A September 30, 2005 item in the Wall Street Journal noted ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan's role in drawing attention to the Harvard School of Public Health's award to the unscientific scaremonger Erin Brockovich:

Modern life has buffered us from so many of the constant dangers of pre-modern life that few of us fear them. Unfortunately, the removal of the constant threat of disease and starvation seems to cause us to fill in the vacuum with new fears. Instead of fear-mongering, though, the happy story of the last half-century should be told in terms of the cancer epidemics or other dark, unseen forces that didn't strike us.

Ah, the contrast! Last night, I was lucky enough to attend Popular Mechanics magazine's 2005 Breakthrough Awards, a reminder that wonderful things that benefit human health are still being invented all the time.

A September 29, 2005 column by Michael Fumento criticizes the Harvard School of Public Health's award to Erin Brockovich, noting ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, who brought the dishonorable honor to public attention:

This piece appeared in the Washington Times and on Spiked-Online.

This article appeared on the site IntellectualConservative.com.

In a September 27, 2005 column largely dependent upon the alarmist Center for Science in the Public Interest for information, Lisa Ryckman does quote ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan on the scare campaign against cyclamates:
And what of cyclamates? That faux-sweetener saga began in 1937 with a discovery by chemistry graduate student Michael Sveda, who tasted something sweet on the cigarette he'd just stuck in his mouth while mucking about in the lab.

Editor's note: With the Senate narrowly staving off more restrictive mercury regulations recently (see ACSH's new report on mercury emissions for an explanation of the futility of trying to improve human health through further limitations on factory emissions of mercury), New York governor George Pataki recently approving an unscientific and belated call for mercury-free vaccines, and dental quacks perpetually blaming human ills on mercury in dental fillings, mercury may be in the running for America's Least Favorite Ele

Broccoli and cauliflower help prevent cancer, right? So you might think, if you relied on much of the nutrition news in the popular press. But the reliability of such information has been questioned -- most recently in an article in the New York Times by veteran science reporter Gina Kolata.

The possibility of suffering adverse health effects as a result of exposure to radiation is a cause for concern and indeed, for outright fear for many people. It is often thought that little is known about the health effects of radiation and that exposure to even low doses of radiation can be disastrous; yet neither of these beliefs is true.