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If you ever see the name, Steve Milloy, in an article about some scientific finding and how it's flawed, beware. Mr. Milloy, the former executive director of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, is now the author of junkscience.com.

Just so you know, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition was formed by the tobacco lobby in 1993 to quietly debunk any government finding that smoking caused cancer. As a new article in The New Republic by Franklin Foer points out, this so-called "sound science" movement is "not an indigenous effort from within the profession to improve the quality of scientific discourse, but reflects sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients."

Despite its cynical motives, tobacco's sound science coalition acquired a broad following. Interior Secretary Gale Norton advised the group, and its approach has found its way into the Bush administration.

Foer's article goes a long way in explaining how the Bush administration has been throwing out all empirical evidence if it doesn't fit the ideological mold - in environmental concerns, social concerns, and most apparantly with respect to the invasion of Iraq.

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