An Alarmist Vocabulary: Chemical Is “Linked To,” “Study Suggests,” “Consistent With”
28th October 2013
Reliance on hard facts, scientific standards, and cautious conclusions seems to be withering away. Even well-school researchers have become involved in the game of activism and alarmism, using carefully chosen rhetoric to generate headlines and fear based on inconclusive and largely meaningless studies and even unpublished research.
See e.g. the Fedearl budget or any speech by Barack Obama.