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A Scientifically Baseless Attack On Phthalates
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publication Date : Friday, February 18, 2011

Unfounded health scares do nothing to protect the public and ultimately cause more harm than good.
For example, an article posted recently on the Mother Nature Network attacks everyday chemicals called phthalates. This group of plasticizing chemicals can be found in a many common products, ranging from children’s toys to medical equipment
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Remembering Dr. Norman Borlaug
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publication Date : Sunday, September 13, 2009

Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate, Green Revolution pioneer, and a founding Director of the American Council on Science and Health in 1978, died this weekend, at age ninety-five. Norman, by dramatically increasing the world's food supply, is credited with saving over one billion lives. His early work in Mexico on developing and cultivating high-yielding wheat, resistant to weather conditions and other external threats, turned that country from a wheat importer to a wheat exporter in just a
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Julia Child vs. Meryl Streep
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publication Date : Saturday, August 29, 2009

In a recent, totally outrageous interview published in the UK paper The Telegraph, actress Meryl Streep, star of Julie & Julia, maligns and misrepresents the real-life version of the character she plays, famed chef Julia Child.And in the process she defames the organization I head up, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).Ms. Streep actually calls Julia Child "a pawn of big business." You can hardly get more outrageous than that.I knew Julia Child.
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Atrazine: NYT Terrifies Over "Weed Killers" in Water
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publication Date : Saturday, August 22, 2009

All the news that's fit to scare. That was the thrust of this weekend's New York Times article by Charles Duhigg entitled "Toxic Waters: Debating Just How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass." As president of the American Council on Science and Health, I have been following environmental and health media articles for some three decades -- seeing how they measure up in terms of
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Mount Sinai's Scare Campaign (and John Stossel's reaction)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publication Date : Wednesday, August 19, 2009
ACSH's view on this issue was noted by John Stossel on his blog today:It is nothing new for junk science to make it onto the New York Times op-ed page. But some agendas are so far outside the mainstream they have to buy their way onto the page. That's what the Mount Sinai School of Medicine did in buying a platform for their Dr. Philip Landrigan, an activist who has
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