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Threats Real, Possible, Fake, and Science-Fictional
By Todd Seavey
Publication Date : Friday, June 20, 2008

Our job here is ranking risks, and here's a little exercise in doing so: (1) A Real Risk: Marilyn Larkin provides a balanced New York Academy of Sciences overview of foodborne illnesses: "Health Threats from Domestic and Imported Produce." (2) A Small But Discussion-Worthy Risk: Ryan Evans looks at Read Full >>
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ACSH Morning Dispatch Round-Up: 200th Dispatch and More
By Krystal Ford, Todd Seavey
Publication Date : Monday, June 9, 2008
DISPATCH: Hunger, Mercury, Alcohol, Smoke, and ToenailsNorman Borlaug's op-ed on the fight against hungerACSH trustee Dr. Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University, co-wrote an op-ed addressing the issue of world hunger. In the article, Dr. Borlaug and Peter McPherson acknowledge that
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Dr. Daniel Koshland, RIP
By Todd Seavey
Publication Date : Thursday, July 26, 2007

ACSH was saddened to hear of the death, earlier this week at age eighty-seven after a stroke, of Dr. Daniel Koshland. Beyond being a colleague of and donor to ACSH, Koshland was a veteran of the Manhattan Project, of enzyme and early biotech research at Brookhaven and Berkeley, and of the journal Science, where he was the editor in chief from 1985 to 1995. At Berkeley, he oversaw the reorganization and streamlining of the biology department, and his model of departmental
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Michael Moore's "Sicko" Is Both Prescription and Overdose
By Todd Seavey
Publication Date : Friday, June 29, 2007

For history buffs, the most amazing moment of the new Michael Moore documentary Sicko (his plea for socialized medicine) may be getting to hear the actual moment when most of our current healthcare problems began: Nixon, on tape in the Oval Office, deciding to regulatorily mandate a system of employer-provided health insurance packages in 1971, around the same time that he (a supposed "conservative") decided to freeze wages and prices -- something, thankfully, that is
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Go Hungry Here to Fight Malaria in Africa
By Todd Seavey
Publication Date : Monday, May 7, 2007

This Thursday, May 10, 2007, is Fast Against Malaria Day, when, in an effort that grew out of an idea from investment banker Lance Laifer (who started Hedge Funds vs. Malaria), people around the world have pledged to give up one meal in order to donate the money to buying bed nets to ward off malarial mosquitoes in Africa (you'll find ACSH's Executive Director, Dr. Gilbert Ross, listed among those taking the pledge). The group promises
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Notions for a Fast Food Nation
By Todd Seavey
Publication Date : Friday, November 17, 2006
Fast Food Nation -- in which (as noted earlier this year on HealthFactsAndFears) journalist Eric Schlosser argues that America is having its health and environment ruined by a sinister system of fast food mass-marketing and animal cruelty, all in the name of evil food manufacturers' profits -- has now become a slightly dull film from director Richard Linklater. Linklater and Schlosser answered
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