ACSH Elects New Members to Its Board of Trustees
Publish Date: Thursday, June 29, 2006
In a meeting held June 28, 2006, ACSH selected a new, expanded Board of Trustees. "We are delighted to have such an illustrious group of scientists, physicians, attorneys, and policy makers assume the governance of ACSH," said ACSH founder and president -- and trustee -- Dr. Elizabeth Whelan...  Read Full >>

ACSH Holiday Dinner Menu
Reprint
Publish Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
"No human diet can be free of naturally occurring chemicals that are rodent carcinogens. Of the chemicals that people eat, 99.99% are natural." — Bruce Ames, Ph.D. and Lois Swirsky Gold, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley  Read Full >>

ACSH on NPR
Stier vs. Environmental Working Group
By Jeff Stier
Publish Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2002
ACSH Associate Director, Jeff Stier recently participated in a debate against the Environmental Working Group on National Public Radio's Justice Talking. Below is a brief summary of his remarks.  Read Full >>

ACSH Petitions EPA to Stop Declaring Chemicals "Carcinogens" Based on Rodent Tests Alone
Publish Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2005
New York, NY -- August 24, 2005. The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) today petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to eliminate "junk science" from the process by which it determines whether a substance is likely to cause cancer in humans...  Read Full >>

ACSH responds to criticism of Blue Ribbon Panel's Report on Phthalates
Publish Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) is disappointed, but not surprised, by activists continued attempts to discredit a panel of well-respected, nationally and internationally recognized scientific and medical professionals, headed by the former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop. Once again, there has been an attempt to shift attention from sound science to misrepresentations and half-truths.  Read Full >>

ACSH Statement for Senate Hearing on FDA Regulation of Tobacco
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., Gilbert Ross, M.D., Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007
We believe, as experts in the field of tobacco-related health effects and public health policy, that this bill would unnecessarily disregard a large and growing body of scientific evidence pertaining to the relative dangers posed by smoking and smokeless tobacco...  Read Full >>

ACSH Statement on HRT
Publish Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Recent reports in the medical literature have profoundly shaken the popular and medical wisdom which held that estrogen-progestin combination therapy enhances life and health for women in the post-menopausal years. Women are relatively free from heart disease, bone loss, vaginal dryness and hot flashes prior to menopause, but manifest increased risk for such ailments after menopause. Therefore, it seemed intuitively obvious that a replenishing of the naturally diminished supply of estrogen and progesterone would restore women to their earlier, lower risk profile.   Read Full >>

ACSH Statement on New York Times Story Alleging That Tuna Is "Contaminated" with Dangerous Levels of Mercury
Publish Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
There are no legitimate health concerns associated with eating the tuna available today -- in sushi or other forms...  Read Full >>

ACSH Taking on a Conventional Wisdom: Why Disclosure of Research Funding is Detrimental to Good Science:
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Thursday, February 4, 1999
Ralph King Jr.'s article ("Medical Journals Rarely Disclose Researchers' Ties," 2/2/98) calls for further analysis of the assertion, by the journal Epidemiology's Kenneth Rothman, that today's conventional wisdom in favor of disclosing corporate funding of research is a "new McCarthyism."   Read Full >>

ACSH to Mark Green: Protect ¬Don't Frighten¬ New Yorkers
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999
David M. Herszenhorn's June 15 article, "Bid to Alter Lead Paint Law Splits Speaker and Council," relies on the claim that "as many as 30,000 city children suffer lead poisoning." In fact, this alarmist assertion, originally employed by New York City Public Advocate Mark Green, incorrectly refers to slightly elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) as "lead poisoning." Many of the children cited have BLLs of 10 micrograms per deciliter-- a level that, according to the Center for Disease Control, does not require medical attention. Lead poisoning is a term reserved for the extremely rare and toxic condition associated with BLLs upwards of 40 micrograms per deciliter.  Read Full >>