Cross posted over at WILLisms.com.

I hate Junk Science. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? I am talking about the studies that come out and pretty much say we are all screwed and we are all going to die!!!!!!!!

OMG!! Get the Government in here! SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!!!! Think of the CHILDREN!!! We need a billion dollar government grant!!!!! DO SOMETHING! Doom! Gloom! Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!!!

I can tell from the looks I am getting that you are with me. What? You didn’t know I could see you while you read this blog? Ain’t technology great?

Anyway, back to Junk Science. Steven Milloy runs a website called JunkScience.com where he debunks or links to studies that debunk Junk Science. FoxNews.com often posts articles written by him and today he has a rundown entitled: Top Ten Junk Science Stories of the Past Decade

The Top Ten are:

It is a good list, but there are some others to add as well.

Remember when eating eggs would kill you on the spot? That was sometime in the late 1980’s. If you ate an egg, you were taking your life in your own hands. But now we have “The incredible, edible egg!”. Ok, maybe they aren’t as bad for you as we said. Our bad, sorry. It’s a good thing too, I love eggs.

How about fiber will help reduce colon cancer? Remember the great Phil Hartman sketch on Saturday Night Live for Colon Blow cereal? Now a recent study says:

Taken together, the results from two clinical studies - the Polyp Prevention Trial and the Wheat Bran Fiber Study - failed to show any evidence that adopting a low-fat, high-fiber, fruit- and vegetable-enriched eating plan reduces the recurrence of colorectal polyps

Opps.

Then there is the disputed study about autism and vaccinations that says that maybe, just maybe the rise in autism is a function of better diagnosis. 30 years ago, autistic kids were lumped in with those suffering from mental retardation and mental illness. Are there really that many new cases of autism? Or do we just know what to look for now?

The point is that people and the MSM latch onto whatever study comes down the pike that promises doom and gloom. I know people who will tell you with a straight face that they will not drink anything with aspartame because that stuff will kill you or who wont eat hotdogs because they cause cancer or who wont get their kids immunized because of the autism fear. Look, if you want to have whacked out ideas about things that only affect you, have at it buddy, but when your kooky fears start affecting others and more importantly your kids, it is time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and to think for a change.

In the spirit of Junk Science I hereby proclaim that: BREATHING WILL KILL YOU! Think about it…EVERYONE who dies was breathing BEFORE they died….

Think about it.