This article appeared November 9, 2005 in the Washington Times.

Cosmetics are health and beauty products such as toothpaste, antiperspirant, lipstick, eyeliner, and hand lotion. Many of us have used one or more of these products every day for many years without giving them a second thought. Recently, some activist groups have claimed that cosmetics pose dangers to our health, and may even be cancer-causing.

A November 9, 2005 article by M.A.J. McKenna in the Pioneer Press about a possible cola-high blood pressure link quoted ACSH's Dr. Kava:
Other researchers who reviewed the study were more critical.

New York, NY -- November 8, 2005. The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) presented Dr. Michael Crichton with the 2005 Sound Science Award for his defense of sound scientific principles and critiques of junk science. The ceremony and luncheon, which took place at the Union League Club in Manhattan on Friday, November 4th, drew an impressive crowd and featured remarks from such prominent individuals as ABC News's John Stossel and former White House Chief Counsel, the Honorable C. Boyden Gray, in addition to the guest of honor.

A report in the November 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) will likely have both consumers and nutrition researchers scratching their heads in bewilderment. The study set out to examine the possibility that caffeine consumption -- from beverages such as coffee, tea and cola drinks -- increases women s risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure). Previous reports had suggested such a relationship in men, but the issue had not been examined for women.

In order to save more of the almost 40,000 Americans who die annually of the flu, we should be mandating the vaccination of school children, in addition to infants and toddlers as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The experience in Japan over several decades supports this position.
When Japanese school children got a flu vaccine, the death and morbidity rate among the elderly there went down dramatically because of reduced exposure to the flu virus from their grandchildren in the home.

A Thursday, November 3, 2005 article by Linda Stahl in the Courier-Journal about fad diets such as Atkins quotes ACSH's Dr. Kava:
Ruth Kava, director of nutrition for the American Council on Science and Health, figures a new diet will come along that Americans will embrace.
"Self-help books have been around awhile. Plus maybe we have too much leisure time," she suggested. "It's human nature to want to find a quick fix."

Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., co-director of the University of Minnesota s Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, has issued the claim -- based on preliminary data he has yet to publish in a peer-reviewed journal -- that smokeless tobacco is worse than the standard nicotine replacement therapies as a smoking-cessation aid. His reason seems to be simply his (unsurprising) finding that use of smokeless tobacco leaves carcinogen traces in users' urine.

This article appeared on NationalReview.com.
President Bush unveiled the administration's new plan Tuesday in preparation for a possible onslaught of the dreaded "bird flu" pandemic in America. He and Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt seem to be bending over backward, allocating at least $1.2 billion for stockpiling millions of doses of new vaccine. But what are we going to get for that money?

An article by John Luik on TechCentralStation November 2, 2005 noted the opposition of ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's crusade against foods containing acrylamide: