I ran across this on a bodybuilding web site and thought it explained fairly well why getting your News from talk radio and pundits from FoxNews is like getting your food from the local dump. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " Basically, Steve Milloy [of Fox News] sees himself as a warrior fighting mistruths spread by evil scientists. But if you look at what he debunks, his real criteria for deciding what is "junk science" is not the quality of the work but the political agenda that it might support.
JunkScience.com has this death clock attributing almost 92 million deaths to the EPA's ban on DDT since 1972. If you look at this ban in closer detail, what he's trying to do is actually pretty misleading. The fact is that there is not a ban on using DDT to fight malaria. The EPA only banned DDT from agricultural use, but it can still be used for disease prevention. He's fighting a strawman. For example following the tragic tsunami in 2003, Milloy and others of like mind were calling for the spraying of DDT, yet what he didn't say is that the mosquitoes in that area have evolved to have a resistance to DDT. It doesn't work in that area. The debate goes on and on, with the Milloy camp claiming that, even if Sri Lankan mosquitoes have developed a resistance to DDT, it is still useful for keeping mosquitoes out of houses when the walls are coated with this insecticide. That reasoning doesn't work, however, because India has been using DDT continuously since the 1940's, yet rates of malaria continue to rise. The death clock is completely bogus. Stephen Milloy may look like he is talking big, but in reality he's just spreading the same mistruths he claims to be debunking." -- Dr. John K. Williams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212651 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
