Free Andrew! Hysteria and the TB Case
This piece first appeared in the New York Post.
This piece first appeared in the New York Post.
This article originally appeared on HuffingtonPost.com.
This piece first appeared in the April 21, 2007 Wall Street Journal.
An April 15, 2007 article by Paul Tosto quoted ACSH Advisor Stephen Barrett and ACSH's Todd Seavey reacting to Minneapolis Community and Technical College courses on shamanism:
Critics call the plan nothing more than specious medical training dressed up as cultural studies.
An April 5, 2007 entry by Julia Seymour on the Newsbusters blog contrasts the Center for Science in the Public Interest (and fawning media coverage of that group) with ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan:
An April 2007 piece by the Heartland Institute's James M. Taylor quotes ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan on phthalates:
"The American Council on Science and Health [ACSH] did a blue-ribbon panel report, including former surgeon General C. Everett Koop, on the subject of phthalates and health about four years ago," said ACSH President Elizabeth Whelan. "We could find no evidence that phthalates pose any risk to human health."
This letter appeared on March 28, 2007 in the Wall Street Journal in reponse to Dr. Marc Siegel's March 15 editorial commentary "Stupid Cancer Statistics" (viewable with subscription):
A March 27, 2007 article posted on the Connecticut Commentary blog and elsewhere quoted ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan:
A March 19, 2007 piece quotes ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross responding to hysteria over the chemical bisphenol A (BPA):
"The public belief in the 'low-dose hypothesis' is an example of the truism that people will believe something if it is repeated often enough,'' said Gilbert Ross, medical director of the American Council on Science and Health in New York.
"The scientific support for this concept is weak and unreliable and certainly should not be used to set public policy about environmental chemicals,'' Ross added.
A March 16, 2007 piece by Kathleen Doheny about e-mailed health rumors has some sound advice from ACSH's Jeff Stier:
"If the email is the only place you are seeing it [information about the hazard], there is a reason," says Jeff Stier, spokesman for the American Council on Science and Health, in New York. If you don't see or hear the same information on the nightly news, a mainstream newspaper, or a credible web site, be suspicious, he says.