ACSH Statement on New York Times Story Alleging That Tuna Is "Contaminated" with Dangerous Levels of Mercury
Publish Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
There are no legitimate health concerns associated with eating the tuna available today -- in sushi or other forms...  Read Full >>

ACSH Taking on a Conventional Wisdom: Why Disclosure of Research Funding is Detrimental to Good Science:
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Thursday, February 4, 1999
Ralph King Jr.'s article ("Medical Journals Rarely Disclose Researchers' Ties," 2/2/98) calls for further analysis of the assertion, by the journal Epidemiology's Kenneth Rothman, that today's conventional wisdom in favor of disclosing corporate funding of research is a "new McCarthyism."   Read Full >>

ACSH to Mark Green: Protect ¬Don't Frighten¬ New Yorkers
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999
David M. Herszenhorn's June 15 article, "Bid to Alter Lead Paint Law Splits Speaker and Council," relies on the claim that "as many as 30,000 city children suffer lead poisoning." In fact, this alarmist assertion, originally employed by New York City Public Advocate Mark Green, incorrectly refers to slightly elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) as "lead poisoning." Many of the children cited have BLLs of 10 micrograms per deciliter-- a level that, according to the Center for Disease Control, does not require medical attention. Lead poisoning is a term reserved for the extremely rare and toxic condition associated with BLLs upwards of 40 micrograms per deciliter.  Read Full >>

ACSH Welcomes Naderites Resignation
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Monday, May 10, 1999
Americans who value our abundant, affordable, safe and healthy supply of fruits and vegetables should welcome the resignation of the seven special interest groups who had been serving on the EPA's Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee (7 Groups Quit Food Panel, April 28).   Read Full >>

ACSH's Dr. Emil Chynn, 'Ground Zero' Volunteer
Publish Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2002
ACSH Scientific Advisor Emil W. Chynn, M.D., a native Manhattanite who lives on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, seems a very busy Renaissance man. He is, for example, a sportsman, a part-time M.B.A. student, a writer, a researcher, an inventor, and a private practitioner of laser surgery for vision correction (Iwant2020.com). On the day of the in-flight attack on the World Trade Center, this ophthalmologist headed purposefully and unselfishly toward “ground zero”—unbidden, unaccompanied, unguided, and ill-equipped. He volunteered there daily for six consecutive days.  Read Full >>

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.
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 >>

ACSH's Stier on NPR 12/7 (UPDATED LINK)
Publish Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2005
ACSH associate director Jeff Stier appears on NPR's Talk of the Nation show to discuss health rumors, Dec. 7, 2005 at 3:20pm Eastern -- with the audio available online thereafter.   Read Full >>

Activism, Mendacity, and Pathological Science (from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
By Henry Miller
Publish Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009
By Henry I. Miller, M.D. Consumers are increasingly being exposed to what chemistry Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir dubbed “pathological science,” the “science of things that aren’t so”...  Read Full >>

Activists Seek to Derail Agriculture (from Forbes.com)
Banning a widely used herbicide would set a dangerous precedent.
By Jeff Stier, Esq.
Publish Date: Friday, April 2, 2010
By Jeff Stier. A lawsuit in the "judicial hellhole" that is Madison County, Ill., against the makers of the world's most widely used herbicide threatens to undermine our way of evaluating risks in this country...  Read Full >>

Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Overweight
By Ruth Kava, Ph.D., R.D.
Publish Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004
These issues and more are considered in a recent publication by the American Dietetic Association — Childhood and Adolescent Overweight: The Health Professional's Guide to Identification, Treatment, and Prevention.  Read Full >>