The recent NY Times article on “Retracted Scientific Studies” shows that the system of peer review, transparency and reproducibility are working to keep the best science honest. But the system fails miserably when it comes to regulatory science affecting American public health. Public health suffers because nearly every study the federal government accepts for evaluating […]
Archive | Why You Can’t Trust Federal & Corporate “Science”
Eastman Chemical Wins False & Deceptive “Two-Fer”
Eastman Chemical Company gets a double “false and deceptive” award. The first is for claiming that its Tritan plastic material is free of estrogenic activity. The second is for claiming that the dubious and discredited scientific study that supposedly backs their claims was done by a credible, independent lab. The False and Deceptive Statement Numerous […]
GLP Part 2: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science
See also: GLP, Part 1, “Good Laboratory Practices:” Obsolete Federal Science, Jeopardizing Public Health, and the multi-part series: Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” The average non-scientist would have no problem recognizing any number of once-useful objects and practices that are now obsolete in a modern, first-world country. That list would certainly include […]
GLP, Part 1, “Good Laboratory Practices:” Obsolete Federal Science, Jeopardizing Public Health.
See also: GLP Part 2: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science, and the multi-part series: Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” Federal regulatory science is flawed in many aspects, but one of the primary reasons lies in the outdated and rudimentary rules embodied in “Good Laboratory Practices” (GLP). GLP was created in 1978 […]
INDEX: Why You Can’t Trust Government Science
Why You Can’t Trust Corporate & Federal Regulatory “Science” “Good Laboratory Practices (GLP):” Obsolete Regulatory Science That Jeopardizes Public Health GLP: Federal Regulation’s Buggy Whip Science Old Ideas, Old Science Cripple Federal Regulation Federal Protocols Offer Many Opportunities To Bias Science Secret Chemicals: What The Government Won’t Tell You, Can Kill Private Science For Hire: […]
Private Science For Hire: Poster Children For Un-trustworthy Science
Part 4 of a 4-Part Series View Part 1 here: What is Peer Review And How It Can Go Wrong? View Part 2 here: Peer Review, Reproducibility: How To Separate Good Science From Sketchy Tales View Part 3 here: Bad Science Thrives When Corporations & Government Regulators Deny Peer Review More articles on this topic […]
Scientific Fraud: Laundering Money & People
This article is one in a series. For the other articles, please see: INDEX: “Why You Can’t Trust Government Science” Fraud and deception contaminate a substantial percentage of scientific papers. As the details below illustrate, even many of the best peer-reviewed journals are victimized by companies and private labs that: Deliberately conceal conflicts of […]
Just Because The FDA Says Something’s Safe Doesn’t Mean It Is
This article is a stub for work in progress and is included here to offer readers a view of a few of the links describing a few of the FDA’s numerous failures. The roots of those failures have a bearing on other articles on Stealth Syndromes. This article is one in a series. For the […]
Science Funding: Sponsors Get The Results They Pay For
This article is a stub for work in progress and is included here to offer readers a view of many of the links dealing with funding abuses which have a bearing on other articles on this web site. This piece will be fleshed out as resources allow. This article is one in a series. For […]
Old Ideas, Old Science Cripple Federal Regulation
This article is one in a series. For the other articles, please see: INDEX: “Why You Can’t Trust Government Science” See also this article from the NIH publication, Environmental Health Perspectives: Why Public Health Agencies Cannot Depend on Good Laboratory Practices as a Criterion for Selecting Data Once a scientific concept becomes entrenched, it has […]