Substitute the word "Halloween" for any celebratory event and pervasive worry-lists abound. Fun also matters.
We asked three straightforward questions about the integrity of the organic certification process. Program officials refused to answer them. It seems clear that this agency is less of a regulatory body and more of a taxpayer-funded cheerleading squad. It should be eliminated.
In 1989, the American Council on Science and Health released a documentary called Big Fears Little Risks, which was narrated by the great Walter Cronkite. The documentary focused on how exaggerated fears about "chemicals" made people afraid of their food.
Thirty years later, ACSH has released an updated version of Big Fears Little Risks, focusing on issues such as vaccines, GMOs, pesticides, and nuclear power. It will be released very soon. Stay tuned!
Ethanol is bad science and bad economics, and combined that makes it bad energy policy.
Our national experience of influenza, as one disease with a set season, makes it difficult to recognize that flu is not a monolith. The global exposure to influenza has a lot more variation, and vaccination rates are influenced by much more than we might expect.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has been caught manipulating reports, and even images inside reports. At what point should the United Nations step in and fix this?
It turns out that Type 2 diabetes is not one monolithic disease. There are at least five identified genetic dispositions affecting our metabolism in different ways. Precision medicine may be more difficult than we are led to believe.
Could it be that where we go to medical school makes us better, or worse, physicians? Or rather, is the old joke true? "Q: What do you call the student graduating at the bottom of their medical school class? A: Doctor."
We haven't had a flu pandemic in a hundred years. And vaccines are why.
Food labels serve one purpose, and one purpose only: To provide nutritional information to consumers. The process by which a food is produced is not relevant to its nutritional content or safety profile. Therefore, products made using animal cell culture techniques absolutely should not require special labeling.
