For example, junk science has deprived all of us of our right to make health care choices. And morbidly obese individuals were denied the use of the most effective diet drugs based on sketchy data. Junk science also steals public health resources. Just last year, EPA promulgated new air quality standards that are the most expensive environmental regulation in history. Those standards are based on junk science.
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No one study proves anything. Scientific knowledge is gained slowly and incrementally over time. Science occurs in laboratories, not in press conferences or newsrooms. Simply put, headlines ain't science. The Washington Post and New York Times are newspapers, not peer-reviewed science journals.