Skeptoid fact check part 1
Category: DDT
The Skeptoid podcast on DDT made heavy use of misinformation from Steve Milloy. As a result it was wrong from beginning to end.
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:08 PM • 113 Comments •
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Did I mention that Steve Milloy lies about everything?
Category: Milloy
Ed Darrell has been working his way through Steve Milloy's 100 things about DDT. See if you can spot what Milloy did in number 10. Here's Milloy: [Rachel Carson wrote] "Quail into whose diet DDT was introduced throughout the breeding...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:22 AM • 20 Comments •
Yes, Steve Milloy does lie about everything
Category: Milloy
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Steve Milloy's new latest scam
Category: Milloy
Kent Hovind has an offer of $250,000 for anyone who can give a scientific proof of evolution. Now Steve Milloy is following in Hovind's footsteps with the Ultimate Global Warming Challenge: $100,000 if you can provide a scientific proof of...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:59 PM • 17 Comments •
Sign the petition asking Fox to fire Steve Milloy
Category: Milloy
Desmogblog have organised a petition asking Fox to fire Steve Milloy. Sign it here. If Desmogblog's reasons aren't enough, consider this: Milloy wrote articles for Fox about how cigarette smoke was not harmful, while taking undisclosed payments from a tobacco...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:54 PM • 9 Comments •
Loathsome People
Category: Milloy
From The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America 19. Steven Milloy Charges: It's a pretty fucked up world in which a falsified memoir of drug addiction can spark widespread outrage, but a lawyer and registered lobbyist posing as a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:06 PM • 15 Comments •
Steve Milloy: the biggest loser
Category: Milloy
A while ago I wrote about Steve Milloys Free Enterprise Action Fund and its dismal performance: "From inception on March 1 of last year through Dec. 31, Free Enterprise Action returned 2.32 percent; the S&P 500 returned 4.72 percent. That's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:20 AM • 14 Comments •
Steve Milloy's latest scam
Category: Milloy
Steve Milloy has made a special appeal to his supporters: I helped launch the Free Enterprise Action Fund (www.FreeEnterpriseActionFund.com), a pioneering mutual fund designed to accomplish two goals for investors: Earn a market-based financial return from investing in the...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:43 PM • 8 Comments •
The Big Shill
Category: Milloy
It's long been public knowledge that Steve Milloy's junkscience site was funded by tobacco companies to attack the science linking cigarette smoke with lung cancer. Last year Mother Jones reported: Industry defenders shelled [Arctic Climate Assessment] study, and, with a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:32 AM • 6 Comments •
Milloy spreads lie
Category: Milloy
Rolling Stone has published a major feature on global warming. Steve Milloy was mentioned as one the chief anti-science guys in the debate, so he has a column in Fox news trotting out all the usual tired old discredited arguments:...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:17 AM • 23 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
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