An article by Yury Orlov about the effects on business of California's anti-chemical Proposition 65 law was reprinted online on November 25, 2005 and mentions ACSH's position on the unscientific assumptions underlying Prop. 65:

A November 22, 2005 article by Mike Schwartz from the Press-Enterprise quotes ACSH's Holiday Dinner Menu and Nutrition Director Dr. Ruth Kava:

ACSH's board of scientific advisors contains experts in a broad range of disciplines. But we have only a few economists.

A November 20, 2005 article by Chresten Anderson quotes an op-ed by Brad Rodu and ACSH's Jeff Stier, which made the point that it is specifically the tar from smoking that accounts for almost all tobacco-related health problems, not nicotine (which can be more safely acquired by chewing, for those who cannot beat nicotine altogether):

Bis(4-chlorophenyl)-1,1,2-trichloroethane (DDT) has been shown, over the past sixty years, to be one of the few affordable and effective tools against malarial vector mosquitoes, which account for over 300 million cases of disease and more than 1 million deaths every year. However, the Review by Walter Rogan and Aimin Chen (Aug. 27, p. 763), which aims to balance the risks and benefits of DDT, consists mainly of hypothetical concerns while the reality of human suffering gets short shrift.

Thursday, November 17, 2005 is the Great American Smokeout -- but many not-so-great American doctors are neglecting to tell their patients to quit smoking.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control released the latest statistics on smoking rates. The tone was generally self-congratulatory, and indeed, when matched against the marketing might of Big Tobacco, a decline in smoking from 21.6% in 2003 to last year's 20.9% is an accomplishment, even if some 44 million Americans remain smokers.

New York, NY -- November 14, 2005. Scientists associated with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) once again present an analysis of the natural foods that make up a traditional holiday dinner. Results indicate that our favorite foods are loaded with chemicals that can cause cancer in laboratory animals when administered in very high doses -- but none of these "carcinogens" are manmade or added to the foods. Instead, they occur naturally. But ACSH scientists have good news: these natural "carcinogens" pose no hazard to human health -- nor, for that matter, do manmade ones.

This letter appeared on November 13, 2005:
Alec van Gelder's Oct. 31 op-ed article on issues swirling around preparing for a possible pandemic of bird flu makes some excellent points about the need for public-private cooperation and the disastrous consequences for public health that would likely ensue if patents on antivirals were violated for expediency's sake.

An article in the November 12, 2005 Boca Raton News by John Johnston summarizes bird flu points made by ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan:
"Public awareness about the possibility of a pandemic of avian flu has soared, but so has misinformation," according to Dr. Elizabeth Whelan president of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).
Dr. Whelan listed the top 10 things the ACSH believes everyone should know about avian flu:

A Noveber 11, 2005 article by Alicia Colon in the New York Sun described the ACSH presentation of the 2005 Sound Science Award to Michael Crichton: