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. Selenium prevents cancer new study says. 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 The Washington Post and New York Times are newspapers, not peer-reviewed science journals. But causation is usually more complex than a junk scientists would have you believe. Smoking kills 400,000 people every year.