Amir Attaran

In part 1 of this fact check I examined Brian Dunning's assertions that DDT did not thin eggshells. Responses from Orac: "Dunning should know better", Bug Girl: "Dunning clearly got his information second-hand. And it was bad information.", and Dunning: I think I've repeated that Milloy was not one of my sources enough times. I hadn't even heard of him. which is a rather odd thing to say, because in comments on his podcast Dunning responded to this comment: Yeah, the very fact that you would consider Junk Science a source worthy of citing frankly is enough to treat the entire article with…