[Cross posted to LewisPerdue.Com and WineIndustryInsight.Com and for good reason …. read on] My current Twitter followers know me for my book writing Lewis Perdue.com (@lewisperdue) or because I’m the editor/publisher of Wine Industry Insight (@Vinoindustry). I’ve been meaning to let followers know about the @lewisperdue handle, but I’ve been lazy, partly because people in […]
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How Stealth Corporate Influence Corrupts Science
The Stealth Syndromes project relies primarily on original source information that the two founders gather from peer-reviewed scientific publications or from their own research. We do not usually rely on articles in the popular media because they tend to be incomplete, flawed, badly sourced, and (all too often) biased in obvious ways. The following piece, […]
Toxic Science: Fiddling Facts For Profit & Legal Leverage
First in a three-part series This series, verified by federal court documents, reveals the covert, step-by-step, and often unethical methods used by corporate giant Eastman Chemical (NYSE: EMN) to create incomplete, questionable and sometimes tortured science in order to mislead consumers, regulators, its customers and use as evidence in a lawsuit designed to drive a […]
Predictable Outcomes: How To Skew Experiment Design To Produce Predictable Results
Second in a three-part series Part 1: Toxic Science: Fiddling Facts For Profit & Legal Leverage Part 3: Covertly Stretching “Peer Review” Until It Breaks Sidebar: Hoodwinking Whole Foods, Stonewalling Thermos Note: Eastman Chemical is also the manufacturer of MCHM, the chemical in the huge West Virginia river pollution incident. The company has been accused […]
Covertly Stretching “Peer Review” Until It Breaks
By Lewis Perdue on July 21, 2014 in Courts & Science, Why You Can’t Trust Federal & Corporate “Science”
Part 2 of a 4-Part Series View Part 1 here: What is Peer Review And How It Can Go Wrong? View Part 3 here: Bad Science Thrives When Corporations & Government Regulators Deny Peer Review View Part 4 here: Private Science For Hire: Poster Children For Un-trustworthy Science To a non-scientist, a study is a […]
Lying By Omission: Hoodwinking Whole Foods, Stonewalling Thermos
This sidebar is designed to be read in context with the article series. Please refer to the following installments should you need further information or explanation. Part 1: Toxic Science: Fiddling Facts For Profit & Legal Leverage Part 2: How-To Skew Experiment Design To Produce Predictable Results Part 3: Covertly Stretching “Peer Review” Until It […]
BPA Shown to Increase Breast Cancer Spread & Interfere with Treatment
Last week at the annual joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and the Endocrine Society of Chicago, a team from Duke University in North Carolina presented an abstract indicating that Bisphenol-A (BPA) is linked to the speed of progression of inflammatory breast cancer as well as rendering the treatment for the cancer less […]
Low-Dose BPA Paper in Toxicological Sciences Fatally Flawed & Must Be Retracted. Also Raises Doubts About Integrity Of Federal Lab Animal Facility
See also: Flaws in design, execution and interpretation limit CLARITY‐BPA’s value for risk assessments of bisphenol A By Lewis Perdue and Rebecca L. Yeamans NOTE: An earlier version of this paper originally appeared on nano-active.com on Feb., 24, 2014. This version is enormously expanded to address peer-review suggestions from multiple prominent researchers. Those who helped […]
Bad Science Thrives When Corporations & Government Regulators Deny Peer Review
Part 3 of a 4-Part Series View Part 1 here: What is Peer Review And How It Can Go Wrong? View Part 2 here: Peer Review, Reproducibility: How To Separate Good Science From Sketchy Tales View Part 4 here: Private Science For Hire: Poster Children For Un-trustworthy Science One massive, gaping hole in American scientific […]
Peer Review, Reproducibility: How To Separate Good Science From Sketchy Tales
Part 2 of a 4-Part Series View Part 1 here: What is Peer Review And How It Can Go Wrong? View Part 3 here: Bad Science Thrives When Corporations & Government Regulators Deny Peer Review View Part 4 here: Private Science For Hire: Poster Children For Un-trustworthy Science To a non-scientist, a study is a […]