Robert Whitaker
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 In his written opinion, Oliver Wendell Holmes supported the decision by noting "experience has shown that heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, imbecility, etc." bad science had become the foundation for bad law:
We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the state for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 That's literally true, but it's bad science," I said aloud. "The burden of proof is on the innovator. One must prove that a technique works."
"Right," Fran replied. "One cannot be required to disprove a negative."
A review of stents in JAMA, which sorts benefits into two categories, "proven" and "unproven,"19 is similarly bad science.
"The logic here is really disappointing," I exclaimed. "There is no such thing as an 'unproven benefit.'"
"Right again," said Fran. "It's more like political spinning than science. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Junk science and the discrediting of alternative medicine
While distorted science is used to promote synthetic chemicals that are extremely dangerous and almost universally ineffective, the same sort of distortion is used to attack anything that could compete with high-profit pharmaceuticals. bad science is used to attack vitamins, nutrients, and all natural therapies that powerful corporations can’t patent to make real money.
Vitamin E was routinely discredited in the mainstream media, for example, using remarkably bad science. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 They've got "bad science" down to a science.
Genetic engineering creates wide-spread, unpredictable changes
The prevailing worldview behind the development of GM foods was that genes were like Lego blocks, independent pieces that snap into place. This is false. The process of creating a GM crop can produce massive changes in the natural functioning of the plant's DNA. Native genes can be mutated, deleted, permanently turned off or on, and hundreds may change their levels of expression. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 No BS (that really stands for no bad science). No "Win One for the Gipper" speeches. When it comes to your brain,
Play Poc here's a fact that's harsher than a Buffalo winter: The research shows that, eventually, everyone in America will either get Alzheimer's or care for someone who has it.
In some way or another, we're all going to be affected by serious change-your-life memory problems. But the Gipper side of that statistic is this: Memory disorders aren't as uncontrollable as they seem, and the way to attack potential brain problems is by using your brain to understand them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of, course, medicine has no monopoly on bad science in the U.S. these days. The Bush Administration has practically outlawed science and recently announced a new policy requiring that all scientific papers be personally reviewed by President Bush himself. From now on, only those papers receiving gold star happy face stickers will be allowed to be published in scientific journals. Watch for exciting upcoming topics like "Why sewage runs downhill" and "1001 new uses for oil."
What censorship? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Looking at bad science a second time does not transform it into good science.
Consider some of the biggest food and medicine lies we've seen over the last few years:
Nicotine is not addictive.
Fat-free foods won't make you fat.
Margarine is healthier than butter.
Eggs cause high cholesterol.
Vioxx is perfectly safe.
Monosodium glutamate is safe for infants.
Everyone should drink fluoride to have healthy teeth.
Thalidomide harms no one.
High fructose corn syrup doesn't cause obesity.
Tens of millions of children need to be on Ritalin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Fred Baughman, Robert Whitaker (author of Mad In America: bad science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill) and many others. Through the emotionally-charged personal testimonies of parents whose children have committed suicide on Prozac, along with secret memos from the drug companies' own top executives, Generation Rx weaves a terrifying tale of criminal conspiracy, the mass abandonment of medical ethics, and the routine betrayal of an entire generation by an industry that seems fixated on the idea of profits at any cost. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| This is not an example of bad science so much as an example of inappropriate and even dangerous medical practice. And this: We should be more than a bit suspicious of claims about pills that produce fountains of youth or any other miracle.
COX-2 Inhibitors
We begin our story long after the beginning.
In September, 2004, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it had halted a clinical trial of Vioxx because it caused a twofold increase in "major fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Conventional medicine is almost entirely justified by truly bad science. And yet so-called skeptics, who are supposed to exercise clear thinking about all subjects, never seem to question the fraudulent science behind prescription drugs. The mass drugging of children for fictitious diseases, for example, seems to be okay with such skeptics, who are too busy bashing homeopathy and acupuncture to take an honest, critical look at the junk science behind prescription drugs, it seems.
Ultimately, these so-called quack-busting skeptics only question certain selected topics. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| A review of stents in JAMA, which sorts benefits into two categories, "proven" and "unproven,"19 is similarly bad science.
"The logic here is really disappointing," I exclaimed. "There is no such thing as an 'unproven benefit.'"
"Right again," said Fran. "It's more like political spinning than science."
"What's really troubling," I countered, "is that this so-called evidence is being used to justify life or death decisions."
A 1998 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine asked an important question: Why is stenting often performed "without obvious indication? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The pharmaceutical industry is really just about bad science and great hype. It's about keeping people ignorant of the natural and low-cost treatments for cancer, while funneling people into a corrupt system of medicine that traps them into dependence on high-priced, heavily hyped, toxic drugs and treatments.
Now, I don't know if Herceptin is a toxic drug. I don't think there's enough safety data on the drug yet to draw that kind of a conclusion, but I do know that many of the other cancer treatments out there are highly toxic. Chemotherapy is really poison. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 This is not only bad science but criminal behavior, since by then studies had demonstrated that fluoride was associated with dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, osteoporosis, increased cancer rates, lower fertility, weakened bones, genetic damage, and even damage to the brain. There was, and is, absolutely no justification for adding fluoride to drinking water!
The Cancer Connection
Most regulatory agencies responsible for public safety cite preventing cancer and lowering risk as the major criteria in limiting exposure to potentially toxic substances. |
Alex Steffen
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 The Precautionary Principle
Writers of bad science fiction and easily startled doomsayers love the idea of out-of-control nanomachines—machines that self-replicate and devour everything in their path.
Though that scenario has been largely refuted, it is still very plausible that nanotech and other new sciences could produce unforeseen and detrimental results; therefore, nanotech-nologists need a managing principle akin to the Hippocratic oath. |
Mike Adams
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 This hints at the politics and truly bad science that has been strongly influencing the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for decades. Personally, I'm always skeptical of any association that has a disease as part of its name. It almost seems like the organization "stands" for the disease, as if it wants to promote the disease in order to make itself more important. If a miracle cure for diabetes were discovered and made available tomorrow, all the people working at the ADA would be out of work. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Washington State just happens to choose the most lucrative and politically influential system of medicine to push onto patients at gunpoint: Western medicine, a system of medicine based almost entirely on profiteering, monopoly control, corruption, bribery, disease mongering, false claims and truly bad science.
King County calls this mother a criminal, but who are the real criminals in this case? If I broke into your house and stole your baby because I had decided that the "Mike system" of medicine was the best system for your child, I would be arrested for serious crimes like kidnapping. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 What they did is the worst of bad science." Hardin illustrates his point with a graphic analogy: "If you cook a turkey 120 times longer than the recommended time, and then you tried to extrapolate scientific conclusions based on the charred remains, you'd be thrown out."8
But even after thirty minutes, only 19 percent of the bGH in milk from hormone-treated cows was destroyed. According to Cohen, "They then 'spiked' the milk. This is their word, 'spike.' They added artificial BST . . . 146 times the level of naturally occurring BST in powdered form to the milk and heated it. |
Peter Pringle
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 On the more combustible conclusion—that fragments of transgenic DNA were jumping around in the genome—the Berkeley critics dismissed Quist and Chapela's results as bad science. In a letter to Nature, researchers from the Berkeley plant department charged that Quist and Chapela's claim was "unfounded" because they had wrongly interpreted their analysis, probably by looking at false positives from lab contamination. |
Peter Radetsky
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 That the so-called traditional allergists think that they have good science and that the so-called clinical ecologists have bad science is ridiculous. It's like the left-handed surgeon arguing with the right-handed surgeon about how to take out a gall bladder. They're doing the same thing in a little different way. But the differences are meaningless. There are good medical people on both sides — absolutely, no problem! They complement each other."
It's a minority view of the situation, but Levin offers minority — and provocative — views on just about everything. |
Elaine Feuer
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 The NIH calls Strecker's theory "bad science."
If Dr. Strecker's hypothesis is so ridiculous, then why has he been censored by prestigious American and European medical journals, by network television and radio, and by major newspapers? When he attempted to advertise his AIDS video, The Strecker Memorandum, why was Dr. Strecker denied television and radio advertising time? If he is talking nonsense, why the need for censorship? Give the public some credit and let the American people discern what's real and what isn't. |
John Robbins
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 This can sound like bad science fiction and seem unbelievable at first. But it is unfortunatelv all too real. The changes we are causing go far beyond a simple rise in temperature. If we continue to radically alter the envelope of gases that surround the planet and sustain life, there will be all kinds of other effects, from bizarre weather to localized crop failures to ecosystem collapses. Schneider says we can only speculate about some of them. The Gulf Stream could change direction or stop, and if it did, while the world was warming, Europe would freeze. |
| This scenario may seem like bad science fiction, but it is being predicted by many leading environmentalists. And if it happens, says Ed Ayres, editor of WorldWatch, the consequences will be severe.
"The United States will lose much, if not all, of its grain surplus. In so doing, it will also lose much of its ability to . . . (provide) security for its own people. . . ."10
And it's not just the Ogallala. The same pattern is taking place all over the world. |
John Lauritsen
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 The issue of 2 February 1988 contained an article by Ann Guidici Fettner, insultingly entitled: "Dealing With Duesberg: bad science Makes Strange Bedfellows".
In any debate, opponents can disagree about facts and about the interpretation of facts. This is to be expected. And people make mistakes. One also learns from experience that people can become very attached to their positions; even honorable and worthy opponents will sometimes stubbornly defend a proposition long after it has ceased to be tenable. |
Richard Leviton
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 Allopathic medicine disregards the patient's interpretation of the significance of an illness as bad science and etiologically irrelevant. But for Dossey the way in which a patient perceives meaning in the illness experience is crucial to its outcome.
That's because meaning is inseparable from the actual thoughts, feelings, and emotions of the patient, the human who has an illness. A patient's meanings enter the body and change it on the atomic and molecular level. Illness for many is often the pivotal life experience in which the issue of meaning is first articulated. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 Responding to the C&EN fluoridation report, on August 23, 1988, the Christian Science Monitor printed an editorial reply entitled "Fluoridation Politics Makes bad science." According to this editorial, "There is growing awareness of one of the lesser-known scientific scandals—the suppression in the United States (and sometimes elsewhere) of research questioning fluoridation and persecution of scientists who 'get out of line [emphasis added].'" It likewise noted, "There is also continuing debate about the morality of imposing medication through the water supply. |
Stanton Peele
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 Some of the other problems associated with the new diseases are:
• Disease conceptions of misbehavior are bad science and are morally and intellectually sloppy. Biology is not behavior, even in those areas where a drug or alcohol is taken into the body. Alcoholism involves a host of personal and environmental considerations aside from how alcohol affects the bodies of drinkers. Furthermore, once we treat alcoholism and addiction as diseases, we cannot rule out that anything people do but shouldn't is a disease, from crime to excessive sexual activity to procrastination. |
Ralph Moss, PhD
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 This is bad science," he added.
As Professor Balz Frei of the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, said, "The value of vitamin C in lowering the risk of cancer, heart disease, and other serious health problems must be considered in its totality, not just in a focus on one single aspect of its biological effect."
What I find particularly astonishing is that later in 1998, the authors of the original study published another report on vitamin C. This showed that people who received 500 milligrams of vitamin C per day had substantial benefit from the practice! |
Robert Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden
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 In 1978, in response to a Saturday Review article describing regeneration work by me and others, a member of his lab had written a long, vituperative letter to the editor accusing me of "bad science" that had "made life difficult" for real researchers like him and his partners. He accused me of falsifying data on the rat limb experiment. He said the results I'd reported in three days were impossible, even though he'd never bothered to repeat the experiment himself. He ridiculed a claim that blastemas arose from white blood cells, an assertion that neither I nor anyone else had ever made. |
Kenny Ausubel
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 Biologist Mae-Wan Ho has termed the situation the "marriage of bad science and big business."84
Despite such radical emerging technologies, Congress recently diminished the regulatory powers of the FDA after drug companies lobbied to relax the standards of safety and efficacy while shortening the lengthy, expensive timelines required to gain drug approval. Using dangerous and fearsome diseases such as cancer and AIDS as justifications, the pharmaceutical manufacturers want to save money and lessen their liability despite lowering the bar for drug-safety testing and effectiveness. |
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