ACSH's President Dismisses Harvard Health Letter's Condemnation of Plastic Products as Health Risks
"I fear that you may have misled your readers, causing them needless anxiety"
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Friday, May 23, 2008
New York, NY--May 23, 2008. In a letter responding to Harvard's Dr. Claire McCarthy, Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, President of the American Council on Science and Health, maintains that the use of plastic bottles and other plastic products pose no known hazard to human health...  Read Full >>

Fighting a Virus Carrier (from the New York Times)
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Tuesday, May 20, 2008
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Since DDT "fell out of favor" forty years ago, millions of impoverished Africans and Asians have died needlessly...  Read Full >>

ACSH Applauds MN's Gov. Pawlenty for Resisting Chemical Ban
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Letter
Publish Date : Thursday, May 15, 2008
The American Council on Science and Health sent the following letter to Minnesota's Gov. Pawlenty after reading about his veto of a bill banning two chemicals...  Read Full >>

Chem-Phobia: A Phony Plastics Threat (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Monday, April 28, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Chemical-phobia is in full bloom this spring...  Read Full >>

Plastic Hysteria Strikes Again (from the Washington Times) UPDATED
By Gilbert Ross, M.D.
Type : Editorial
Publish Date : Thursday, April 24, 2008
By Gilbert Ross, M.D. A new health scare -- over the safe and useful plastic component, bisphenol-A (BPA) -- has taken wing...  Read Full >>