It looks like Dr. Dustin Ballard, a Marin County Independent columnist and emergency physician at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael, has also caught wind of the scare season. In fact, while addressing excessive fears over minor head bumps following the death of actress Natasha Richardson, he references ACSH as “an advocacy group dedicated to providing sound health information to consumers.” ACSH would like to offer a seat at the table to Dr. Ballard for his efforts to distinguish real fears from alarmism.
