When a woman goes to a hospital right after being sexually assaulted, she shouldn't have to worry that she will receive subpar health care. Currently, however, depending on where she turns for help, she might not have access to or even find out about emergency contraception, which is the standard, effective, and safe way to help prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse.

A group of leading scientists in England is making headlines for writing a scathing letter attacking one of England's leading medical journals, the Lancet, for promoting unfounded health scares.

Meet the D'Souza family of Sacramento.
The D'Souzas live in a pleasant ranch house on a pretty cul-de-sac in Natomas. Well, it used to be pleasant, until they started bolting up hideous layers of corrugated sheet metal all over the house. The D'Souzas say the metal is there to protect them from, to quote media reports, "unknown neighbors who have been bombarding them with radio waves and making them sick."
Ah. Radio waves. Unknown neighbors.

H.L. Mencken once said that "the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Apparently, here in New York, where the American Council on Science and Health is headquartered, Democrats and Republicans alike are well-versed in this philosophy, since this year we have been subjected to one health scare after another -- all bogus -- accompanied by slick, unscientific, purported "solutions":

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Morgan Spurlock was big last year. Literally. He made himself fat and famous by overeating and not exercising. By doing that only at McDonald's and making a film out of it, he tried to make the case that it was fast food, not his absurd consumption and inactivity, that was to blame. But people like Soso Whaley and Chazz Weaver showed why this is not the case.

This column appeared in the New York Post.
In any word-association game today, the term "chemicals" prompts responses like "harmful," "disease," and "risk." That's why a new report from the Centers for Disease Control -- expected in the next three weeks -- will definitely need to be taken with a large grain of, well, sodium chloride.

According to an estimate released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over one million people in America are living with HIV. This towering figure is the highest since the 1980s* and may at first seem like discouraging information. But in fact the CDC report represents both good and bad news about the fight against HIV/AIDS.

A June 14, 2005 article by Jeanne Whalen in the Wall Street Journal describes an ad campaign by the Lung Cancer Alliance designed to draw attention to lung cancer sufferers who were never smokers -- a strange and possibly misleading tactic given that virtually all lung cancer is attributable to smoking; the article mentions ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan: