Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006
FoxNews ^ | 12/15/6 | Steven Milloy

A “top 10” list that may make you think that 1007, rather than 2007, is just around the corner.

1. Some Real Inconvenient Truth. Gore whipped the world into a global warming frenzy. I personally asked Mr. Gore to help arrange a debate. He declined (twice).

2. Board of Health or Bored of Science? NYC’s Board of Health banned restaurants from serving foods cooked with vegetable oils containing transfats. It mattered little to the Board that the FDA classifies trans fats as “generally recognized as safe.”

3. What Hurricane Season? The NOAA predicted a 5% chance of a below-normal hurricane season. Wrong.

4. Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes? It took 30 years, tens of millions of lives lost, and billions sickened, but the WHO finally ended its ban on DDT.

5. Cosmic ray study fails to penetrate lead-lined media. Researchers provided evidence that just 5 years of cosmic ray activity can have 85 percent of the effect on the Earth’s climate as 200 years of manmade carbon dioxide emissions.

6. Stem cell fraud and futility.

7. Low-fat diet myth busted. The widely-held 30-year old notion that low-fat diets are good for your health went “poof” this year.

8. Woodpecker Racket. A reported sighting by an anti-development group of the thought-to-be-extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker [was debunked]. Environmental groups used the “sighting” to convince a judge to stop a $320,000,000 Army Corps of Engineers irrigation project.

9. Food police indict SpongeBob Squarepants. Several anti-fun food activist groups sued Nickelodeon and Kellogg for using cartoon characters to advertise food products

10. California’s Not-so-deadly Air. Bill Clinton and Julia Roberts stumped for California’s Proposition 87 and claimed that California’s air is the “worst in the nation” . But data indicate that California’s public health is better than states which meet federal air quality standards.

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