A May 11, 2006 article by Ken Shepherd praises ABC's Nightline but criticizes ABC's bird flu movie, Fatal Contact, noting ACSH's more balanced approach:
A May 10, 2006 letter to the editor in the Washington Times denounced an earlier piece by ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan:
This letter appeared in the Washington Times.
A May 7, 2006 article on the website of the Pakistan News Service quotes ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross countering fears about smokers gaining weight when they quit:
Smokers who want to quit should not be deterred by this, said Dr. Gilbert L. Ross, medical director of the American Council on Science and Health in New York.
The following piece appeared in the May 6, 2006 Washington Times:
A May 5, 2006 article by Ron Bailey on Reason.com, reprinted in the May 21 Chicago Sun-Times, notes ACSH's skepticism about oft-repeated claims that environmental chemicals are disrupting human sex hormones:
A May 3, 2006 article by Kara Sissell noted the ease with which activists can turn reports about chemicals into scares, one example of which was activists' reception...
...last year of a bio-monitoring study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Atlanta), says Gilbert Ross, executive director/medical for the American Council [on] Science and Health (ACSH; [New York]), a group that receives some funding from industry...
A May 1, 2006 article on ConsumerAffairs.com quotes ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reacting to the Institute of Medicine report that noted that facemasks would offer little protection in an avian flu outbreak:
A May 1, 2006 article on the website of CBS 4 in Miami quotes Michael Jacobson of Center for Science in the Public Interest, ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava, and others on the topic of artificial sweeteners:
Dr. Ruth Kava, of the American Council on Science and Health says they provide a sweet ride without the guilt trip.
An April 29, 2006 essay from the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Perfumery Association in the British publication The Grocer, criticizing overblown health scares, quoted an earlier Grocer piece by ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan about the panic over the dye Sudan 1:
