"The science is very rigorous and this really does give a green light to MMR [the vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella]...The science on this issue is over; the scientific debate is dead."
Dr. Anna Donald, hired by the British Medical Association to review vaccine research, after completion of the review (reported by the Associated Press, June 12). Also see ACSH's report on vaccines. Our report was a retort to increasingly popular anti-vaccination scare campaigns.
"The time has come for scientists to speak out on the role of animal experiments what they are and what they are not...This carcinogen du jour approach is unnecessarily alarming to people."
ACSH President Elizabeth Whelan on the experiments that led to the dubious acrylamide-in-food scare (as reported in the Washington Post June 7).
"Mandatory labeling will only frighten consumers...Labeling implies that biotechnology products are unsafe."
Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services (as reported by the Associated Press, June 10).