Taxpayer-Paid Prayer? (from the New York Post)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, November 16, 2009
By Jeff Stier. It turns out that government-run health insurance means politician-decided health benefits...  Read Full >>

Christian Science and Health Reform (from FutureofCapitalism.com)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Tuesday, November 3, 2009
By Jeff Stier. The Los Angeles Times draws attention to news that, as part of the health-care overhaul, "A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine"...  Read Full >>

An Empty Nod to Tort Reform (from the American)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, September 24, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  In an apparent attempt to sway at least one undecided Republican senator to sign on to his healthcare reform program...  Read Full >>

Meryl Streep's Junk Science (from the National Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
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 >>

Activism, Mendacity, and Pathological Science (from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
By Henry Miller
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Tuesday, September 1, 2009
By Henry I. Miller, M.D.  Consumers are increasingly being exposed to what chemistry Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir dubbed “pathological science,” the “science of things that aren’t so”...  Read Full >>