Skip to main content
Toggle navigation
Home
About
About ACSH
Our Team
Financials
Donate
Publications
All Publications
Priorities Magazine Spring 2018
The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It
Priorities Magazine Winter 2018
Priorities Magazine Fall 2017
Little Black Book of Junk Science
Priorities Magazine Winter 2017
Should You Worry About Artificial Flavors Or Colors?
Should You Worry About Artificial Sweeteners?
Summer Health and Safety Tips
How Toxic Terrorists Scare You With Science Terms
Adult Immunization: The Need for Enhanced Utilization
Should You Worry About Salt?
Priorities Magazine Spring 2016
IARC Diesel Exhaust & Lung Cancer: An Analysis
Teflon and Human Health: Do the Charges Stick?
Helping Smokers Quit: The Science Behind Tobacco Harm Reduction
Irradiated Foods
Foods Are Not Cigarettes: Why Tobacco Lawsuits Are Not a Model for Obesity Lawsuits
The Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Review
Are "Low Dose" Health Effects of Chemicals Real?
The Effects of Nicotine on Human Health
Traditional Holiday Dinner Replete with Natural Carcinogens - Even Organic Thanksgiving Dinners
A Primer On Dental Care: Quality and Quackery
Nuclear Energy and Health And the Benefits of Low-Dose Radiation Hormesis
Priorities in Caring for Your Children: A Primer for Parents
Endocrine Disrupters: A Scientific Perspective
Good Stories, Bad Science: A Guide for Journalists to the Health Claims of "Consumer Activist" Groups
A Comparison of the Health Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Tobacco Use in America
Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Health
Irradiated Foods Fifth Edition
Media/Contact
Newsletter
Write For Us
What I'm Reading (Jan. 17)
Foreign Policy's Contrarian Take on War and Violence Is Wrong
5 Things You Might Not Know About Heroin
JAMA Spotlights Conflicts of Interest in 'Anti-Meat'...
Can Medicines Unintentionally Change Our Behavior?
The Atlantic Is Nostalgic for the Anti-Alcohol Prohibition Era
Pink, Orange and Green Urine & a Color Chemistry Lesson? Oui
Major Healthcare Institutions Ignore The Need For Transparency
New Study Says Poor Sleep Not Linked to Migraines, But CPAP Helps Me
Do We Operate Too Much or Too Little?
CBS Los Angeles Discusses GMOs with Anti-Vaxxer Zen Honeycutt
Phoney Boney: Why 'Bone Broth' is Just Expensive Stock
Chemicals & Chemistry
Pink, Orange and Green Urine & a Color Chemistry Lesson? Oui
Esters: Nature's Parfumerie
BPA Alarmists Are Beating A Dead Monomer - Enough Already
Chemophobia: Nearly 40% of Europeans Want a Chemical-Free World
Alliance for Risk Assessment Workshop
Gold: Nobility, Lousy Drugs and a $666 Douche Burger. Another Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
Man Boobs: Is 'Victor's Secret' The Next Cottage Industry For Male Pot Smokers?
All the Leaves Are Brown: Chemistry Lesson Inspired By The Mamas And The Papas
More articles
Food & Nutrition
JAMA Spotlights Conflicts of Interest in 'Anti-Meat' Advocates. Are We Surprised?
Phoney Boney: Why 'Bone Broth' is Just Expensive Stock
New Nitrite Meat Cancer Scare Is A Bunch Of Baloney
In Losing Weight, What is More Effective, Exercise or Fewer Calories?
CSPI Fundraising Letter Is Full of Biomedical Misinformation
Will 'The Game Changers’ Change Your Game?
Dueling Visions of Tomorrow's World
Calorie Counts on Menus Have Virtually No Impact On What We Eat
More articles
Biomedicine & Biotech
How to Make Money by Spreading Anti-GMO Propaganda
Release the Franken-Nuts! GMO Chestnut Trees May Repopulate Forests
The Economic Conundrum for Antibacterial Drugs
Much of the Buzz About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Is Wrong
NYT's Eric Lipton Defends Anti-Vaxxers as Measles Ravages Europe
Electrocardiograms Can Predict Our Gender And Maybe Our Age - Can It Tell Our Future?
Can We Blame Our Behavior On Our Genes? Bad Genes!
Immunotherapy for Migraines: Attack of the Antibodies
More articles
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
5 Things You Might Not Know About Heroin
BARDA, Paratek and Pull Incentives: Funding Antibiotic Research?
4 Prescription Drugs People Love
Wake Up! There's A New Sleeping Pill
Why 'Walmart Insulin' Can Be Dangerous
IV Tylenol As Good As Moose Urine For Post-Op Pain Control
'New' Opioid Crisis: Dr. Vanila Singh Warns of Adulterated Street Drugs
Antibiotics: Innovation or Clinical Utility?
More articles
Policy & Ethics
Major Healthcare Institutions Ignore The Need For Transparency
Seattle Gets One Right: Schools Ban Students Lacking Measles Vaccination
More Hot Air: Vaping Flavor Bans and U-Haul's Anti-Nicotine Discrimination
1 in 8 People, Aged 21-25, Admit Driving While on Marijuana. We Need a Public Health Campaign Against It.
Don't Force Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids. Incentivize Them to Do It
Blame and Claim: Can We Fix America's Uniquely Litigious Culture?
USRTK, Carey Gillam Collaborated with Monsanto Plaintiff Attorney Charged with Extortion
Do We Have the Right to Eliminate a Species?
More articles
Harm Reduction
Driving with Distraction
Vaping: Does the American Lung Association Have a Financial Conflict of Interest?
Often Wrong, Never In Doubt
ACSH Explains: Measuring Particulate Matter and Health
Evil Corporations or Rogue Individuals? It makes a difference.
Drawing Back The Curtain On Facebook's Vaccination Advertising
The Darkside of Healthcare Consolidation
Put That In Your Pipe And (Don't) Smoke It! Fentanyl Now In Vaping Cartridges
More articles
Disease
Can Medicines Unintentionally Change Our Behavior?
New Study Says Poor Sleep Not Linked to Migraines, But CPAP Helps Me
Do We Operate Too Much or Too Little?
CBS Los Angeles Discusses GMOs with Anti-Vaxxer Zen Honeycutt
Body Heat: A Closer Look at Temperature
Penny of Prevention Doesn't Seem to Produce a Pound of Cure. NEJM's Hot-spotting Study
Can A New Study Solve J&J's Talc Problem?
Globally, 12% of Cancers Are Due to Infectious Disease
More articles
Mental Health & Society
Fertility Rate Hits All-Time Low, But U.S. on Track for 400 Million in 2050s
Don't Abolish Billionaires. The World Is a Better Place Because of Them
Traffic Violence: Elizabeth Warren Redefines 'Car Accident'
Fix America's Workaholic Culture: Make Every Weekend Three Days Long
Lundy Bancroft: An Anti-Vaxxer Who Thinks All Men Are Abusers
Scientific American Says 5G Is Dangerous, Vegetables Are Junk Food
Conspiracy Theories Aren't on the Rise
Suicides Surge by 12% in UK, But They Can Be Prevented
More articles
Other Science News
What I'm Reading (Jan. 17)
Foreign Policy's Contrarian Take on War and Violence Is Wrong
What I'm Reading (Jan. 10)
What I'm Reading (Jan. 3)
What I Am Reading December 27th
Top 10 Junk Science and Bogus Health Claims ACSH Debunked in 2019
Why is Government Funded Research Not Freely Available?
What I'm Reading (Dec. 20)
More articles
Parents & Kids
95% of Baby Food Tainted with Toxic Metals? Don't Panic
Are Immunization Schedules Evidence-Based?
Bedtime Stories in the Digital Age
Are Home Births Safe? Canadian Midwives Say Yes
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Language is an Evolutionary Force
Do 3D Scans Show More Trauma To Baby's Head At Birth Than We Knew?
U.S. Births Hit Lowest Number in 32 Years
OshKosh B’gosh! 'Green America' Wants Your Kids To Go Naked
More articles
