09-26-2006, 09:18 PM
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Junkie
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
And is it really published by a Fox News columnist?
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Yep. Not just a fox news guy but a Phillips Morris and Exxon lobbyist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy
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Steven Milloy is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris[1] and ExxonMobil.[2] From the 1990s until the end of 2005, he was an adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Milloy runs the website Junkscience.com, which is dedicated to debunking what he alleges to be false claims regarding global warming, DDT, passive smoking and ozone depletion among other topics.[3] His other website, CSRWatch.com, is focused around attacking the corporate social responsibility movement. He is also head of the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund he runs with tobacco executive Tom Borelli, who is listed as the secretary of the Advancement of Sound Science Center, a nonprofit Milloy operates from his home in Potomac, Maryland.
In January 2006, Paul D. Thacker reported in The New Republic that Milloy, who is presented by Fox News as an independent journalist, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from the Phillip Morris company since the early 1990s, and that non-profit organizations controlled by Milloy have received large payments from ExxonMobil. A spokesperson for Fox News stated, "Fox News was unaware of Milloy's connection with Philip Morris. Any affiliation he had should have been disclosed."
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