Adolescent sarcasm is Milloy's forte. In addition to disputing the scientific basis for these concerns, Milloy frequently accuses the questioners of tainted motives. The media, he says, uses junk science to advance particular social and political agendas. Social activists use it to achieve social and political change. Government bureaucrats use it to fatten their budgets.
Businesses use junk science to trash competitors' products or promote their own.
The clients for whom Milloy was personally registered included Monsanto and the International Food Additives Council. Both Milloy and the EOP Group claim that he no longer works there, but he was still registered as an EOP lobbyist as recently as the summer of 1999. The Cato Institute has published two books by Milloy, Science Without Sense and Silencing Science, the latter with co-author Michael Gough, a former fellow Cato adjunct scholar. Aside from his daily website postings, Milloy writes opinion pieces that are picked up by dozens of newspapers and trade publications across the country, including the New York Post, the Washington Times, New Australian, San Francisco Examiner, Detroit Free Press, Cincinnati Enquirer and Chemical and Engineering News. In fact, many of the news stories that quote Milloy have tended to inflate or distort his credentials.