Science controversies have become left-right wars fought on the internet. These days everything exists, from run-of-the-mill issues such as [(fake) climate change](https://www.heritage.org/cooling-the-climate-hysteria) or extreme numbers of [unsafe vaccines](https://theturtlesbook.com/) children need to receive -- [up to 80 by age 18, including boosters](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11737652/pdf/mm7402a2.pdf), and [COVID vaccines saving lives](https://cdn.fortunejournals.com/articles/a-step-by-step-evaluation-of-the-claim-that-covid-19-vaccines-saved-millions-of-lives-6254.pdf) (hardly, but anyhow), to the [Tylenol-autism dustup](https://naturalnews.com/2025-11-01-texas-declares-war-tylenol-maker-jnj-kenvue.html).

Even people with life experience and common sense have problems judging such controversies; and the internet is where sound science competes with junk science.

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) spent the past few years examining the [methods of four different fields of science](https://www.nas.org/report-series/shifting-sands-keeping-count-of-government-science) that lead to irreproducible (false) evidence used by governments. Flawed methods are big part of what leads to false evidence and junk science. 

***Guess where most of this junk originates? Government-funded academia.***

Junk science and government