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Berners-Lee warns over online pseudo-science
While I was writing “Don’t Get Fooled Again” I came across numerous examples of pseudo-science being disseminated via the net, from the poisonous theories of the AIDS denialists to the clumsy...
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Booker unbridled…
From George Monbiot’s latest column in The Guardian: So what can you say about a man who makes the same mistake 38 times? Who, when confronted by a mountain of evidence demonstrating that his informant...
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Booker’s false claims (42 articles and counting) downplaying the risks of...
UPDATE – When I originally wrote this blog post I knew of 38 articles by Booker on this subject. He’s done at least 4 more since, bringing the total now to 42 and counting… Poll: Is it right for the...
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More on Booker’s bogus claims about asbestos
Alongside his more grandiose claims about the “magic mineral” (which I highlight in detail in “Don’t Get Fooled Again”), Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker has repeatedly alleged – echoing...
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Telegraph publishes 39th article parroting corporate pseudoscience on asbestos
Over the past six-and-half years, the Sunday Telegraph journalist Christopher Booker has written at least 38 articles in which he downplays the dangers of asbestos. Booker’s initial claim, back in...
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Campaigners warn of “asbestos timebomb” in India
From the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat. Report warns India is “on the cusp of a devastating asbestos cancer epidemic” Record and rising asbestos imports to India will translate to thousands of...
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Booker’s co-author springs to his defence – with more misinformation on asbestos
Following George Monbiot’s damning exposé of Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker’s bogus claims about asbestos and global warming, Booker’s co-author Richard North has written a response on...
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Booker struggles on through the blizzard of facts…
Today’s Sunday Telegraph has yet another article from Christopher Booker on white asbestos, in which he endorses John Bridle, and repeats his bogus scientific claims. Booker today states that white...
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“Professor” John Bridle’s links to the asbestos industry
When the Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker first introduced his readers to John Bridle, he described him as “UK scientific spokesman for the Asbestos Cement Product Producers Association”,...
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UN treaty body considers further restrictions on chrysotile asbestos
Interestingly, Christopher Booker’s latest article downplaying the health risks of white asbestos comes just before the week in which the UN will debate whether to place further restrictions on...
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In his 41st article on the subject, Booker accuses the BBC of “moral...
Earlier this week the BBC’s Today Programme reported a rise in the number of teachers, doctors and nurses dying from the incurable cancer mesothelioma, having been exposed to asbestos in schools and...
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Michael Lees slaps down the Sunday Telegraph over its latest claims on asbestos
For the past six years, the Sunday Telegraph’s Christopher Booker has been trying to convince the world that white asbestos is harmless, regularly parroting the industry’s mantra that the material...
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Veteran Liberal MP’s asbestos industry links exposed
The Daily Mirror has picked up on a story that’s been doing the rounds in Rochdale for a while – the revelations about dubious links between the veteran Liberal MP (now retired) Cyril Smith and the...
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“Misinformed”, “substantially misleading” and “absurd”– the UK government’s...
The Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker has been taking some flack this week over his latest bogus claims on global warming. This in turn has triggered renewed scrutiny of Booker’s denialism...
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Richard North caught white-washing Booker’s Wikipedia entry
Wikipedia’s article on Christopher Booker is currently the top search result when you type type his name into Google. Alongside a rather impressive biography, the article references “Don’t Get Fooled...
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Health experts urge Canadian government to stop funding the Chrysotile Institute
In “Don’t Get Fooled Again”, I highlight Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker’s ongoing campaign to downplay the health risks of white asbestos. Both Booker and his main scientific source,...
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Poll: Is it right for the Sunday Telegraph to mislead the public about the...
The Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker has now written at least 41 different articles in which he repeatedly denies, downplays or misrepresents the scientific evidence around the health...
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Booker attacks… BBC Newsnight science editor Susan Watts
Having disproved man-made global warming, refuted Darwin’s theory of evolution, and proved that white asbestos is “chemically identical to talcum powder”, Christopher Booker this week returned to one...
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George Monbiot launches the Booker prize for pseudo-science…
It had to happen sooner or later… From George Monbiot at the Guardian Today I am launching a new and much-coveted award. It is called the Christopher Booker Prize. It will be presented to whoever...
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Christopher Booker embraces recycling
Journalist Christopher Booker may affect to doubt the human impact on the environment, and the wisdom of recycling targets for our household rubbish, but he appears to have fewer qualms when it comes...
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