{"title":"Junk Science and Environmental Policy: Obscuring Public Debate with Misleading Discourse","authors":"Charles N. Herrick","doi":"10.13021/G8PPPQ.212001.359","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Although the term \"junk science\" has become a fixture in the popular media, content analysis of news stories for a five-year period reveals almost no evidence of s ubsta ntive or procedural inadequacies in the science used to support environmental or public health policies. Instead, the charge of \"junk science\" is meaningful primarily from a political or ideological perspective,and plays a strategic role in contrarian, anti-regulatory discourse.","PeriodicalId":82464,"journal":{"name":"Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy","volume":"21 1","pages":"11-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"34","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13021/G8PPPQ.212001.359","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Although the term "junk science" has become a fixture in the popular media, content analysis of news stories for a five-year period reveals almost no evidence of s ubsta ntive or procedural inadequacies in the science used to support environmental or public health policies. Instead, the charge of "junk science" is meaningful primarily from a political or ideological perspective,and plays a strategic role in contrarian, anti-regulatory discourse.
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