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Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense against Health Scares and Scams Hardcover – January 1, 2001

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This book is a simple, easy-to-read guide to debunking health scares and scams before you get hurt.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cato Institute (January 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1930865120
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1930865129
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.22 x 0.77 x 9.28 inches

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Ralph White

Another Triumph in the Civil War Against Science

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2005

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Steven Milloy is a journalist, and pundit whose principled stand on behalf of scientific logic benefits all of us. He stands side by side with Stephen Jay Gould and Michael Schermer in debunking the outrageous claims of pseudo science. Milloy attempts to provide a framework to evaluate the nonsensical claims made by individuals and organizations with agendas which are independent of the facts. It is this framework he calls "junk science judo." Actually what he provides us is the kind of suspicious phraseology and statistical trickery often employed by scammers. In most cases it would take a thorough review of the claimants' research techniques and statistical interpretation to spot the scam. We come away suspicious of almost any claim. All in all, though, Milloy is readable and he is right. Don't miss his column, "Junk Science," on the Opinion page of FoxNews.com.

Postscript: With the passage of time I've become aware of a blind spot in Milloy's vision. It doesn't appear in this book, but it does repeatedly in his columns and website. He denies global warming, which is reliably documented by science. Where junk science enters the debate is in the extent of human causality. To date there is no credible evidence for human causality; it is an issue pressed by political populists and our competitors in global trade. Global warming is good science; human causality is junk science. Science shows that if humans disappeared from the Earth, global warming would continue, and likely continue to accelerate. Milloy is so incensed by the assertion of human causality that he denies warming altogether. In his acceptance of the politicization of the debate, he plays into the hands of his adversaries. His willingness to distort facts in support of this cause unnecessarily introduces doubt about his objecivity in other issues.

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Gary Griffiths

A Dose of Common Sense

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2004

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Steven Milloy's "Junk Science Judo", the complement to Milloy's website, junkscience.com, is an easy-to-read, common sense tutorial illuminating and debunking the steady stream of health scares and scams spewing from activists, lobbyists, industry, and government on a daily basis. Aided by television and print media interested more in attracting audiences than in reporting fact, Milloy exposes the less-than-pure motives behind the so-called science, offering a layman's explanation of the tools, techniques, and statistical analysis to determine fact from fraud, and to draw logical conclusions independent of the hype. While some of the chapters discussing the actual statistical technique may run a bit dry, for the most part this is a quick and entertaining read. In addition to taking on controversial topics like DDT, PCBs, and dioxin, Milloy debunks popular environmental mega myths including Agent Orange, Love Canal, Cancer Clusters, Three Mile Island, and others. While you may have always believed the "science" behind much today's highly publicized health risks suspect, "Junk Science Judo" will arm you with the facts behind the politics, and some common sense to counter the hysteria.

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Jorge Brown Segui

Junk Science is all over the press, governments and general public

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 29, 2013

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Today at the Bulletin, a newspaper from the Gold Coast, Australia you can read: Erectile problems signal heart desease!
Is it appealing or not?
So much isn't it?
Therefore the article has accomplished its purpose that is only to increase the ratings===>increase revenue!
Period.
The blunt true is that does not matter if this is real or not. Nobody cares about the misinformation and the damage to the society.
It is an everyday bombardment on every newspaper you read. Health and junk science is there to rise the attention of uneducated people.
Unfortunately this status quo is prevailing in the press worldwide.
Junk Science Judo by Steven J. Milloy is a must and a real jewell amidst so much fat information and misleading junk science publicized nowadays.
I give it a 5 star rate.
Jorge Brown Segui

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Robert H. Boyer

Junk Science Judo

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2006

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If you are unaware that most of what is broadcast as fact is really only Theoretic because even when a scientific study has been done but not repilicated it is still only someone's theory, this book will be an eye opener. As another author has said, "There are statistics, statistic and damned lies." On the other hand if you are not "up" for having your pet theory debunked as junk science better not read this book.

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Innoculate yourself against Charlatanry!

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Good, well written documentation about phony and insubstantial scares generated by charlatans and picked up by a gullible press and passed on as fact to the unsuspecting public. Everyone should read the sections on statistics to understand the results of experiments that prove nothing, yet are hyped as scientific proof of dangers of one kind or another.

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Lots of nonsense out there.

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