A July 22, 2006 column by Paula Easley laments multiple efforts to regulate in the name of safety without solid scientific justification. She notes the exaggerations about secondhand smoke:
An article on GhanaWeb.com criticized herbal energy drinks, quoting ACSH:
These legal substances, which produce appealing, steroid-like effects, are marketed heavily to college-age athletes, club-goers, dancers, and party animals. The energy drink and herbal industry's vast marketing presence has created an environment where students understand little about these products' adverse effects.
New York City has hundreds of bustling fast-food outlets, but if one leading politician has his way, there may soon be fewer of them on the block. Worried by soaring levels of obesity and the health problems that go with it, the city council's health committee chairman says the time has come to challenge the rampant growth of fast-food chains.
Will it work? If it were that simple, people would not be fat in the first place.
A July 13, 2006 column (reprinted on July 17) by Steve Chapman on the use of smokeless tobacco instead of cigarettes as a method of harm reduction concludes with a quote from ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross:
This article appeared July 12, 2006 on the website of the Business & Media Institute:
Dr. Sylvester Graham -- who was born in 1794 and died in 1851 -- has been re-incarnated. His new name is Michael Jacobson, founder and director of the Washington-based "food police," operating under the name the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
A July 12, 2006 article by Matt Wells noted reactions to talk of banning restaurants from some areas of New York City with high obesity rates:
Another vocal critic is Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the conservative-leaning American Council on Science and Health, based in Manhattan.
A July 7, 2006 article by Diana Heil quoted ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava on the failure of an effort to ban the sweetener aspartame in New Mexico:
Dr. Ken Stoller, a Santa Fe pediatrician, lamented the outcome: "Today, the EIB, succumbing to pressure from Ajinomoto [the world's largest aspartame manufacturer], decided not to hold a hearing on aspartame even though they had twice previously voted to hold this hearing...The poisoning continues"...
An article by Denise Mann, updated July 6, 2006, quotes ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava on trans fats:
"We used to use animal fats, and people said, 'saturated fats are bad,' so we switched to trans fats," says Ruth Kava, PhD, RD, director of nutrition at the New York City-based American Council on Science and Health. "This kind of gives us an unfortunate focus on ingredients rather than the whole diet when the problem isn't this fat or that fat, it's too many calories"...
A July 5, 2006 column by Sidney Zion criticizes the Surgeon General for exaggerating secondhand smoking risks and quotes ACSH:
This letter appeared on the website of the New York Times.
To the Editor:
It is gratifying to learn that Dr. Arata Kochi plans to adhere to sound medical evidence and promote the indoor spraying of DDT in poor regions where malaria remains endemic ("An Iron Fist Joins the Malaria Wars," Scientist at Work, June 27).
