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To: Road Walker who wrote (313631)	12/3/2006 7:40:04 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

He gets his information from here junkscience.com Milloy is an interesting character. In a February 6, 2006 article entitled "Smoked Out: Pundit for Hire", Paul D. Thacker of The New Republic reported that Fox News "Junk Science" commentator Steven Milloy was receiving money from ExxonMobil while attacking research on global warming as a supposedly independent journalist.[1] Thacker also noted that Milloy was receiving almost $100,000 a year from Philip Morris while he ridiculed the evidence regarding the hazards of second-hand smoke as "junk science". While Fox News has yet to address its role in the issue of industry-paid journalists,[1] tobacco industry documents reveal that Phillip Morris executives conceived of the "Whitecoat Project" in the 1980's as a response to emerging scientific data on the harmfulness of second-hand smoke.[4] The goal of the Whitecoat Project, as conceived by Philip Morris and other tobacco companies, was to use ostensibly independent "scientific consultants" to spread doubt in the public mind about scientific data through the use of terms such as "junk science".[4] en.wikipedia.org