An Empty Nod to Tort Reform (from the American)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Posted: 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 >>

Phthalate Risks, Phthalate Regulation, and Public Health: A Review (from Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health)
Edited by Michael Kamrin
Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2009
By Michael A. Kamrin, Ph.D. An overview of the facts and health-scare exaggerations related to the chemicals called phthalates...  Read Full >>

Toys, Lead, and Unintended Consequences (from National Review Online)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2009
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  With enforcement of the misleadingly named Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) now fully in place...  Read Full >>

FDA's Drug and E-Cigarette Warnings Counterproductive (from The Hill)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2009
By Jeff Stier. A major policy shift is underway, and it is bound to have a dangerous unintended consequence...  Read Full >>

ACSH MOURNS THE PASSING OF ONE OF ITS FOUNDING DIRECTORS, NOBEL LAUREATE DR. NORMAN BORLAUG, 1914-2009
Posted: Sunday, September 13, 2009
Read Dr. Elizabeth Whelan's "Remembering Dr. Norman Borlaug."   Read Full >>

We Can Be Too Safe (from the Washington Times)
Overdosed on pharmaceutical regulation
By Jeff Stier, Esq., Henry Miller
Posted: Sunday, September 13, 2009
By Dr. Henry I. Miller and Jeff Stier.  Greater safety is not synonymous with more stringent regulation...  Read Full >>

Organic Wars Rage Anew
"no nutritional difference between organic and conventional food"
Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2009
New York, NY -- September 10, 2009.  In late July, a study commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Authority found that there was no nutritional difference between organic and conventional food. This is consistent with prior studies, but the organic food industry has convinced many people that their products are more nutritious...  Read Full >>

A Dangerous Cost-Cutting Prescription (from Forbes.com)
In health care, more isn't always better, especially in terms of lowering overall costs.
By Jeff Stier, Esq., Henry Miller
Posted: Monday, September 7, 2009
By Henry I. Miller and Jeff Stier. Health care reform is intended to control spending, expand coverage and protect consumers. It’s hard to argue with those goals, but...  Read Full >>

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