Chemicals, Cancer And Claptrap (from Forbes.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., and Dr. Henry I. Miller
Publish Date : Wednesday, June 2, 2010
By Drs. Henry I. Miller and Elizabeth Whelan. President Barack Obama's cancer panel report is a travesty, a paragon of political correctness and unscientific, naive speculation and misinterpretation.  Read Full >>

No oil spills with the nuclear option (from the Guardian)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., and Henry Miller
Publish Date : Sunday, May 23, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan and Dr. Henry Miller. Nuclear power is a safer, more environmentally friendly source of electricity. So why does the US still rely on coal and oil instead?  Read Full >>

The truth about chemicals (from the Daily Caller)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Sunday, May 23, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. We're witnessing an assault on science, as activists attack phthalates and other chemicals that have been used in household products for decades without evidence of human harm.  Read Full >>

Crying Wolf about 'Chemicals' and Cancer (from NRO's Critical Condition)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Friday, May 14, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. The President's Cancer Panel's recent report on the "environmental" causes of cancer is a scientific travesty constructed on a number of false premises.  Read Full >>

Precaution Without Principle (Forbes.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., and Henry I. Miller
Publish Date : Wednesday, May 5, 2010
By Drs. Elizabeth Whelan and Henry I. Miller. A proposal by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Schumer and Edward Markey to ban the chemical bisphenol-A from food and drink containers has more to do with public relations than public health.   Read Full >>

On Earth Day, praise BPA (The Daily Caller)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, April 22, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. In the 40 years since the first Earth Day, the “Green Movement” has migrated far beyond the prevention of polluted lakes and streams and emissions from coal-burning plants to take on scientifically-shakier targets: allegedly harmful substances in food and consumer products.   Read Full >>

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 >>