Declaring War on Salt (from the Washington Times)
Mayor Bloomberg, M.D., launches a dishonest assault
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, February 17, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's latest public health initiative is to get Americans to cut their salt consumption...  Read Full >>

Junk Science Kills (from the New York Post and The Week)
Who'll Apologize to Dead Kids?
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, February 4, 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 >>

Conflict of Interest (from Medical Progress Today)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, January 28, 2010
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 >>

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

Beauty in the Eye...of the Beanpole (from New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, January 14, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Smith's extremely well-written commentary, "Fat Chance," is excellent...  Read Full >>

Meryl Streep's Junk Science (from the National Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, September 2, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Meryl Streep, star of the movie Julie & Julia, lashed out this past weekend at the world-famous chef she portrays on screen. In an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Ms. Streep claims that Julia Child's cuisine caused heart disease and calls Child "a pawn of big business." In the process, she attempts to smear the organization I head up, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)...  Read Full >>

FDA Smoke Screen on E-Cigarettes (from the Washington Times)
Cigarette substitute produces no deadly smoke
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, August 6, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  At a time when the government is ostensibly trying to cut health costs, why is it trying to ban something that might help...  Read Full >>

The Latest Toxin Activists Want to Ban (from Forbes.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, June 24, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The "toxin du jour" these days is bisphenol A, otherwise known as BPA. Environmental activists claim BPA harms babies...  Read Full >>

One Flu Over the Piggy's Nest (from Wall Street Journal)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Tuesday, April 28, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The news is a-chatter about swine flu. Is a pandemic pending--where all of us are at risk of disease and death? There are more questions than answers right now. Here are a few of them...  Read Full >>

A Bogus "Anti-Cigarette" Bill (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, April 6, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. A law ordering the Food and Drug Ad ministration to regulate cigarettes is moving through Congress -- but is it truly good for public health? Hint: Cigarette maker Altria (formerly Philip Morris) is one of the bill's strongest supporters  Read Full >>