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Here at ACSH we’ve complained for years that health-related stories in the popular media often pay scant attention to the scientific accuracy and importance of the studies they report on. For example, we’ve seen preliminary studies reported at scientific meetings given equal weight with studies that have undergone peer review and are published in respected scientific journals.

Energy needs worldwide are expected to increase for the foreseeable future, but fuel supplies are limited.

New York, NY -- March 27, 2009. The end of this month marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident -- and for too long, the tiny handful of such mishaps have been used to exaggerate the dangers of nuclear power.

“If it smells bad, it’s bad; if it smells good, it’s bad,” says Aileen Gagney, asthma and environmental health manager with the American Lung Association in Seattle. (1) Obviously then, the key to a healthy life is to have no smells around you. How unfortunate, since we are excellent smellers!

This piece first appeared on Forbes.com.

Should we be wary of eating red meat? Taken at face value, a new study suggests that might be a good idea -- but a more careful consideration does not.
A report in the March 23 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine describes a very large study -- over half a million people initially aged fifty-one to seventy-one years -- who reported their diets at the study's outset and were then followed for ten years. Over 300,000 men and over 200,000 women participated in the study. During the follow-up period approximately 48,000 men and 23,000 women died.

This piece first appeared in the UK's Guardian newspaper.

This piece first appeared in the Washington Times.
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry has replaced the tobacco cartel as the favorite punching bag of Congress and litigators over the last few years. The pipeline of new drugs has slowed to a crawl as the risk-averse Food and Drug Administration becomes more cautious by the day.

The use of food technology to solve public health problems has a long and impressive history.