Politics has overtaken science at the EPA (The Daily Caller)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Dr. Gilbert Ross. Science depends on rigid observation and independent replication. So what happens when government bureaucrats — seeking to promote a political agenda while acting under the guise of protecting the environment and public health — systematically subordinate sound scientific principles to their own goals?   Read Full >>

What's Really Causing Childhood Obesity? (Forbes.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, July 6, 2011
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. An alarming one-third of American children are overweight or obese. It's a rate that's climbed three times as high as it was even a generation ago, and the hunt is on to identify the culprit and root it out.  Read Full >>

Junk Science Week: Toxic terrorists ignore organic food threat (Financial Post)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, June 15, 2011
By Gilbert Ross. A respected newspaper notes the latest toll among Europeans of a virulent strain of the bacterium E. coli, the source of which has recently been determined to be sprouts from an organic farm in Germany. In the same newspaper, a few pages distant, a credulous journalist has in essence copied and pasted another press release from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a U.S. activist organization, warning us yet again about the traces of pesticide residues on their so-called “Dirty Dozen” list of fruits and vegetables.  Read Full >>

Immunity: when it's smart to go with the herd (Guardian)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D., Dr. Henry Miller
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, June 13, 2011
By Dr. Henry Miller and Dr. Gilbert Ross. Infectious diseases that used to claim the lives of one in six children before their fifth year are making an alarming comeback in the US. The culprits are parents who should know better – and the politicians who bend over backwards to accommodate them.   Read Full >>

The Hijacking of Earth Day (The American Spectator)
A Further Perspective
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, May 11, 2011
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. The last weekend in April saw the confluence of Earth Day and World Malaria Day. The very first Earth Day back in 1970 found many of us devoted to saving the world from polluting corporations and their toxic smog. And in fact, over the course of the next two decades or so, major strides were made in cleaning up our air and water.  Read Full >>