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Junk Science Kills (from the New York Post)
February 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 Article >>

	To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. —Charles Darwin

Determining the Benefits of the New York City Trans Fat Ban (from Annals of Internal Medicine)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Angell and colleagues want to be congratulated for finding that their own regulatory approach has succeeded... Read Full Article >>

Conflict of Interest (from Medical Progress Today)
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The pharmaceutical industry is a powerful innovative force, both in the creation of new life-saving technologies and the underwriting of academic medical research. Yet there is now a sweeping "conflicts of interest" movement aimed squarely at curtailing academic-industry collaboration in biomedical research... Read Full Article >>

Testimony: "Food Policy in New York State"
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan. Testimony delivered January 22, 2010 at a Public Hearing before the New York Senate Committee on Health... Read Full Article >>

FDA Decision on Chemical BPA Gets Mixed Review
ACSH scientists are glad a ban was avoided but remain disappointed... Read Full Article >>

Junk Medicine (from the Weekly Standard)
By Jeff Stier.  Book review: "Denialism" by Michael Specter: It is popular among politicians on both sides of the aisle and the public to blame corporations, capitalism, and even science itself for our ills... Read Full Article >>

Beauty in the Eye...of the Beanpole (from New York Post)
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Smith's extremely well-written commentary, "Fat Chance," is excellent... Read Full Article >>

Why Drug 'Reimportation' Won't Die
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  As a threat to our nation's security, allowing imported drugs into our pharmacies ranks just below terrorism... Read Full Article >>

Lancet Snaps Fingers to Make New Drugs Appear (from TCSDaily.com)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The pharmaceutical industry gets blamed for many flaws in America's healthcare system. Witness an editorial in last week's The Lancet... Read Full Article >>

With a New Ideologue in Charge, It's (Bad) Business as Usual at EPA (from Investor's Business Daily)
By Henry Miller and Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The only things being protected these days by the Environmental Protection Agency are the insupportable, unscientific views of radical activists... Read Full Article >>

Taxpayer-Paid Prayer? (from the New York Post)
By Jeff Stier. It turns out that government-run health insurance means politician-decided health benefits... Read Full Article >>

Patients Will Feel Feds' Bullying (from the Orange County Register)
By Henry Miller and Jeff Stier.  The Pelosi health care juggernaut, if it becomes law, will hurt critical industries and endanger all Americans... Read Full Article >>

Stop the (Health Reform) Juggernaut (from Forbes.com)
By Henry I. Miller and Jeff Stier.  Politics has been called the art of the possible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's brand of politics might be dubbed the art of... Read Full Article >>

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