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ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Breast Exams, Vaccines, Rea Meat, Kellogg's, MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ACSH& #39;s Dr. Gilbert Ross and ACSH Trustee Dr. Henry Miller of Stanford& #39;s Hoover Institution have an article on Investor& #39;s Business Daily& #39;s Investors.com about the EPA under Lisa Jackson... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Nature Makes Chemicals, Too: Eat Them for the HolidaysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Each year, the American Council on Science and Health likes to remind you that your holiday meal is absolutely filled with & quot;carcinogenic& quot; chemicals -- whether you& #39;re eating organic food, conventional food, meat, vegetables, or anything else... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Breast Exam Advice Depends on the PatientEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
American women, and their doctors, have been thrown into a state of confusion by the release of a new study (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

The Great American SmokescreenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This Thursday, November 19th, marks the 33rd & quot;Great American Smokeout,& quot; in which smokers are encouraged to quit, even if only for one day. The goal is to make that Day One in the life of a smoker as a successful ex-smoker. So how are we doing so far? Not so great... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 18, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Adult Vaccines: Raising Awareness, Improving Access (new ACSH reports)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Large numbers of Americans above the age of 18 remain vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases, explains ACSH in three new publications... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Waiting in Vain for Flu VaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Gov. Paterson caved in to New York State healthcare workers& rsquo; superstitious fears of the new H1N1 vaccine... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Nocebo Effect: Think Sick and You’ll Be SickEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As Bill Durodie notes, & ldquo;Sweden has one of the highest levels of self-reported sensitivities to chemicals in the developed world. It would appear, then, that too much risk awareness can quite literally make you sick& rdquo;... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Green Day: American IdeologuesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ACSH Trustee Tom DeGregori spoke on October 27, 2009 at the University of Houston, where he is an economics professor, about what he calls the & quot;greenwashing& quot; of the green agenda... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Banning BPA Devalues ScienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
All of us want to avoid the adverse effects of exposures to naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals but we must also recognize that many of these materials are beneficial... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - October 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Dioxin, HPV, Froot Loops, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society (ACS), is catching some heat... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - October 22, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Borlaug, Menthol, Vitamin D, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ACSH Advisor and Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health Dr. Mike Siegel explains why the flavor ban is useless posturing... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - September 25, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Milk Is a Highly Nutritious FoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An article in USA Today (9/9/09) is boldly entitled & quot;Sixty Percent of Adults Can& #39;t Digest Milk.& quot; First of all, this is incorrect... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - September 17, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Remembering Dr. Norman BorlaugEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate, Green Revolution pioneer, and a founding Director of the American Council on Science and Health in 1978, died this weekend, at age ninety-five... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - September 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Remembering Dr, Norman BorlaugEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate, Green Revolution pioneer, and a founding Director of the American Council on Science and Health in 1978, died this weekend, at age ninety-five... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - September 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

The Organic Food Nutrition WarsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A few weeks ago, the world of organic food proponents was rocked by new research that organic food was not any more nutritious than conventionally-grown food... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - September 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Julia Child vs. Meryl StreepEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a recent, totally outrageous interview published in the UK paper The Telegraph , actress Meryl Streep, star of Julie and Julia , maligns and misrepresents the real-life version of the character she plays, famed chef Julia Child. And in the process she defames the organization I head up, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - August 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

NYT Terrifies Over "Weed Killers" in WaterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
All the news that& #39;s fit to scare. That was the thrust of this weekend& #39;s New York Times article by Charles Duhigg entitled & quot;Toxic Waters: Debating Just How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass& quot;... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - August 22, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: #500, Radon, Stossel, Amalgam Fillings, MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Welcome to ACSH& rsquo;s 500th edition of Morning Dispatch... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - August 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Mount Sinai's Scare Campaign (and John Stossel's reaction)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is nothing new for junk science to make it onto the New York Times op-ed page. But some agendas are so far outside the mainstream they have to buy their way onto the page. That& #39;s what the Mount Sinai School of Medicine did... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - August 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

EWG Fears America's VegetablesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) scare machine rolls inexorably on (as seen in the Good Morning America piece I appeared in today)... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - August 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

I Had the Swine Flu and Lived to TellEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A few weeks ago, I began to feel sluggish for a few days. Out of nowhere I suddenly felt cold. I lay down on the couch and piled on two down comforters to stay warm. As anyone who& rsquo;s ever lived in Washington, D.C. in July knows, feeling the need to dive under blankets that time of year is just not normal... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - August 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Protect Your Eyes on July FourthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As befits any birthday, Americans will celebrate this July 4 with food, pageantry, and, of course: fireworks... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - July 2, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Burros, GMOs, Cosmetics, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ACSH staffers would like to pay our respects to Washington Times commentary editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Lou Forbes... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - June 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Activists Attack AgainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The premier food nannies, those folks at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), are at it again... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - June 12, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Meaning of "Pandemic," per Health Group (as WHO Declares Pandemic)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The American Council on Science and Health cautions the public to understand the meaning of the WHO& #39;s imminent declaration... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - June 11, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Oprah, Spice, Tanorexics, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We& #39;d like to extend a warm welcome to the two newest members of the ACSH team... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - June 1, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Autism ExploitationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chemical castration is the latest quack solution touted for autism... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - May 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Us on 20/20, Daily Show, Times Site, MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Last night ACSH& #39;s Jeff Stier appeared on Comedy Central& #39;s The Daily Show to discuss the downside of the organic and locally grown food movements... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - May 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Mexico on My MindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In just a few months, if all still goes as planned, I& #39;ll begin studying comparative literature in Mexico City on a Fulbright Scholarship -- after having spent the past year working at a New York public health organization, tracking stories like the ones about deadly swine flu... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - May 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

You Can't Even Talk About It (from ABC's 5/8/09 interview with ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This press release from ABC News& #39;s John Stossel announced his scheduled one-hour show for Friday, March 8, 2009 -- with the final paragraph mentioning his interview of ACSH& #39;s Dr. Ruth Kava... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - May 8, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Mexican/Swine Flu and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In response to the growing spread of swine flu across the globe, the World Health Organization has raised its alert level to 5... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - April 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Tomorrow Is World Malaria Day -- We Need DDT-DayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In 2000, African leaders vowed to reduce malaria deaths by 50% in ten years. Tomorrow marks the ninth anniversary of the vow... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - April 24, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: PERC, Diabetes, Tea Parties, Salt, Sharks, MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) focuses on diabetes -- and brings some good news... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - April 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Smokeless, Vinyl, HPV, Dr. Wind, MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A study reminds us of the dire straits we are in with regard to tobacco cessation therapy... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - April 6, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Journalism Professor Rates Health StudiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here at ACSH we& rsquo;ve complained for years that health-related stories in the popular media often pay scant attention to the scientific accuracy and importance of the studies they report on... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - March 31, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Nosophobia and Fear of Invisible ToxinsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
& ldquo;If it smells bad, it& rsquo;s bad; if it smells good, it& rsquo;s bad,& rdquo; says Aileen Gagney, asthma and environmental health manager with the American Lung Association in Seattle... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - March 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Does Red Meat Increase Risk of Early Death?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Should we be wary of eating red meat? Taken at face value, a new study suggests that might be a good idea -- but a more careful consideration does not... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - March 24, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Infertility, Academia, Lost Limbs, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ever since high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) became the favorite target in the fight against the obesity epidemic (at least in the popular media), sugar has experienced an upswing in popularity... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - March 23, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Likely FDA Appointees Will Face ScaremongersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Scientists and physicians at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) call for the reform of a broken regulatory system -- one that now tries to appease advocates of junk science who pressure the Food and Drug Administration... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - March 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Drugs Can Help in Battle of the BulgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pharmaceutical products -- drugs -- can be effective components of treatments to counter the current widespread prevalence of overweight and obesity... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - February 25, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Obesity Medical Effects Detailed -- in Video and Expert ReportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Obesity affects far more than just appearance -- it can impair the functioning of the skeleton, skin, gastrointestinal system, respiratory system, and even reproductive system... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - February 25, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

20th Anniversary of the (Scientifically Baseless) Alar ScareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Twenty years ago tomorrow, a combination of environmentalists, public interest lawyers, publicists, and members of the news media foisted a bogus health scare on the American public -- the fear that apples being sprayed with Alar were exposing children to a cancer-causing chemical... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - February 25, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Phosphorus, Colons, Soda, Gates's Mosquitoes, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
ACSH staffers are pleased that a special federal vaccine court followed the science and ruled against parents claiming that vaccines caused their children& #39;s autism... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - February 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

TESTIMONY: New York's Soda TaxEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The following statement was submitted on February 2, 2009 by ACSH& #39;s Dr. Ruth Kava to New York State& #39;s Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Committee on Ways and Means during discussions of 2009-2010 budget plans for health and Medicaid ... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - February 3, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

NY Soda Tax: All Politics, No ScienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Aiming to combat the obesity epidemic in New York, Gov. David Paterson has recommended an 18% tax on sugar-sweetened soft drinks... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - January 29, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

Nuke Those Fears!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Greens dismiss nuclear energy based on little more than greatly exaggerated depictions of the supposed dangers and difficulties of its use... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - January 27, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Malaria, "Light" Cigarettes, Stroke Risk, Gupta, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A large institutional-sized container of peanut butter contaminated with salmonella has been discovered in Minnesota... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - January 13, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

The Case Against Mandating GardasilEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Shortly after Merck& #39;s HPV vaccine Gardasil was made available in the U.S. in 2006, Texas and Virginia decided to make the shots mandatory for all girls entering the sixth grade. The requirement didn& #39;t last long in either state... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - December 2, 2008 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

ACSH Dispatches Round-Up: Dubious D, Melamine, Smokeout, and MoreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In an effort to defend itself against the prevailing opinion that its food is unhealthy, McDonald& #39;s began inviting mothers from across the country to get an inside look at how its food is made... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 21, 2008 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations

The 32nd Great American Smokeout: A PerspectiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As we approach yet another Great American Smokeout -- tomorrow, November 20th -- both good and bad news on smoking abounds... (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Source: Health Facts and Fears - November 19, 2008 Category: Consumer Health Advice Tags: Blogs Source Type: organizations