The other day I was Googling for some information on transfats – and came up with the expected hits from the USFDA, academics, and the American Heart Association:
http://www.fda.gov/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
http://www.umm.edu/...
http://www.americanheart.org/...
But I also found this from Faux News:
http://www.foxnews.com/...
"TRANS FAT LAWSUIT AGAINST KFC BASED ON THIN SCIENCE"
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The other day I was Googling for some information on transfats – and came up with the expected hits from the USFDA, academics, and the American Heart Association:
http://www.fda.gov/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
http://www.umm.edu/...
http://www.americanheart.org/...
But I also found this from Faux News:
http://www.foxnews.com/...
"TRANS FAT LAWSUIT AGAINST KFC BASED ON THIN SCIENCE"
They are kind enough to credit their source:
"Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com, CSRWatch.com. He is a junk science expert, an advocate of free enterprise and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute."
Well the credits are quite interesting. Because it turns out that Milloy is not a junk science expert (except in his own mind). He has no scientific degree and no refereed scientific papers. He is connected with the wingnut CATO Institute and uses the aptly named junkscience.com website to spread disinformation for CATOS’s corporate sponsors. So for example you can fine out there that
• KFC’s transfat fried chicken is no problem
• Global warming is a myth
• It’s OK to spray folks houses with DDT
• Better to be quiet that warn about at risk fat kids
• Etc. etc. etc.
Suffice it to say if you want some references for corporate antiscience you will likely find it here.