Note from Ilena Rosenthal, Health Lover.
http://ilenarose.blogspot.com
www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/QuackWatchWatch.htm
Barrett's Internet Junk Science PR Team

Steve Milloy ... like Stephen Barrett, are chemical industry mouths.
Einormous mouths being used to protect the chemical industry while
pretending to be 'unbiased.' Far from it. They are slick writers for
hire who have worked for years falsely claiming industry science is
'sound.' Baloney.

They have formulas where they expound the notion that chemicals (in
any and all combinations) are 'safe.' So are breast implants according
to them ... and vaccinations and pharmaceuticals all get the green
light from these corporate defenders.

As a corporate lawyer .... Milloy wars against plaintiffs lawyers
working to bring compensation for those whose health has been
destroyed by chemicals, breast implants, etc. His junk journalism uses
the same formulas over and over again to claim that the industries who
pay him well ... are innocent and the victims of greedy plaintiffs
lawyers and their clients.

To quote from this heart wrenching appeal from Junk Lawyer, Milloy,
"Though I don’t know what the fate of Schumer’s bill will be — would a
Democratic-controlled Congress really undermine the credibility of the
FDA? — it looks like the class-action lawsuit filed in federal court
may be on a collision course with the Daubert decision."

Looks like he has new job security to continue to defend Daubert ... a
coup for industry. "Credibility of the FDA ??? " Who are you kidding?

Milloy should be sued for journalistic malpractice.

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CLEAR PROFILE: STEVEN MILLOY AND JUNKSCIENCE.COM
1155 Connecticut Ave Nw, Suite 300, Washington DC 20036
Phone: 202-467-8586 Fax: 202-467-0768
http://web.archive.org/web/20030223171025/http://www.clearproject.org/reports_mi
lloy.html

Current Affiliations:
Front man, Junkscience.com web site
Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute
Commentator, Fox News.com

Compiled December 2001

Role in backlash movement: Industry flack.

Overview :"Junkman" Steven Milloy has made a career of lobbying for
polluting industries, heading corporate front groups to deny
environmental concerns, and ridiculing individual environmentalists on
behalf of corporate interests. In the world according to Milloy, any
scientific study that does not support the world view where all
chemicals are safe is "junk science", all environmentalists are
alarmist, and pollution and second hand smoke are harmless. The labels
fly fast and furious, regardless of where the scientific mainstream
falls on an issue and regardless of what point we are at in the
scientific discovery process.

Interestingly, Milloy denies he was ever a lobbyist. In 1998, while
executive director of the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, he
replied to an inquiry into whether he was a lobbyist: "I do not lobby
for ANYONE. Before I became executive director of TASSC, I did some
technical consulting for a D.C. firm which had the policy of
registering all its employees and consultants as lobbyists (whether or
not they lobbied) pursuant to a new law passed in 1995. I am aware of
the listing and have asked it to be corrected since I no longer work
for that firm. I challenge anyone to produce any evidence that I have
ever lobbied any government official for anything."

However, Milloy shows up in federal lobbyist registration data for
1997 as having lobbying expenditures on his behalf, indicating his
firm, the EOP Group, believed him to be an active lobbyist,
"technical" or otherwise. The same federal records indicate Milloy
represented the American Petroleum Institute, FMC Corp, Fort Howard,
International Food Additives Council, and Monsanto. Interestingly,
according to these records, Milloy lobbied for Monsanto on the subject
of "food safety and labeling", which is lobbyist speak for "biotech
foods". (Center for Responsive Politics, Lobbyist Database) According
to the Washington Representatives, Milloy was still registered as a
lobbyist with the EOP Group in 1999, with the American Petroleum
Institute and FMC Corp listed as clients. (1999 Washington
Representatives).

According to Milloy's official biography, Milloy holds a B.A. in
Natural Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Health
Sciences in Biostatistics from The Johns Hopkins University School of
Hygiene and Public Health, a Juris Doctorate from the University of
Baltimore, and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law
Center.

About Junkscience.com and Citizens for the Integrity of Science (CFIS)

Since 1996, Junkscience.com has listed links to current articles on
many environmental and public health issues, with running commentary
courtesy of the "junkman".

Milloy defines Junk science as "bad science used by lawsuit-happy
trial lawyers, the 'food police,' environmental Chicken Littles,
power-drunk regulators, and unethical-to-dishonest scientists to fuel
specious lawsuits, wacky social and political agendas, and the quest
for personal fame and fortune." (http://www.junkscience.com/faqs.html)

Though Milloy refuses to disclose organizational details such as who
pays his bills, there are a few things we know about Milloy's outfit:
Though there is no contact information other than an email on the web
site, Junkscience.com is registered to Milloy Inc, at the same address
as the EOP Group, the lobbying firm in Washington, DC. where Milloy
was registered as a lobbyist . However, the phone number for
junkscience.com is registered to "Advancement of Sound Science
Coalition" (a well exposed corporate front group and a former project
of the EOP Group) at 1155 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 300 in Washington,
DC. This is the same phone number and address Milloy has used for the
Citizens for the Integrity of Science, Junkscience.com,
NoMoresScares.com, and of course, the defunct Advancement of Sound
Science Coalition. The fax number used on numerous press releases over
the years is "an interoffice fax" at 1155 Connecticut Ave NW,.
according to a simple internet search.

Milloy's Citizens for the Integrity of Science, (CFIS) the supposed
organization that sponsors Milloy's junkscience.com page, does not
exist in IRS records as a non-profit (as of fall 2001), though by
using a "dot.org" web address, non-profit status is suggested. Why
wouldn't Milloy register his "dot.org" as a non-profit? Non-profits
are subject to certain pesky rules of public disclosure- information
that could be damaging to junkscience.com and the Citizens for the
Integrity of Sceince's credibility. Thus, we are missing the elusive
pieces of evidence we need: a solid money trail, names of board
members, articles of incorporation- all things Milloy never wants us
to find.

The internet site, CFIS.org (Citizens for the Integrity of Science),
is registered to Steve Milloy's home address in posh Potomac, MD, with
Steve Milloy listed as the administrative contact. So who is actually
paying for junkscience.com? We don't know, and Milloy has repeatedly
refused to disclose his patrons. Steve Milloy answers question of who
pays for Junkscience.com (annoyingly in the third person), "Steve
Milloy [is paying for junkscience.com]. But who pays isn't important;
the substance is. Steve figures he has the junk science debate won
when an opponent raises a collateral issue like funding." Collatoral
issue, Steve? We see it is pretty central, especially if former (?)
client Monsanto is paying for all that pro-biotech spin, for example.
And can you blame us if we wonder why Milloy is pretending to run a
non-profit that exists as nothing more than the same phone number set
up for an known tobacco industry front group in 1993?

CFIS does appear to have some sort of board, though we know of only
two members, including Milloy. In a May 11,1999 Freedom of Information
Act filed by Citizens for the Integrity of Science posted on the
Junkscience web page, Steve Milloy listed himself and Michael Gough of
the Competitive Enterprise Institute as "Directors" of Citizens for
the Integrity of Science, with TASSC's old 1155 Connecticut address
and contact info, which is also Milloy's current business address.

Previous Positions/Projects

   * While a registered lobbyist with the EOP Group, Milloy's clients
included Monsanto, the American Petroleum Institute, Crosthwait Terney
(a conservative legal firm) the FMC Corporation, and the International
Food Additives Council.b(1996 Washington Representatives, Washington
Representatives, 1999 and Center for Responsive Politics lobbyist
database 1997 data.) Milloy claims he was "a technical consultant" for
the lobbying firm.

   * Milloy was a leader in the already defunct NoMoreScares.com, a
web site launched in August 2000 primarily to defend biotech food and
malign Fenton Communications, one of the only PR firms in Washington
DC willing to work with non-profit public interest groups and their
relatively small PR budgets. Other coalition members included
Elizabeth Whelan of the American Council on Science and Health, Alex
Avery and Michael Fumento of the Hudson Institute, National Center for
Public Policy Research, Bonner Cohen of the Lexington Institute, and
Michael Gough of the Cato Institute. No More Scares disappeared almost
as hastily as it was brought into existence, perhaps made redundant by
the Guest Choice Network, which is now called "The Center for Consumer
Freedom". Who can keep track of who is doing what? (Which is exactly
the goal of ever-changing corporate front groups)

   * Milloy was Director of Science Policy Studies at the National
Environmental Policy Institute.

   * According to the P.R. Watch report "How Big Tobacco Helped
Create the Junkman," Milloy got his full fledged launch as an industry
apologist in the early 1990s working for the tobacco industry. In 1992
Milloy worked for James Tozzi at Multinational Business Services.
Tozzi, a former career bureaucrat at the U.S. Office of Management and
Budget who had spearheaded the Reagan-era OMB campaign to gut
environmental regulations, is described in internal Philip Morris
documents as the company's "primary contact on the EPA/ETS risk
assessment during the second half of 1992." During that period, the
memo noted, "Tozzi has been invaluable in executing our Washington
efforts including generating technical briefing papers, numerous
letters to agencies and media interviews," a service for which Philip
Morris paid an estimated $300,000 in consulting fees.

     Check out the full PR Watch report, complete with links to
original tobacco documents.

   * According to PR Watch, after leaving Tozzi's service, Milloy
became president of his own organization called the "Regulatory Impact
Analysis Project, Inc.," where he wrote a couple of reports arguing
that "most environmental risks are so small or indistinguishable that
their existence cannot be proven." Shortly thereafter, he launched the
"Junk Science Home Page." Calling himself "the Junkman," he offered
daily attacks on environmentalists, public health and food safety
regulators, anti-nuclear and animal rights activists, and a wide range
of other targets that he accused of using unsound science to advance
various political agendas.

   * Between March 1997 and the fall of 1998, Milloy was the
well-paid head of the corporate front group,The Advancement of Sound
Science Coalition (Milloy was paid $100,000 for the 1998 fiscal year
according to TASSC's IRS 990 form). For a time, the Junkscience.com
web site and TASSC were one and the same.

     The now-defunct Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC),
founded primarily by Philip Morris in 1993, was part of a corporate
plan to pump millions of dollars into a campaign to cast doubt on a
variety of environmental and public health issues, including global
warming and second hand smoke.(The New York Times, April 25, 1998)
TASSC, originally set up as a front group by APCO and Associates (PR
firm related to EOP Group, Milloy's previous employer), and faded into
oblivion after September 1998, possibly due to the damage caused by
the negative exposure in the 1998 New York Times article. TASSC was
funded by Philip Morris, Exxon, Procter and Gamble, Dow, 3M and other
large corporations, primarily as a pro-tobacco and anti-tort voices.
TASSC left the scene in 1998, yet Milloy has used TASSC's phone number
and address for all his subsequent ventures.

     Though later a project of the EOP Group, TASSC was originally
based in the Washington, D.C. offices of the lobbying firm APCO
Associates and claimed a membership of over 400 corporations
representing chemical, agricultural, manufacturing, oil, dairy,
timber, paper and mining interests, including Amoco, Chevron, and
Occidental Petroleum, as well as industry trade associations. TASSC
also had a science advisory panel of over 200 members, including some
of the most prominent science skeptics in America. TASSC is mentioned
by name in the now infamous "tobacco papers" as a group organized to
help with the "scientific" message that second hand smoke is harmless.
The purpose of TASSC, as described in a memo from APCO's Tom Hockaday
and Neal Cohen, was to "link the tobacco issue with other more
'politically correct' products"--in other words, to make the case that
efforts to regulate tobacco were based on the same "junk science".

   * Environmental Policy Analysis Network- Created and run by Steven
Milloy, the Environmental Policy Analysis Network is an earlier
incarnation of a one-man front group. EPAN served as the pre-TASSC
vehicle for Milloy's editorial campaign for "sound science" and as the
home for Milloy's "Junk Science Home Page" This is particularly
interesting in light of the fact that "junkscience.com" lists the EOP
Group's address as the contact on its web registration.

Highlights, Achievements

   * Milloy put out his latest book in September 2001 published by
the Cato Institute Press, "Junk Science Judo: Self Defense Against
Health Scares and Scams". Both of Milloy's previous books on similar
topics were published by the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based
free market think tank.

   * In October 1999 Milloy rejoiced in the death of Dr. David Rall,
founder of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
renowned public health leader, and by reputation a very kind person.
Milloy wrote, "As far as David Rall is concerned, he was a bad guy
when he was alive. ...Death did not improve track record." Milloy
began his commentary on Rall's untimely death with "Scratch one junk
scientist who promoted the bankrupt idea that rats with a chemical
predicts cancer in humans exposed to much lower levels of the chemical
-- a notion that, at the very least, has wasted billions and billions
of public and private dollars." (Washington Post, October 12, 1999 and
Grist Magazine, October 18, 1999)

   * Milloy was equally callous following the fall 1999 death of
Senator John Chafee, a Rhode Island Republican. Milloy viewed his
death as a good thing for polluters because, "Unfortunately, Sen.
Chafee too often acted like a Democrat on environmental and regulatory
issues. The good news is his replacement as committee chairman will be
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) who has shown courage in opposing the
Kyoto protocol and the EPA air quality proposals." (As Grist
Magazine's Muckracker column pointed out 11/08/99, Milloy was also
wrong about Inhofe being Chafee's replacement)

Read other articles about Steve Milloy and his projects:

John Schwartz, The Washington Post, February 21, 1999. "If you Seek
the Truth, Don't Trash the Science."

P.R. Watch/Center for Media and Democracy
"The Usual Suspects: Industry Hacks Turn Fear on its Head"

"The Trashman Speweth"

An excerpt on Milloy and other "junkscience" talking heads, from John
Stauber and Sheldon Rampton's "Trust Us, We're Experts". Posted by
TomPaine.com

Other interesting sites

"Internet Bunk and the Junkscience Page" We don't know who writes this
page, but he is a true skeptic and provides interesting reading.

"Junk Science and the Art of Spin-Doctoring", by Australian journalist
Stewart Fist