Junk Science and Diseases (Other than AIDS and Cancer)

By Michael Fumento

• Quicksilver Salesmen (The American Spectator Online, January 18, 2008)
• Hysteria Drives Government Disease Spending – and It’s Killing Us (The New York Sun, November 7, 2007)
• ’Suffer the Little Children’ No More (TCS Daily, October 23, 2007)
• One Flew Over the Bird Flu’s Nest (The American Spectator Online, September 14, 2007)
• NeuroArmed and Ready (TCS Daily, August 14, 2007)
• Defeating Malaria with both High - and Low-Tech (TCS Daily, April 2, 2007)
• A Merck-y Business, The Case against Mandatory HPV Vaccinations (The Weekly Standard, March 12, 2007)
• Stop Squawking Over Avian Flu (The American Spectator, January 3, 2007)
• The Chicken Littles Were Wrong: The Bird Flu Threat Flew the Coop (The Weekly Standard, December 25, 2006)
• Media Torment (New York Post, September 8, 2006)
• Ketamine and Depression (American Spectator, July 15, 2006)
• Bionics Beats Brain Disorders (Tech Central Station, March 16, 2006)
• Is There a Serious Risk of an Avian Flu Human Pandemic? (CQ Researcher, January 13, 2006)
• No Cause for Tamiflu Terror (Scripps Howard News Service, December 29, 2005)
• New Vaccine Technology Takes Jab at Avian Flu (Tech Central Station, December 7, 2005)
• Fuss and Feathers: Pandemic Panic over the Avian Flu (The Weekly Standard, November 21, 2005)
• There Is No Thimerosal-Autism Conspiracy (Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2005)
• Fear Mongering over Childhood Vaccinations (Scripps Howard News Service, June 30, 2005)
• Immune to Reason (Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2005)
• In Man versus Microbe, Germs Will Lose (Scripps Howard News Service, June 23, 2005)
• Drug Withdrawal a Travesty for MS Sufferers (Scripps Howard News Service, April 28, 2005)
• Lives Left to Save – The Prevention Work Yet to Do in South Asia (National Review Online, January 3, 2005)
• Flu Fables (National Review Online, October 29, 2004)
• Re-Inventing the Flu Vaccine (Tech Central Station, October 21, 2004)
• The Feds’ Flu Shot Fiasco (Scripps Howard News Service, October 7, 2004)
• The Threat of Hospital Infections (Scripps Howard News Service, August 5, 2004)
• Ending Alzheimer’s (Tech Central Station, June 17, 2004)
• Anti-vaccine Activists Get Jabbed (Scripps Howard News Service, March 11, 2004)
• Where Now with Mad Cow? (Scripps Howard News Service, January 29, 2004)
• Not Having a Cow Over Mad Cow – What Gives? (Washington Post Outlook, January 18, 2004)
• An Inoculation against Flu Panic (Scripps Howard News Service, December 25, 2003)
• Flu Misery and Myths (Scripps Howard News Service, October 9, 2003)
• SARS: Post-mortem of a Panic (Scripps Howard News Service, June 19, 2003)
• SARS Vaccine Soon? (Scripps Howard News Service, May 22, 2003)
• SARS Hysteria Must End (Scripps Howard News Service, May 8, 2003)
• Hysteria, Thy Name is SARS (National Review Online, May 7, 2003)
• "Super-Pneumonia" or Super Scare? (Scripps Howard News Service, March 26, 2003)
• The Bacterium that Changed History (The Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2002)
• Hysteria Strain of Ebola Fever (Washington Times, February 8, 2001)
• How Media Made Parkinson’s A ’Man-Made’ Disease (Investor’s Business Daily, February 17, 1999)
• Chicken Little Gets the Flu (The Wall Street Journal, 1998)
• One Flu Over the Chicken’s Nest (1998)
• The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease (The American Spectator, December 1998)
• Ebola Virus: Horror or Hype? (1996)
• Virus Hunters: Life in the Real Hot Zone, Doctors Give Gripping Account of Exotic-Disease Fight (The Washington Times, August 18, 1996)
• How to Understand Scientific Studies and Epidemiology (Consumers’ Research Magazine, June 1993) (Includes related article on risk ratios)
• Leaders & Success: Alexander Langmuir (Investor’s Business Daily, December 16, 1993)
• Fetal Attraction (The American Spectator, July 1992)

Read Michael Fumento’s additional work on swine flu, cancer and AIDS. He also wrote an entire book on AIDS, entitled The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS.

He has a chapter on epidemiology in his book, Science Under Siege. The chapter is entitled "A Fairly Brief, Nonboring Lesson in the Pitfalls of Amateur Epidemiology."