Junk science

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Junk science might refer to:

"Junk science" can mean different things to different people.

• To scientists, science journalists, and people who support science, "junk science" means either pseudoscience or very badly conducted science (conclusions based on no experimental controls or no peer review).
• To pseudoscientists and pseudoscience promoters (read: idiots and/or charlatans), "junk science" means science that disagrees with one's presuppositions, often based on a profit motive.
  • Steven Milloy is a major proponent of this latter meaning of "junk science", taking money from libertarian think tanks Cato Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute to promote unscientific ideas or to deny scientific ideas for the tobacco and fossil fuel companies.