National Post FP Comment proudly announces new junk science prize!
Eric Gisin
Posted: June 15, 2009, 7:29 PM by NP Editor
Rubber Duck Award, Junk Science Week
FP Comment's Junk Science Week is proud to announce The Rubber Duck Award for achievement in the
field of junk science. The awards, to be given annually, are intended to recognize the scientists,
NGOs, activists, politicians, journalists, media outlets, cranks and quacks who each year advance
the principles of junk science.
Winners will be scored on the degree to which they succeed in meeting FP Comment's standard
definition of Junk Science: When scientific facts are distorted, when risk is exaggerated or
discounted, when science is adapted and warped by politics and ideology to serve another agenda.
The Rubber Duck Award is named in recognition of the work of Rick Smith, executive director of
Canada's Environmental Defence lobby group and one of Canada's leading purveyors of junk science.
One of his claims is that toy rubber ducks can kill, a distortion of scientific fact so great that
it deserves to have an award named after it.
The 2009 Junk Science Week Rubber Duck Award winners will be announced this coming Saturday, June
20, including a special Lifetime Achievement Award to a person or institution that has done much to
undermine confidence and instill fear in the population.
Nominations accepted at fple...@nationalpost.com
C. Terrance
"Eric Gisin" <gi...@uniserve.com> wrote:
> We need far more science skeptics in the MSM debunking outrageous enviro and alt-med claims.
>
> http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/06/15...
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> Posted: June 15, 2009, 7:29 PM by NP Editor
> Rubber Duck Award, Junk Science Week
>
> FP Comment's Junk Science Week is proud to announce The Rubber Duck Award for achievement in the
> field of junk science. The awards, to be given annually, are intended to recognize the scientists,
> NGOs, activists, politicians, journalists, media outlets, cranks and quacks who each year advance
> the principles of junk science.
>
> Winners will be scored on the degree to which they succeed in meeting FP Comment's standard
> definition of Junk Science: When scientific facts are distorted, when risk is exaggerated or
> discounted, when science is adapted and warped by politics and ideology to serve another agenda.
>
> The Rubber Duck Award is named in recognition of the work of Rick Smith, executive director of
> Canada's Environmental Defence lobby group and one of Canada's leading purveyors of junk science.
> One of his claims is that toy rubber ducks can kill, a distortion of scientific fact so great that
> it deserves to have an award named after it.
>
> The 2009 Junk Science Week Rubber Duck Award winners will be announced this coming Saturday, June
> 20, including a special Lifetime Achievement Award to a person or institution that has done much to
> undermine confidence and instill fear in the population.
>
> Nominations accepted at fplett...@nationalpost.com