Steven Milloy
Steven Milloy is a biostatistician, lawyer, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and publisher of JunkScience.com where the motto is: "All the junk that's fit to debunk". Milloy holds a B.A. in Natural Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Health Sciences in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Steven Milloy's most recent book is Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them.
Before that, Steven Milloy wrote the much talked-about book, Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares & Scams
Congress Overlooks Stem Cell Fraud and Futility
The Senate is preparing to vote this summer on a bill restoring funding to embryonic stem cell research. It’s a situation that should make you wonder whether our elected representatives pay any attention at...
What’s Your Real ‘Carbon Footprint’?
What’s your carbon footprint? If you’ve tried to find out what that means, chances are you’ve only gotten half the story.
The notion of a personal “carbon footprint” was created by global warming alarmists...
DDT: A Weapon of Mass Survival
The U.S. Government has finally begun to reverse policy on the insecticide DDT. Let’s hope that this policy shift represents the beginning of the end of what can only be called a crime against...
‘Green’ Politicians Add to Gas Price Woes
Amid the race between politicians to capitalize on consumer anger at high gas prices, at least one member of Congress, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., expressed a much-needed perspective on the problem—these same politicians own...
The Greenhouse Myth
Al Gore’s global warming documentary hits theaters on May 28. Entitled, “An Inconvenient Truth,” the film purports to make the case for concern over manmade emissions of greenhouse gases.
Meanwhile at JunkScience.com, we’ve produced...
Twenty Years After Chernobyl
April 26 marks the 20th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Anti-nuclear activists are still trying to turn Chernobyl into a bigger disaster than it really was.
Although the Number...
Top Ten Junk Science Stories of the Past Decade
My web site JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights 10 big junk science stories of the last 10 years. In no particular order, they...
Senate Sets Up Lopsided Global Warming ‘Debate’
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will kick off a legislative effort to address global warming next week.
Considering the agenda and witnesses scheduled to testify at the committee’s so-called “Bipartisan Climate Conference,”...
Ford’s Appeasement Backfires
Environmental activists took a whack this week at Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford in a full-page ad in the New York Times.
Bill Ford ought to be embarrassed — not because the enviros...
Hot Air Hysteria
Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are at record highs according to a new report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. The implication is that manmade greenhouse gas emissions and therefore, global warming, are spiraling...
EPA Whips Up Air Pollution Scare
The air pollution scare industry is at it again—in a very timely manner to help the Environmental Protection Agency impose more dubious regulations on us.
“When the air is filled with increased levels of...
No Beef in Meat Packaging Controversy
Yet another potential food scare is being manufactured out of thin air—- or rather out of carbon monoxide.
Last November, with little fanfare, Michigan-based Kalsec, Inc. petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban...
Weak Energy Week
This has been “Energy Week” for President Bush as he barnstormed around the country in follow-up to his State of the Union message that we need to break our so-called “addiction” to oil.
But...
Kyoto’s Quiet Anniversary
Global warming alarmists marked the Kyoto Protocol’s first anniversary in subdued fashion this week. The treaty so far has been a failure and its future doesn’t appear much brighter.
As tallied up at JunkScience.com...
Low-Fat Diet Myth Busted
The widely-believed notion that low-fat diets are good for your health went “poof” this week — although the busting of that myth shouldn’t be news to regular readers of this column.
Low-fat diets didn’t...
