Junk Science

Junk Science or Bunk Science (of English junk for " junk ", "junk " or bunk for " nonsense ", " Humbug " and science for " science" ) or under science research, with their results, representatives of economic, religious or political interests try to influence sovereign decisions in their favor.

Stakeholders are also the funders of research ( usually it is financed indirectly through a think tank ), this relation is obscured or at least not manifestly made and explicitly addressed. In this way the results of research to create the impression of objectivity and scientific independence. Your manipulative intent differs Junk Science of pseudo-sciences on the one hand and of ordinary scientific controversies on the other.

As with any controversial debate, the opponents accuse themselves in such disputes often mutually to argue with junk science, although the assessment of the problem, which is at issue in the debate in which science itself is not in dispute.

Conversely, try Stakeholders sometimes, serious scientific work as junk science devalue if their content speaks for a decision that could pose a threat to their interests. For example, the U.S. tobacco industry has portrayed over the years the scientific evidence on the health hazards of passive smoking as junk science.