 'junk science mobsters' who were using circumstantial evidence to scare women into thinking that HRT can cause breast cancer. Why, asks Milloy, should critics try to stir up trouble over a therapy that has been used successfully for 55 years? Simple, Milloy answers himself, pharmaceutical companies are trying to take advantage of the breast cancer scare to sell their own brands of HRT." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"I thought he was reading junk science. I thought he was in denial. Because I'm a medical provider, I said, we have to look at medically based research." But even the scientific literature would not give them a clear sense of the true risks of the class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. Only a handful of papers, half a dozen at most, reported an association between SSRIs and the condition known as akathisia: the extreme agitation, sense of unease, and feeling of wanting to jump out of one's skin that Justin described in the days before his death." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In a society that truly honored health freedom, even if a parent believed that prayer alone was the best medicine for cancer, then that parent should be allowed to practice that system of medicine and avoid conventional cancer treatments, which are themselves highly toxic and largely based on junk science. Under a system of health freedom, we would be able to choose natural treatments, including Ayurvedic medicine, Western herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, mind-body medicine, energy medicine, or any other system of medicine that we believed would be helpful to us." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "Big Pharma's trespasses into scientific fraud go way beyond mere junk science. The fraudulent trials, hiding of evidence, cherry-picking of studies, and intimidating critics all point to a policy of succeeding in the marketplace at all costs while invoking "science" as a convenient defense. Because of the high-brow language used by drug companies and their researchers—the medical lingo, the statistical representations, and the masterful doublespeak—drug companies operate with an aura of scientific-sounding credibility when in fact they are merely spouting drug-hyping mumbo jumbo." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "But the advertisements, which were legalized under the irrational justification that they would only provide "public education" and not actually promote such drugs, began making all sorts of junk science claims and associations that simply were not true. In 2004, a study carried out by the Institute of Evidence-Based Medicine in Germany found that an astonishing 94 percent of the statements contained in promotional literature sent to doctors by drug companies had no basis in scientific fact." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "It's all a self-reinforcing orgy of junk science, disease marketing, and drug pushing, with an inexcusable disregard for nutrition and disease prevention. When you agree to believe something communicated to you by an individual or organization, it's important to understand the difference between those who act with obvious conflicts of interest and those who have only altruistic motives. That's why I've placed myself in a position of receiving absolutely no financial gain from this book or the products mentioned in it." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"This is not only junk science at its worst, but reveals the sloppy intellectual processes going on these days in medical science... "(3) The Polypill creators appear to be completely blind to the fact that neither statins nor aspirin have ever been shown to lower mortality in the elderly, women and non-diabetic individuals free of cardiovascular disease. They are evidently unaware that the reported incidence of side effects in carefully screened clinical trial participants with these drugs is far lower than that noted among the general population." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "The claim that shunning a nutrient-packed food like meat contributes to an increase in life span, through some bizarre twist of biochemistry, is a shameless exercise in junk science. It should also be pointed out that studies examining meat-eaters who follow healthier-than-usual lifestyles have revealed mortality rates similar to or superior to those seen in the aforementioned vegetarian studies." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"I regard the practice as the epitome of junk science and refuse to participate in it. In the first place, there is no objective test for mental illness, as there is for melanoma or pneumonia. What psychiatrists pretentiously call an "examination" is a conversation with the subject and observation of his behavior. The psychiatrist's conclusion is his opinion about the subject's mental state at the time of the examination." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"They use junk science, new science, ghostwritten science, and Madison Avenue science to promote their agenda of corporate profitability. Go ask your corporate advertisers why maintenance drugs are more important than a cure. Ask them why they spend more on advertising than they do on research and development. Ask them why they needed to be subsidized by us —the people (government)—to expend the effort necessary to seek new antibiotics and vaccines that may be required to deal with terrorism. This is the most profitable corporate industry in the U.S." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"When industry gets really scared they debunk any negative claim as being "junk science." The estrogenic properties of bisphenol-A (BPA) was known as early as 1936, yet children now have their teeth coated with plastic containing BPA. The ADA denies any problem and goes on coating teeth. Food and drink cans are lined with it. Some plasfic baby bottles contain it and other plasticizers." - Michael Friedman, ND, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Endocrinology (Get the book.)

"Shari Lieberman, a certified nutrition specialist and author of The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book, calls them "junk science." She says, "Show me where the amount of picolinate used in those hamster cell studies has any bearing whatsoever on what a human being would consume if they took chromium picolinate in the ranges we're recommending." Dr. C. Leigh Broadhurst, who worked with Dr. Richard Anderson on the development of chromium picolinate at the USDA, agrees. Others are more cautious. "I'm about 99.9 percent sure that chromium picolinate is safe," says Dr. Harry Preuss. " - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

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