05-11-2007, 10:14 PM
[quote spearmint]Here is what I want you to read but you won't. Too much text and not PC.
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
Well despite you saying that people wouldn't read it, I did. Of course being someone who wishes to know as much detail as possible before making up my mind I read even further. This was a good read:
"Secondhand Smoke
In 1993, Milloy dismissed an Environmental Protection Agency report linking secondhand tobacco smoke to cancer as "a joke". When the British Medical Journal published a similar study in 1997, Milloy said, "it remains a joke today." When another researcher published a study linking secondhand smoke to cancer, Milloy wrote that she, "…must have pictures of journal editors in compromising positions with farm animals. How else can you explain her studies seeing the light of day?" While at FoxNews.com, Milloy continued to attack research on the harms of secondhand smoke.
During the time that Milloy was attacking the credibility of secondhand-smoke research, his junkscience.com website was receiving editorial oversight and content directly from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Milloy's supposedly independent organization TASSC was funded and coordinated by Philip Morris with the goal of "utilizing TASSC as a tool in targeted legislative battles." A confidential 1994 Philip Morris memo listed Milloy's organization under "PM Tools to Affect Legislative Decisions". Milloy himself was listed on Philip Morris' payroll, being budgeted over $180,000 in payments in the years 2000 and 2001."
I have to admit that I have difficulty believing that what Milloy says and writes is unbiased.
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
Well despite you saying that people wouldn't read it, I did. Of course being someone who wishes to know as much detail as possible before making up my mind I read even further. This was a good read:
"Secondhand Smoke
In 1993, Milloy dismissed an Environmental Protection Agency report linking secondhand tobacco smoke to cancer as "a joke". When the British Medical Journal published a similar study in 1997, Milloy said, "it remains a joke today." When another researcher published a study linking secondhand smoke to cancer, Milloy wrote that she, "…must have pictures of journal editors in compromising positions with farm animals. How else can you explain her studies seeing the light of day?" While at FoxNews.com, Milloy continued to attack research on the harms of secondhand smoke.
During the time that Milloy was attacking the credibility of secondhand-smoke research, his junkscience.com website was receiving editorial oversight and content directly from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Milloy's supposedly independent organization TASSC was funded and coordinated by Philip Morris with the goal of "utilizing TASSC as a tool in targeted legislative battles." A confidential 1994 Philip Morris memo listed Milloy's organization under "PM Tools to Affect Legislative Decisions". Milloy himself was listed on Philip Morris' payroll, being budgeted over $180,000 in payments in the years 2000 and 2001."
I have to admit that I have difficulty believing that what Milloy says and writes is unbiased.