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Junk Science Week: Lipophobia and the bad science diet

How a now-discredited diet theory became a national mania By Harvey Levenstein The most striking thing about North America’s fear of food is how markedly ideas about food’s healthfulness have changed...

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Junk Science Week: How to create ­science consensus

New book recounts mass ­official craziness in policymaking By Terence Corcoran Right in the opening chapter of Harvey Levenstein’s entertaining and eye-opening book, Fear of Food: A History of Why We...

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Terence Corcoran: Welcome to Junk Science Week 2012

Welcome to our 14th annual Junk Science Week, a five-day science fair extravaganza dedicated to exposing the scientists, NGOs, activists, politicians, journalists, media outlets, cranks and quacks who...

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Junk Science Week: CT scans are the real risk, not plastics

The Institute of Medicine in the U.S. recently released its comprehensive review of environmental causes and risk factors for breast cancer. This should be news: The report, Environmental Causes of...

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Junk Science Week: Artificial science

Following New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s war on sugared beverages, news media seem to have sugar on the brain. An article in Tuesday’s New York Times ostensibly discusses the options involved in...

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Junk Science Week: Too much to swallow

N.Y.’s ban on big sugary drinks lacks evidence By Gilbert Ross New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have proposed “a ban too far,” as his one-time friends at The New York Times put it, when on May 31...

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Junk Science Week: 2052? More like 2084

By Peter Foster Last October, at a conference in Ottawa, systems-management guru Dennis Meadows declared from the podium that it was already “too late for sustainable development.” This would surely...

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Junk Science Week: Climate models fail reality test

Computer models utterly fail to predict climate changes in regions A few years ago a biologist I know looked at how climate change might affect the spread of a particular invasive insect species. He...

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Junk Science Week: The greenest bags are plastic

From “Life-cycle assessment of supermarket carrier bags,” U.K. Environment Agency, 2011. Conclusions related to individual carrier bags The comparisons include the secondary reuse of 40% of lightweight...

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Junk Science Week: Save the plastic bag

Find the plastic bags in the city of Toronto’s Large Litter Category Item Count, 2006 Misc. paper 806 Misc. plastic 474 No brand name towels/­napkins/serviettes 461 Printed material (newspapers,...

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Junk Science Week: Money corrupts peer-review process

Government cash ­influences the process The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has referred to its work as the gold standard, based on its oft-made claim that it only surveys...

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Junk Science Week: Pay equity ‘scientism’

CUPE aims to expand the junk science of comparing wages The front page of Tuesday’s National Post brought rare and heartening news of a defeat in Ontario Superior Court for what, in a perversion of...

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Junk Science Week: Junk news by rubber ducky

From CTV News, May 16, 2012: Marcia MacMillan (anchor, CTV News) A recently released study sounds the alarm over Triclosan. It’s an ingredient in use in all sorts of cosmetics and it’s designed to...

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FP Letters to the Editor: Junk attitudes toward women

Re: “Pay equity ‘scientism,’ ” William Watson, Junk Science Week, June 15 The millions of Canadian women being paid less than men doing work of equal value share little of William Watson’s faith in...

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