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 >>

"Conflict" Chills Research (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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...  Read Full >>

Scary Health Stories (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, February 6, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  If you are a parent (or grandparent) of a young child, you are a target for manipulation by activists (some with scientific degrees)...  Read Full >>

Hostages in the War Against "Chemicals" (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, February 6, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. The fear-mongers have just about everything going for them...  Read Full >>

Doc Frieden's Fried Voodoo (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, January 23, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The city Health Department yesterday passed new regulations forcing some restaurants to post calorie content for all the food on the menu board...  Read Full >>