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 >>

ACSH Welcomes Naderites Resignation
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Monday, May 10, 1999
Americans who value our abundant, affordable, safe and healthy supply of fruits and vegetables should welcome the resignation of the seven special interest groups who had been serving on the EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee (7 Groups Quit Food Panel, April 28).   Read Full >>

ACSH's Dr. Emil Chynn, 'Ground Zero' Volunteer
Publish Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2002
ACSH Scientific Advisor Emil W. Chynn, M.D., a native Manhattanite who lives on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, seems a very busy Renaissance man. He is, for example, a sportsman, a part-time M.B.A. student, a writer, a researcher, an inventor, and a private practitioner of laser surgery for vision correction (Iwant2020.com). On the day of the in-flight attack on the World Trade Center, this ophthalmologist headed purposefully and unselfishly toward “ground zero”—unbidden, unaccompanied, unguided, and ill-equipped. He volunteered there daily for six consecutive days.  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.
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 >>

ACSH's Stier on NPR 12/7 (UPDATED LINK)
Publish Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2005
ACSH associate director Jeff Stier appears on NPR's Talk of the Nation show to discuss health rumors, Dec. 7, 2005 at 3:20pm Eastern -- with the audio available online thereafter.   Read Full >>

Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Overweight
By Ruth Kava, Ph.D., R.D.
Publish Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004
These issues and more are considered in a recent publication by the American Dietetic Association — Childhood and Adolescent Overweight: The Health Professional's Guide to Identification, Treatment, and Prevention.  Read Full >>

After Some 100 Million Deaths—What's Next?
By K. H. Ginzel
Edited by Ashlee Dunston
Publish Date: Monday, October 1, 2001
To attempt an answer to this question, we must first assess the current situation. As I see it, it is bleak to the extreme.   Read Full >>

Agricultural Biotechnology: Overregulated and Underappreciated (from Issues in Science & Technology)
By Henry I. Miller, M.D., and Gregory Conko
Publish Date: Saturday, January 1, 2005
The application of recombinant DNA technology, or gene splicing, to agriculture and food production, once highly touted as having huge public health and commercial potential, has been paradoxically disappointing...  Read Full >>

AIDS, Africa, and Drug Prices
By Richard Ryan
Publish Date: Friday, November 1, 2002
Is it sound policy or just politics that's pushing pharmaceutical companies to provide cheap AIDS drugs to African nations?  Read Full >>

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