Chem-Phobia: A Phony Plastics Threat (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Posted: Monday, April 28, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Chemical-phobia is in full bloom this spring...   Read Full >>

Plastic Hysteria Strikes Again (from the Washington Times) UPDATED
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008
By Gilbert Ross, M.D. A new health scare -- over the safe and useful plastic component, bisphenol-A (BPA) -- has taken wing...  Read Full >>

Obama's Health (from HuffingtonPost.com)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008
By Jeff Stier. The fact that Sen. Obama was a smoker is old news, since he quit. Right? Think again...   Read Full >>

The Real Scare-Mongers (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Michael F. Jacobson's Monday letter, "The perils of corporate funding," is a misinformed, scurrilous, ad hominem attack on me and the group I head, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)...  Read Full >>

Paper Bags: Roach City (from New York Post)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
By Jeff Stier. Get your plastic grocery bags while you can. By Earth Day, that is, Tuesday, the national chain Whole Foods Market will no longer offer shoppers plastic bags...  Read Full >>

Response to an Attack on "Conflicts of Interest" (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Posted: Saturday, April 12, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Dr. Kassirer persistently targets financial conflicts while ignoring the many other potential sources of lack of scientific objectivity...  Read Full >>

"Conflict" Chills Research (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Posted: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
By Elizabeth Whelan. A new scientific McCarthyism is alive and well in America today. Nowadays, the inquiring mantras come from journal editors and government panel chairmen. It goes like this...  Read Full >>