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Hormesis is junk science funded by polluting industries.

#SteveMilloy
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excerpt from the Madhouse Effect: Consider Steven J. Milloy, the self-avowed “junk man” who rails against what he calls the “junk science” on DDT, ozone depletion, and all matters of “environmental extremism” on his website junkscience. com and in interviews and op-eds in conservative-leaning media outlets.36 Like many of the deniers-for-hire, Milloy got his start in tobacco— Philip Morris, to be precise.37 But he’s become an all-purpose environmental critic. Consider the work he has done for Syngenta, a European agrichemical company that markets pesticides known as neonicotinoids, which have been implicated in colony collapse disorder,38 the mass die-off of bee populations, including a shocking 42 percent die-off of honeybees in the United States during 2014.39 Syngenta also markets a weed killer, atrazine, that has been linked to the die-off of frogs. Milloy has received undisclosed sums of money from Syngenta to be its mouthpiece on atrazine: an e-mail message from Milloy to Syngenta’s corporate head of public relations in 2008 read, “Beth Carroll said that you had some Atrazine talking points for me. Would love to see them.”40 Milloy has also helped target Tyrone Hayes, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who has spent more than a decade researching atrazine and has published work indicating that it causes gender abnormalities in frogs exposed to doses even lower than the EPA limits. Milloy has called Hayes a “Berserkeley atrazine-hater” and has accused him of lying about his science. In a commentary titled “Freaky- Frog Fraud,” he stated that “Hayes seems to be determined to scare the public about atrazine.”41

And somehow, no matter where you look, "junk man" #SteveMilloy always seems to be there at the center (from The #MadhouseEffect):

Cartoon of Fossil Fuel Industry Shill and Deadbeat Dad Steve Milloy, from "The Madhouse Effect"

Which of the following is true of fossil fuel-industry funded attack dog and self-avowed "Junk Man" #SteveMilloy
(cartoon from The #MadhouseEffect courtesy of Tom Toles: amazon.com/Madhouse-Eff...)