Integrity?
A moonbat environmental group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has awarded author Theo Colburn the second annual "Rachel Carson Award for Integrity in Science." This is, of course, more or less the equivalent of "The Michael Moore Award for Integrity in Documentary Filmmaking."
Carson was the author of the hysterical and scientifically-unsound book called Silent Spring, which led to what scientists now regard as a vastly overblown panic over the notion that DDT was causing widespread bird extinction and other environmental horrors.
Colburn is a banker, whose scientific credentials are his status as an amateur birdwatcher. His book, Our Stolen Future, blames everything from low sperm counts in humans to sterile bald eagles to declining otter populations to lesbian seagulls (no, I'm not kidding) on man-made agricultural chemicals. Like Carson, Colburn offers no particular scientific evidence, relying instead on anecdotes-and several of his assertions have actually been disproven by sounder studies.
The jury, I understand, is still out on the lesbian seagulls.
Steven Millroy of Junkscience.com offers a parody of Colburn's book here.
Carson was the author of the hysterical and scientifically-unsound book called Silent Spring, which led to what scientists now regard as a vastly overblown panic over the notion that DDT was causing widespread bird extinction and other environmental horrors.
Colburn is a banker, whose scientific credentials are his status as an amateur birdwatcher. His book, Our Stolen Future, blames everything from low sperm counts in humans to sterile bald eagles to declining otter populations to lesbian seagulls (no, I'm not kidding) on man-made agricultural chemicals. Like Carson, Colburn offers no particular scientific evidence, relying instead on anecdotes-and several of his assertions have actually been disproven by sounder studies.
The jury, I understand, is still out on the lesbian seagulls.
Steven Millroy of Junkscience.com offers a parody of Colburn's book here.
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