Support, Disdain for Flu Shots (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Monday, October 6, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The 1980s Japanese experience -- wherein a requirement that Japanese schoolchildren get vaccinated against the flu led to a dramatic reduction in the death toll among seniors -- should have led our own CDC to...  Read Full >>

Alarmist and Unscientific Claims on Toy Safety (from the Denver Post)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Saturday, August 30, 2008
By Jeff Stier. Vague feelings should not form the basis of government bans...  Read Full >>

Worried About Vaccine Fears (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Monday, August 18, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  It would be impossible to get unanimity on any medical topic. But all pediatric and vaccine experts, as well as all federal health officials, advocate vaccination of preteen and young teen girls against human papilloma virus...  Read Full >>

Group Not Industry-Funded (from the Dallas Morning News)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Your editorial urging Congress to ban phthalates in toys (despite the fact that they present no health hazard) implied that the only dissenters to the proposed ban are...  Read Full >>

ACSH's President Dismisses Harvard Health Letter's Condemnation of Plastic Products as Health Risks
"I fear that you may have misled your readers, causing them needless anxiety"
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Friday, May 23, 2008
New York, NY--May 23, 2008. In a letter responding to Harvard's Dr. Claire McCarthy, Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health, maintains that the use of plastic bottles and other plastic products pose no known hazard to human health...  Read Full >>