Edited by author 03-12-2003 11:28 AM
my favorite is the guy at the Hudson institute who just made up a whole CDC study supposed to prove that organic food would kill you:
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?tit...shing_organic_foods

The best part? The guy once wrote a book called Saving the World with Pesticides and Plastics.

I love the smell of irony in the morning. A front group that blows the whistle on front groups. Still, it's gotta lotta gems.

"I love the smell of irony in the morning. A front group that blows the whistle on front groups. Still, it's gotta lotta gems."

Excellent point. PR Watch is occasionally worth reading, but most of the time it seems to define PR as "anybody who disagrees with our Left wing politics."

It's interesting that PR Watch's Stauber along with folks like HSUS's Howard Lyman ran around saying Mad Cow Disease might be bigger than AIDS but now that it's becoming clearer the disease has a lot of difficulties crossing the species barrier through consumption of infected beef, Stauber and Lyman see no reason to correct themselves (and Stauber has now moved on to alarmism about chronic wasting disease).

I guess being on the correct side of the political argument means never having to say you're sorry or were wrong (now if Michael Fumento had made similar claims that turned out to be overblown, it'd be featured prominently on the PR Watch web site).