Junk Science Kills (from the New York Post and The Week)
Who'll Apologize to Dead Kids?
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, February 4, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. The media gave big headlines to this week's stories on a prestigious British medical publication's retraction of an article that had claimed to show a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism. Yet the coverage of the Lancet affair didn't truly convey the outrageousness of the original publication or the gravity of its consequences...  Read Full >>

FDA Decision on Chemical BPA Gets Mixed Review
"ACSH scientists are glad a ban was avoided but remain disappointed."
Type : Press Release
Publish Date : Friday, January 15, 2010
ACSH scientists are glad a ban was avoided but remain disappointed...  Read Full >>

NYC's School Snack Attack Is an Insane A-Salt (from the Daily News)
New vending machine rules make no sense
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Friday, October 9, 2009
By Dr. Gilbet Ross.  This week, the city's Department of Education is rolling out new rules for beverage and snack-food vending machines...  Read Full >>

Toys, Lead, and Unintended Consequences (from National Review Online)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, September 14, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  With enforcement of the misleadingly named Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) now fully in place...  Read Full >>

Meryl Streep's Junk Science (from the National Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, September 2, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Meryl Streep, star of the movie Julie & Julia, lashed out this past weekend at the world-famous chef she portrays on screen. In an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Ms. Streep claims that Julia Child's cuisine caused heart disease and calls Child "a pawn of big business." In the process, she attempts to smear the organization I head up, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)...  Read Full >>