Dr. Felsot on pesticides, in DC and on TV
Type : ACSH In The News
Publish Date : Wednesday, January 18, 2012
In an interview on Wednesday with E&E TV, Dr. Allan Felsot discussed the role of pesticides in allowing us to supply the world’s population with food and keep people healthy...   Read Full >>

Junk Science Week: Toxic terrorists ignore organic food threat (Financial Post)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, June 15, 2011
By Gilbert Ross. A respected newspaper notes the latest toll among Europeans of a virulent strain of the bacterium E. coli, the source of which has recently been determined to be sprouts from an organic farm in Germany. In the same newspaper, a few pages distant, a credulous journalist has in essence copied and pasted another press release from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a U.S. activist organization, warning us yet again about the traces of pesticide residues on their so-called “Dirty Dozen” list of fruits and vegetables.  Read Full >>

The biggest unfounded health scares of 2010 (The Daily Caller)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : ACSH In The News
Publish Date : Thursday, December 30, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. As we begin a new year, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) would first like to try and slay the demons and hobgoblins of the past year. We do this each New Year’s Eve by making a list of the top unfounded health scares of the outgoing year. These bouts of hysteria are prompted by many different things. But what they have in common is that there’s no scientific evidence to back up the alarms being sounded.  Read Full >>

Haitian ‘Social Justice’ Groups Want to Burn Aid (From NRO)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date : Thursday, June 3, 2010
By Jeff Stier. Four months after a devastating earthquake ripped apart their country, the people of Haiti are still suffering, so you’d think a multi-million-dollar donation of vegetable seeds would be welcome news. But two Haitian groups, backed by the activist group Grassroots International, are urging farmers to do the unthinkable: burn the donated seeds.  Read Full >>

Declaring War on Salt (from the Washington Times)
Mayor Bloomberg, M.D., launches a dishonest assault
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Wednesday, February 17, 2010
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's latest public health initiative is to get Americans to cut their salt consumption...  Read Full >>