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Steven Milloy and Junk Science

Roger Bate Steven Milloy (pictured) is an industry lobbyist who has represented American Petroleum Institute, FMC Corp, Fort Howard, International Food Additives Council, and Monsanto. He claims to have written over 500 columns and articles in newspapers and "major online media". He has sought to cast doubt on global warming, ozone depletion, the dangers of DDT, nuclear power, genetically modified (GM) food, asbestos, pesticides and various chemicals using the term junk science.

Milloy popularised the term junk science with a website JunkScience.com where he defines as "faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special and, often, hidden agendas". He claims "social activists, such as the 'food police,' environmental extremists, and gun-control advocates, may use junk science to achieve social and political change" and "government regulators may use junk science to expand their authority and to increase their budgets".

His books include:

Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them (2009) which claims that "The Greens aim to regulate your behavior, downsize your lifestyle, and invade the most intimate aspects of your personal life"
Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams (2001), which labels the science identifying health risks as junk science.
Silencing Science co-written with Michael Gough (1999), portrays EPA science and that associated with global warming, CFCs, cloning and other issues as junk science.
Science Without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research (1995), an attack on public health research.
Science-Based Risk Assessment: A Piece of the Superfund Puzzle (1995)

He has been

an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, which published 3 of his 5 books
an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)
founder and publisher of the JunkScience.com website, which tries to portray any science showing the adverse effects of industrial activity as unsound.
executive director of the front group, The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC), formerly the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition and co-founded by Philip Morris and funded by Philip Morris, Exxon, Procter and Gamble, Dow, 3M and other corporations, which portrayed global warming and the hazards of pesticides and smoking as based on junk science.
director of Science Policy Studies at the National Environmental Policy Institute, a think tank that opposes environmental regulations
head of Free Enterprise Action Institute, funded by ExxonMobil
writes a column on junk science for Fox News
an employee of James Tozzi

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