Riskometer Tells You What News Stories Leave Out (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, December 19, 2007
By Jeff Stier. Be careful! It turns out that accidents are a fast-growing cause of death in the country.    Read Full >>

Protect Yourself from Terrorism
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Monday, September 10, 2007
With the sixth anniversary of terrorist attacks approaching, it is easy to feel helpless and scared about what some believe to be an inevitable future attack. But there are things you can do to protect yourself...  Read Full >>

The Mystery of Lung Disease (from the New York Sun)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Tuesday, February 20, 2007
By Jeff Stier. There is no scientific evidence linking exposure to 9/11 dust and diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. That doesn't stop the press and politicians from leaping to conclusions. Take the case of New York Police Officer Cesar Borja...  Read Full >>

Whelan and Stier on Terrorism and Dirty Bombs (from HomelandDefenseWeek.com)
Type : Articles
Publish Date : Thursday, September 14, 2006
Five years after 9/11, the greatest danger remains the possibility of states supplying terrorists with nuclear weapons, which would be far more devastating than hijacked airplanes.   But a so-called "dirty bomb" that uses conventional explosives to spread radiological material is not at all the same thing -- nor as a devastating -- as a true nuclear explosion.   Hear ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan and ACSH associate director Jeff Stier explain the difference here...  Read Full >>

"WTC Cough": Time to Draw Breath (from Spiked-Online)
By Todd Seavey
Publish Date : Friday, September 8, 2006
By Todd Seavey.  The largest study yet of workers who participated in the rescue efforts and clean-up at the site of the World Trade Center attack has been reported as evidence that a spectrum of mysterious health problems were caused by the fumes from the disaster.  In a sense that's true, in that we don’t know the precise nature and cause of all the respiratory ailments reported five years later by participants in the study.  But that is partly a function of the study’s strangeness rather than the fumes' strangeness. Just as the media and politicians should take care not to heighten terrorism’s impact by exaggerating the risk it poses to the public, so too should we be cautious about making an already-nervous population think they have been "poisoned"...  Read Full >>