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Claims of Industry Tampering with Science Are Overblown
April 2008
Scientific progress has long benefited from collaboration between science and business -- so concludes a new report from the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a non-profit group critical of unscientific claims. Nevertheless, self-appointed "consumer advocacy" groups now routinely assert that science is being perverted by scientists' ties to industry and point to a handful of scandals to make their case -- despite the lack of evidence showing that ties to industry are especially corrupting.
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Scientists Honor Top Science Op-Ed Writer: Henry I. Miller
New York, NY -- May 7, 2008. The American Council on Science and Health today presents the first Henry I. Miller Award for Excellence in Public Health Education...
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Chem-Phobia: A Phony Plastics Threat (from the New York Post)
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Chemical-phobia is in full bloom this spring...
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Plastic Hysteria Strikes Again (from the Washington Times) UPDATED
By Gilbert Ross, M.D. A new health scare -- over the safe and useful plastic component, bisphenol-A (BPA) -- has taken wing...
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Obama's Health (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Jeff Stier. The fact that Sen. Obama was a smoker is old news, since he quit. Right? Think again...
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The Real Scare-Mongers (from the Washington Times)
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Michael F. Jacobson's Monday letter, "The perils of corporate funding," is a misinformed, scurrilous, ad hominem attack on me and the group I head, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)...
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Paper Bags: Roach City (from New York Post)
By Jeff Stier. Get your plastic grocery bags while you can. By Earth Day, that is, Tuesday, the national chain Whole Foods Market will no longer offer shoppers plastic bags...
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Response to an Attack on "Conflicts of Interest" (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Dr. Kassirer persistently targets financial conflicts while ignoring the many other potential sources of lack of scientific objectivity...
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"Conflict" Chills Research (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth Whelan. A new scientific McCarthyism is alive and well in America today. Nowadays, the inquiring mantras come from journal editors and government panel chairmen. It goes like this...
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Sick Kids Misused in Smoke Ads (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Jeff Stier. Turns out the truth doesn't matter. The New York City Health Department is standing by TV ads that show children allegedly sickened by exposure to second hand smoke...
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Jumping Ship from the Rats (from the American Spectator blog)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. We won! That is, the forces of science-based public health policy seem to have won...
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Big Picture of Flu Vaccination (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. While the total number of youngsters who succumb to the flu is not large, and it is unclear how many lives would be saved by the vaccine, that is beside the point...
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Anti-Chemical Hysteria (from the New Jersey Star-Ledger)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Bisphenol-A, a polycarbonate chemical in plastic bottles (and many other products), and phthalates, generally used to make plastic softer and flexible, have been in wide use for about fifty years...
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FDA Supreme, for Now (from the Washington Times)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February that manufacturers of FDA-approved medical devices cannot be held liable for defects in design or malfunction, unless the company lied in their application for approval. This is good news for consumers and for public health...
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