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The Rhetoric of Junk Science.

By Bates, Christine
Publication: Technical Communication
Date: Sunday, August 1 2004

The Rhetoric of Junk Science

B. Hass and M. Kleine. 2003. Technical communication quarterly 12:267-284.

"[A] biochemist and a rhetorician collaborate to define 'junk science.' They apply that definition as they rhetorically analyze a book that makes strong claims about endocrine disruption

(Our Stolen Future) and a website developed to embarrass those claims ('Our Swollen Future').... [They argue] that junk science and accusations of junk science evince ideological/economic motives and pronounced efforts to construct, or assail, scientific ethos."

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