Paul Ehrlich made me a skeptic. Not about climate change, but skeptical of over-the-top science activists and their imminent doomsday predictions. Paul Ehrlich made me a skeptic of all true-believers. The article below was the start of that because it made me a true believer, something I later learned to be ashamed of. But, […]
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Diabetes drug found in freshwater is a potential endocrine disruptor What Do We Really Know About Roundup Weed Killer? Weed Killer In Round Up: Long Cleared, Now Doubted Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal The hotly contested link between science denial and conspiracy theories Study Links Widely Used Pesticides to […]
What is Peer Review And How It Can Go Wrong?
Part 1 of a 4-Part Series View Part 2 here: Peer Review, Reproducibility: How To Separate Good Science From Sketchy Tales 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 paraphrase Winston Churchill, scientific peer […]
INDEX: Why You Can’t Trust Government Science
Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” “Good Laboratory Practices (GLP):” Obsolete Regulatory Science That Jeopardizes Public Health GLP: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science Old Ideas, Old Science Cripple Federal Regulation Federal Protocols Offer Many Opportunities To Bias Science Secret Chemicals: What The Government Won’t Tell You, Can Kill Private Science For Hire: […]
Private Science For Hire: Poster Children For Un-trustworthy Science
Part 4 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 3 here: Bad Science Thrives When Corporations & Government Regulators Deny Peer Review More articles on this topic […]
Scientific Fraud: Laundering Money & People
This article is one in a series. For the other articles, please see: INDEX: “Why You Can’t Trust Government Science” Fraud and deception contaminate a substantial percentage of scientific papers. As the details below illustrate, even many of the best peer-reviewed journals are victimized by companies and private labs that: Deliberately conceal conflicts of […]
Just Because The FDA Says Something’s Safe Doesn’t Mean It Is
This article is a stub for work in progress and is included here to offer readers a view of a few of the links describing a few of the FDA’s numerous failures. The roots of those failures have a bearing on other articles on Stealth Syndromes. This article is one in a series. For the […]
Science Funding: Sponsors Get The Results They Pay For
This article is a stub for work in progress and is included here to offer readers a view of many of the links dealing with funding abuses which have a bearing on other articles on this web site. This piece will be fleshed out as resources allow. This article is one in a series. For […]
Old Ideas, Old Science Cripple Federal Regulation
This article is one in a series. For the other articles, please see: INDEX: “Why You Can’t Trust Government Science” See also this article from the NIH publication, Environmental Health Perspectives: Why Public Health Agencies Cannot Depend on Good Laboratory Practices as a Criterion for Selecting Data Once a scientific concept becomes entrenched, it has […]
Federal Protocols Offer Many Opportunities To Bias Science
This article is one in a series. For the other articles, please see: INDEX: “Why You Can’t Trust Government Science” This article is continued from: Old Ideas, Old Science Cripple Federal Regulation Rigid Lab Protocols Encourage Under-Reporting Of Adverse Effects The Boston University study notes that, “The main means of controlling the quality of […]