A Nail In His Place

Thursday, April 06, 2006
By Steven Milloy

My web site JunkScience.com celebrated its 10th anniversary on April 1, 2006. To mark the event, this column spotlights 10 big junk science stories of the last 10 years. In no particular order, they are:

1. The most toxic manmade chemical? That’s what some called dioxin, a by-product of natural and industrial combustion processes and the “contaminant of concern” in the Vietnam-era defoliant known as Agent Orange. Billions of dollars have been spent studying and regulating dioxin, but debunking the scare only cost a few thousand dollars.

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(They did not run this one.)

After reading Tom Ehrich’s latest column, one has to wonder how such a politically correct Jesus could have been so offensive? An ambiguous storyteller who consistently avoided certainty does not sound like a man who would be a threat or even remembered.

Life has questions. People without answers are common. People with answers are rare. A person who claims to be THE answer is either crazy, lying or something else entirely. Did they hang a clueless milquetoast of a man or one who claimed unequivocally to be the way, the truth and the life? Who was he?