The Lesser-Known Effects of Obesity (from Consumer Guide to Bariatric Surgery)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Saturday, April 4, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. There is an old adage that more weight reduction diets begin in the fitting room of a clothing store than in a physician's office...  Read Full >>

Unfounded Health Scares (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Tuesday, December 23, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. In recent years, Americans have been scared to death by strident claims of "toxins" and "carcinogens" lurking in our environment. But 2008 seems to have produced its own unique bumper crop of silly scares...  Read Full >>

NYC Food Cops' National Agenda (from New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, September 8, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan.  If the city Health Department gets its way, government officials -- local, state and federal -- will soon be deciding what you can and can't eat...  Read Full >>

Toxics (from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Friday, July 25, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Americans -- including some with university teaching posts -- are in the grip of nosophobia...  Read Full >>

Group Not Industry-Funded (from the Dallas Morning News)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Your editorial urging Congress to ban phthalates in toys (despite the fact that they present no health hazard) implied that the only dissenters to the proposed ban are...  Read Full >>

Good Science (from the National Post)
Hysteria over industry-science collaboration and "conflicts of interest"
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, June 18, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The recent proposed Canadian restrictions on products such as baby bottles containing the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is but the latest unscientific legislation made possible in part by a dangerous prevailing assumption...  Read Full >>

ACSH's President Dismisses Harvard Health Letter's Condemnation of Plastic Products as Health Risks
"I fear that you may have misled your readers, causing them needless anxiety"
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Friday, May 23, 2008
New York, NY--May 23, 2008. In a letter responding to Harvard's Dr. Claire McCarthy, Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health, maintains that the use of plastic bottles and other plastic products pose no known hazard to human health...  Read Full >>

ACSH Applauds MN's Gov. Pawlenty for Resisting Chemical Ban
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, May 15, 2008
The American Council on Science and Health sent the following letter to Minnesota's Gov. Pawlenty after reading about his veto of a bill banning two chemicals...  Read Full >>

Chem-Phobia: A Phony Plastics Threat (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, April 28, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Chemical-phobia is in full bloom this spring...  Read Full >>

The Real Scare-Mongers (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, April 17, 2008
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)...  Read Full >>