Advancement of Sound Science Center
The Advancement of Sound Science Center (TASSC), formerly the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, is an industry-funded lobby group which promotes the idea that environmental science on issues including smoking, pesticides and global warming is "junk science", which should be replaced by "sound science". It was operated by Steven Milloy.[1]
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[edit] History
TASSC was created in 1993 by the APCO Worldwide public relations firm, and was funded by tobacco company Philip Morris (now Altria) to help fight against smoking regulations.[2] TASSC's links to the tobacco industry were minimized as part of APCO's strategy to "establish an image of a national grassroots coalition."[3] The group has been described as an effort by tobacco companies who "wanted to cast grave doubts on government scientists' capacity to produce fair research", and who "quietly formed a coalition of industries that would challenge every aspect of government science, from its studies of global warming to auto safety."[4]
[edit] Science advisors and board members
- Garrey Carruthers, former governor of New Mexico, served as chairman of TASSC.[5]
- Mickey Edwards, former Republican congressman, was appointed chair of TASSC's advisory board in 1995.[6]
- Frederick Seitz, former United States National Academy of Sciences President and prominent climate change denier, served on the scientific advisory board,[7] which had 8 members.[3]
- Michael Fumento – advisory board member[5]
- Bruce Ames – advisory board member[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Thacker, Paul D. (27 January 2006). "Smoked Out: Pundit For Hire". The New Republic (The New Republic): p. 1. Archived from the original on 19 July 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060719211120/http://www.freepress.net/news/print.php?id=13581. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ^ Ong EK, Glantz SA (November 2001). "Constructing "sound science" and "good epidemiology": tobacco, lawyers, and public relations firms". Am J Public Health 91 (11): 1749–57. doi:10.2105/AJPH.91.11.1749. PMC 1446868. PMID 11684593. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11684593.
- ^ a b Monbiot, George (19 September 2006). "The Denial Industry". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/19/ethicalliving.g2. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ^ Closing of the Presidential Mind, Franklin Foer, tnr.com, 12 July 2004
- ^ a b c About TASSC, TASSC.org, 1998. Archived website viewed at www.archive.org on 7 July 2007.
- ^ TASSC, 16 August 1995, Sound Science Coalition Names Former Congressman Mickey Edwards to Lead Advisory Committee
- ^ New York Times, 26 April 1998, INDUSTRIAL GROUP PLANS TO BATTLE CLIMATE TREATY,
[edit] External links
- TASSC website from 1998 (now defunct, but archived at archive.org.)
