By Brian Carnell

Thursday, April 19, 2001

• Number of Human Victims of Mad Cow Disease May Be Small (12/20/01) - Research published in Science suggests that a total of 200-400 people will die from Mad Cow Disease.
  
  
• Federal Officials Tried to Fake Lynx Data (12/17/01) - Researchers planted hair from captive lynx onto posts designed to detect the presence of lynx in national forests.
  
  
• Chickenpox Parties in the United States (11/14/01) - Some parents in the U.S. prefer to expose their children to the chicken pox virus rather than vaccinate.
  
  
• Do Drug Patents Present a Major Obstacle to AIDS Treatment in Africa? (10/31/01) - A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says poverty, not patents, is the main obstacle to HIV treatment in Africa.
  
  
• How Many People Will Die from Mad Cow Disease? (10/30/01) - A new study suggests that far fewer people will die from Mad Cow disease than originally thought.
  
  
• If John Edward is Psychic, Why Didn't He See This Coming? (10/29/01) - Edward was going to make contact with the dead victims of the World Trade Center attack, but called the planned show off after an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the idea.
  
  
• Was Rotavirus Vaccine Prematurely Recalled? (10/17/01) - A vaccine that could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives was withdrawn after the US Centers for Disease Control said it caused dangerous side effects. But now, it turns out the risk of side effects was drastically overstated.
  
  
• NBC's Dishonest Coverage of Glacier National Park (10/3/01) - NBC recently claimed that global warming is causing the glaciers in Glacier National Park to melt. But, if that's true, why are temperatures in the region virtually unchanged over the last 107 years?
  
  
• Landfill Study Was Pure Garbage (10/3/01) - The BBC and environmentalist champion a study finding a link between landfills and birth defects. But there's a lot less there than meets the eye.
  
  
• Are UFOs Afraid of Foot and Mouth Disease? (10/3/01) - When Great Britain instituted travel restrictions in rural areas to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease, the number of new crop circles declined to almost zero. Coincidence, or further evidence that aliens are afraid of violating British laws?
  
  
• Did Nostradamus Predict the World Trade Center Attack? (9/25/01) - Several versions of a quatrain by Nostradamus that supposedly predicts the World Trade Center attacks are circulating on the Internet. The quote is the latest in a line of fake Nostradamus quotes.
  
  
• WorldNetDaily, Anti-Abortion Groups Wants Redbook to Spread Junk Science (9/24/01) - WorldNetDaily wants women to know the 'truth' about abortion and breast bancer, but offers only junk science.
  
  
• Shark Attack Hysteria Is Business as Usual for Media (9/7/01) -
  
  
• Do Cell Phones Increase the Risk of Brain Tumors? (9/6/01) -
  
  
• Do Bicycle Seats Cause Impotence (9/5/01) -
  
  
• New Study Confirms Safety of MMR Vaccine, While Mumps Cases Explode in Great Britain (9/4/01) -
  
  
• Hypnotism Doesn't Create More Accurate Memories (8/29/01) -
  
  
• Does HIV Cause AIDS? (8/29/01) -
  
  
• Do Tens of Thousands of Americans Die from Medical Errors? (8/20/01) -
  
  
• Sex Hungry Ghost Haunts Zanzibar (8/1/01) -
  
  
• Are Playground Accidents Really More Dangerous Than Automobile Accidents? (7/31/01) -
  
  
• Missouri Sues Miss Cleo (7/30/01) -
  
  
• United Nations Endorses Genetically Modified Foods (7/27/01) -
  
  
• Nonsense Statistic from Million Mom March Representative (7/26/01) -
  
  
• Fox News to Feature Psychic Talking about Chandra Levy (7/26/01) -
  
  
• Curses Foiled Again (7/24/01) -
  
  
• The Return of Measles Parties (7/23/01) -
  
  
• Is Global Warming Threatening the Whales? (7/19/01) -
  
  
• The StarLink Corn Scare (7/18/01) -
  
  
• Does the Fossil Record Imply Errors in Climate Models? (7/18/01) -
  
  
• Is Genetic Engineering a Perversion of Nature? (7/17/01) -
  
  
• Astrologist's PhD Thesis Creates Controversy in France (7/9/01) -
  
  
• Steve Milloy Slams Washington Post Coverage of Soft Drinks/Obesity Link (7/4/01) -
  
  
• Cyberchondria (7/4/01) -
  
  
• How Reliable is Forensic Science (6/29/01) -
  
  
• U.S. Citizen Murdered for Deadly Superstition (6/29/01) -
  
  
• Richard Lindzen on the NAS Global Warming Report (6/27/01) -
  
  
• Is Rape an Effective Reproductive Strategy? (6/22/01) -
  
  
• The Ford Explorer's Fatal Safety Error (6/21/01) -
  
  
• More John Edwards Madness (6/21/01) -
  
  
• Does CO2 Lead to Global Warming or Vice Versa (6/21/01) -
  
  
• Ronald Bailey on latest Worldwatch Doom and Gloom (6/14/01) -
  
  
• Does NAS Report Put Bush on the Hot Spot with Global Warming? (6/14/01) -
  
  
• Do Computers Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? (6/12/01) -
  
  
• Is The Death Penalty Racially Biased? (6/8/01) -
  
  
• The Truth About Polygraphs (5/2/01) -
  
  
• Aromatherapy Works Thanks to Placebo Effect (5/2/01) -
  
  
• Do Breast Implants Cause Lung and Brain Cancer? (4/26/01) -
  
  
• Does New Study Prove Gulf War Syndrome Is Real? (4/26/01) -
  
  
• Missing Genitals Hysteria Sweeps Nigeria (4/26/01) -
  
  
• Are Ocean Temperatures Gradually Increasing? (4/23/01) -
  
  
• John Edward's Cold Reading Gig (4/20/01) -
  
  
• Milloy Dissects Anti-Soft Drink Claims (4/19/01) -
  
  
• The Problem with Media Coverage of Global Warming (4/19/01) -
  
  
• Is Cold Fusion a Constitutionally Protected Religion? (4/17/01) -
  
  
• "Dangerous" Levels of Radiation Found in Washington, DC (4/17/01) -
  
  
• Project Censored's Lunacy: The 2001 Version (4/13/01) -
  
  
• South Africa Plans to Ignore Controversial AIDS Report (4/12/01) -
  
  
• Does Global Warming Necessarily Mean More Disease? (4/12/01) -
  
  
• The Myth of Fingerprints (4/10/01) -
  
  
• Giving Pseudoscientists the Benefit of the Doubt (4/9/01) -
  
  
• Childhood Brain Cancer? It's Not a Coincidence, It's Progress (4/1/01) -
  
  
• Jon Katz and Literary Detective Work (1/22/01) -
  
  

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