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Junk Science: It’s The Law
by Steven Milloy and Michael Gough August 25, 1997, Investor’s Business Daily Bad science comes. Bad science goes. That’s the great thing about science. It’s only as permanent as it is sound. But what...
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Earth to Harvard Med faculty: DES is not an ‘endocrine disrupter’
A commentary in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine spotlights how easy it is to forget basic scientific principles even when you’re on the Harvard Medical School faculty. In “The Long-Term...
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Indoor swimming reduces testosterone in adolescent males?
Scrotal absorption? A study in the International Journal of Andrology reports that adolescent boys with an extensive history of indoor swimming were about 3 times more likely to have lower testosterone...
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Freddie vom Saal, still trying to fabricate a problem
Vom Saal’s claims about low dose effects have not been replicated by independent scientists and he has refused to provide his data to government reviewers at the National Toxicology Program. These are...
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Steer clear of tofu – LNT claimed for environmental hormones
Opinion: ‘There are no safe doses for endocrine disruptors’ As a scientist, I am often asked what “proof” links hormone-altering chemicals to diseases and birth defects. One mother questions whether...
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Marla Conehead writes again – at EHN now
“Low doses, big effects: Scientists seek ‘fundamental changes’ in testing, regulation of hormone-like chemicals” Small doses can have big health effects. That is a main finding of a new report, three...
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Freddie vom Saal, again: Packaging on the pounds
A controversial chemical used to harden plastics is contributing to the global obesity epidemic, according to new research by a ‘biologist’. The claims by leading BPA critic Frederick vom Saal come as...
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Bryan Walsh tries to keep the scare alive: BPA Gets a Reprieve — for Now
“… But BPA is also a synthetic estrogen — meaning it can mimic or disrupt the effect of that hormone — and both animal and some human studies have associated BPA exposure with health and developmental...
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Controversy continues over safety of bisphenol A
The controversial chemical bisphenol A, used in food packaging, rears its head again with more research showing a positive association with another health disorder. Nayanah Siva investigates. Type...
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Leipzig’s St. Thomas Boys Choir copes with voices deepening at a younger age
But I thought Greenpeace said we were all being feminized by ‘environmental estrogens’… For 800 years, the St. Thomas Boys Choir has been filling churches with pure, young voices. Now it’s confronting...
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Green-glowing fish provides new insights into health impacts of pollution
Hmm… “Eventually, they produced a fish that was sufficiently sensitive to the chemicals to give fluorescent green signals to show which parts of its body were responding.” Understanding the damage that...
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EU to Address Risks of Chemical Mixtures, Endocrine Disruptors, Nanosubstances
The European Union is preparing to build on the REACH law and related legislation to address concerns about chemicals in three areas considered to be insufficiently regulated: endocrine disruptors, the...
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Now Kristof is parroting Landrigan: ‘How Chemicals Affect Us’
Included as a Friday funny – even has the old alligator penis myth thrown in for good measure Scientists are observing with increasing alarm that some very common hormone-mimicking chemicals can have...
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Josh Bloom: Why I Don’t Write About Pottery from the Ming Dynasty (Medical...
Sometimes it’s good to recognize your limitations. For example, I could describe how DNA works, or how to make crystal meth, poison your neighbor or blow stuff up. I won’t, but I could. And I’d know...
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Freddie vom Saal and his ‘endocrine disrupter’ band keep playing on and on
Concerns about the health effects of bisphenol A have led manufacturers to produce and market BPA-free products. However, a new study has found that one of the compounds that replaces BPA is just as...
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Because we need more headlines like this: Health Dangers in Your Hose:
“Are You Watering Your Garden With Endocrine Disruptors and Toxic Chemicals? Your garden hose may contain high levels of lead, flame retardants, heavy metals, and endocrine-disrupting phthalates and...
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Junk Science Week: Junk news by rubber ducky
Watch as Rick Smith bamboozles two TV networks On March 30, Health Canada and Environment Canada issued a preliminary joint report on triclosan, a preservative, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal chemical...
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What’s in your wallet? Another ‘estrogen’
A bioactive chemical cousin of BPA turns up on money and in receipts Two small investigations over the past 18 months turned up U.S. greenbacks tainted with bisphenol A, a hormone-mimicking pollutant....
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Hormone-mimicking chemicals cause inter-species mating
So, are these new hybrids fertile? Yes? So this is increasing biodiversity by introducing new subspecies and widely broadening the gene pool? Must be really good bad then, huh? Hormone-mimicking...
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Women who use nail varnish and hairspray ‘may have higher risk of diabetes’
Personal care products often contain phthalates, which can mimic human hormones High-maintenance women who cover themselves in self-tan and hair spray may be at higher risk of developing diabetes,...
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Women at risk: Health problems linked to environmental estrogens
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, the post hoc fallacy: Shortly after moving to Canada’s Okanagan Valley, Patricia Lee started experiencing severe irregularities in her menstrual cycle. She had one painful...
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Early puberty? Girls exposed to household chemical menstruate earlier, CDC...
Hmm… they managed to find one “maybe-if-could-might” association and nothing for the “endocrine disrupter” promoters’ favorite suspects. Girls exposed to high levels of a common household chemical had...
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PCBs, other pollutants delay pregnancy?
Given much higher exposures during the mid-20th century, would there have been baby-boomers or Gen-Xers if this were true? [NIH News]
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NIH uses cartoon to show how flame retardants act like estrogen — But...
Cartoons ≠ evidence. NIH reports: By determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins at the atomic level, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered how some commonly used...
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Dr. Tyrone Hayes and Endocrine Disruption
James Delingpole takes a look at the atrazine crusade and endocrine disruptor research. Dr. Hayes says its a conspiracy–those big bad ag chemical people who make it possible to feed so many. Delingpole...
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Plastic Bottle Battle in India
Plastic is good for containers of all kinds, including medication containers. There is no evidence to support pushing glass in favor of plastic on the justification of the endocrine disrupter...
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Now BPA is an Obesogen?–Nonsense
I have seen and reviewed a lot on Bisphenol A (BPA) and it isn’t toxic in any way. Safety studies have repeatedly exonerated BPA. Chemophobes just can’t stop fretting. So you might say I really don’t...
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BPA is safe, but Greenies need to be Scared
So some clown in Wisconsin writes up a bill to make sure that anxious mommies worried about the non existent hormone disruption can check labels to see if BPA is there. Hormone disruption is seeing...
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Endocrine disruptors from agricultural pesticides?
A study finds that percentage of agricultural lands in three watersheds correlates with testicular oocytes (eggs) in male smallmouth bass. A correlation between testicular oocytes (TO) was found with...
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Yes, there actually is worse junk science than the climate stuff
It’s called “endocrine disruptors.” The game here is to identify chemicals, that when given to rats at absurdly high concentrations, can cause certain reproductive issues. Note that even in rats,...
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There are reasons I like Shaw
I don’t know Michael Shaw except by JunkScience, but invariably he hits a very positive chord with me and his disgust with these endocrine disruptor clowns makes me cheer. So, here you go, Shaw taking...
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Angela Logomasini discusses endocrine disruptor nonsense
In 2008 I wrote a piece for Heartland on the silly endocrine disruptor claims of some greenie junk researchers. Since then I kept track of the BPA hucksters and scaremongers. There was never anything...
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No consumer health risk from bisphenol A exposure–so says EU food safety group
EFSA’s comprehensive re-evaluation of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure and toxicity concludes that BPA poses no health risk to consumers of any age group (including unborn children, infants and adolescents)...
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Enviro money compromises our alliances to promote sensible enviro laws
Here’s how it works–make a offer the supposed conservatives can’t refuse. Or create a special interest bill–like biofuels or subsidies and mandates for wind that feed money to cash hungry land owners....
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NO… study does not link pesticides with lower sperm count
Hard to get dumber than this one. The “researchers” asked 155 men at a fertility clinic how much fruit and vegetables they ate. Exposure to pesticides was then guesstimated based on USDA reports about...
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Another Endocrine-Disruptor Scare
A study that is being reported in hundreds of media around the world simultaneously (that is the first clue of science by press release) claims that pregnant women exposed to endocrine-disrupting...
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