Junk Science
   [The corporate attack on science]    
INDEX

    How the corporations attacked legitimate science using science-for-sale practitioners.


Biographies of junk-science entrepreneurs

  • Dr George Carlo [See outline]

    George Carlo is an extraordinary example of how the anti-science system operates in the USA. THIS is virtually an industry in its own right today, and it is based largely in Washington DC. This location gives science-for-sale operators (and the lobbyist/PR people they work for) direct access to Congress.

    Carlo and others in the science-for-sale business work for many different poisoning & polluting (p&p) industries over their life-times, so they often lead trails of evidence which make for fascinating reading. Behind them they also leave trails of pseudo-organisations, since this is stock-in-trade for the American lobbyist (and increasingly in other countries).

    This is just a preliminary look at George Carlo. Most of the material needs updating, and full new biography is in preparation.

    Some Friends and Other Activities

  • Stephen J Milloy ("The Junk-man") [See outline]

    Steve Milloy is well-known to Americans as the great "junk-science debunker" via regular appearances on Fox TV programs, and also on Fox Radio. He has been actively promoted to celebrity-status by many parts of the News Ltd. empire -- quite possibly because the company is controlled by Rupert Murdoch who is a director of Philip Morris. Until recently, News Ltd also had three of the top Philip Morris executives on its own board, and some also had positions on various subsidiary (BSkyB) boards. Murdoch was also a director for many years of the tobacco-funded Cato Institute who warehoused Steve Milloy (as its 'adjunct scholar') at one time, and financed him to co-write and publish a 'Science under Seige' book with dioxin denier Michael Gough.

    Milloy is well known around the world for his Junk-science.com web site, which cleverly mixes real attacks on poor science with corporate-funded attacks on good science. He has about a dozen other similar web-sites on a rough count, and he also runs an operation called Issues-net that is organised globally through PR company APCO and is parent Grey/CGI.

    THIS MATERIAL HASN'T BEEN UPDATED FOR FIVE YEARS.
    IT IS IN PROGRESS.

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