Eco-extremism

["Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

This article is only about PCBs in salmon, not radiation, but the parallels are obvious. Many of us know Steve Milloy's Junk Science web site and publications (http://www.junkscience.com/), I thought it was interesting that this kind of analysis got national exposure on Fox News.





Eco-Extremism, Not Science, Behind Fishy Salmon Scare, by Steven Milloy



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108570,00.html



Excerpts:



It was gullible media alarmism run amok as even the "scientists" whose much-reported study appeared in the Jan. 9 issue of "Science" plainly acknowledged there was no factual basis for concern. 



We can expect that the media will ignore such facts in favor of hype ? fear-mongering, not level-headedness, attracts readers and viewers.



David Carpenter...is a well-known health-scare hyperventilator who likes to masquerade as an impartial "expert" from the University of Albany's Institute for Health and the Environment.



At least the Pew Charitable Trusts are appropriately named. Like their bogus salmon scare, they stink. 







Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

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