A December 10, 2007 entry on Wes Phillips' blog plugged ACSH's Riskometer:

What are the chances of your dying from various causes? Riskometer tells you.
"Why use death (mortality) and not illness (morbidity)?" 'Cause the question fits the data, that's why.
Gosh, I does love me some statistics.

On December 10, 2007, the Freakonomics blog plugged ACSH's Riskometer site, saying:

Riskometer helps put health warnings in perspective.

When most people think of YouTube, thoughts of music clips, practical jokes caught on tape, and funny video spoofs come to mind. And they're all harmless. But a study published in the latest Journal of the American Medical Association on the video-sharing site YouTube found it to be a bastion of the growing anti-vaccination movement.

This piece first appeared in the New York Post.

On December 7, 2007, Joe Koz noted the dawn of the ACSH Riskometer:

New York, NY -- December 6, 2007. Americans are bombarded almost daily with warnings about new health risks -- and advice on how to avoid premature disease and death. Too often, this flurry of advice and warnings blurs the true distinction between real and hypothetical health risks -- and between large and tiny chances of death.

This piece first appeared on HuffingtonPost.com.
The days when you could count on hard news in the morning are long over. But as the morning news extends from breakfast to brunch, the standards have fallen even more.

Obesity isn’t good for you -- it can lead to myriad health problems and can shorten life -- but not always. Recent research reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Sui, et al. 2007;298:2507-2516) indicates that even obese older people, if they also are physically fit, have a reduced risk of death compared to similarly fat but less fit folks.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) make a big deal about how they want public input -- and the law requires public comment -- so ACSH Advisors Dr. James Enstrom, Dr. Stan Young, and I presented our concerns about EPA toxicology and epidemiology to a meeting of the Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) subcommittee of the BOSC by phone (in the case of Enstrom and Young) and in person (me), on November 15 in Bethesda, MD.

November 23, 2007: Giving Thanks, Donations, and Dispatches
-- ACSH staffers (from their respective hometowns) hope everyone had a delicious Thanksgiving yesterday. (We also hope you shared your ACSH Holiday Dinner Menu with your family! If you did not request a copy, you can download one here.)