RE: Milloy's national exposure

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@yahoo.com>]

What is his scientific field of expertise?  I thought

biostatistics was a field of mathematics.  



Of course, if you have a policitical agenda, any

publication or research finding you disagree with is

"junk science."  Particularly when no one will refrute

your charges.



--- "Dukelow, James S Jr" <jim.dukelow@PNL.GOV> wrote:

> 

> Milloy works for Fox News and is a frequent

> contributor to the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages

> because his writing conforms nicely to the political

> agenda of those organization.  Milloy, an Adjunct

> Scholar at the Cato Institute, is a lawyer with a

> Master's degree from Johns Hopkins in Biostatistics.

>  He writes knowledgably, although not always

> accurately, about epidemiology, but frequently

> writes about science policy issues well outside his

> apparent areas of scientific expertise.

> 

> Best regards.

> 

> Jim Dukelow

> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

> Richland, WA

> jim.dukelow@pnl.gov

> 

> These comments are mine and have not been reviewed

> and/or approved by my management or by the U.S.

> Department of Energy.

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Stabin, Michael

> [mailto:michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu]

> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 7:03 AM

> To: Radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: Eco-extremism

> 

> 

> 

> 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.

> 

> . . .



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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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