The Junkman Goes Nuclear [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
Media Matters for America has news on the latest from Steven Milloy [3], the Cato Institute [4]'s self-proclaimed "debunker" of "junk science" and commentator for Fox News [5]. They report that Milloy (who is not a scientist himself) recently self-published a deceptive "study" purporting to show that radiation levels at the U.S. Capitol Building were 65 times higher than the proposed standards for the federal government's planned high-level radioactive waste storage dump at Yucca Mountain [6]. For our exposes on Milloy, see, for example, our article on "How Big Tobacco Created the Junkman [7]" or our report on Milloy's unfounded claim that more asbestos at the World Trade Towers would have saved lives [8] during the 9/11 terrorist attack. (And for a humorous take on the Milloys of the world, the Slashdot website recently featured a clever posting titled, "Can You Spot the Real Scientist? [9]")