Meryl Streep's Junk Science (from the National Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, September 2, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Meryl Streep, star of the movie Julie & Julia, lashed out this past weekend at the world-famous chef she portrays on screen. In an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Ms. Streep claims that Julia Child's cuisine caused heart disease and calls Child "a pawn of big business." In the process, she attempts to smear the organization I head up, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)...  Read Full >>

FDA Smoke Screen on E-Cigarettes (from the Washington Times)
Cigarette substitute produces no deadly smoke
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Thursday, August 6, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  At a time when the government is ostensibly trying to cut health costs, why is it trying to ban something that might help...  Read Full >>

The Latest Toxin Activists Want to Ban (from Forbes.com)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Wednesday, June 24, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The "toxin du jour" these days is bisphenol A, otherwise known as BPA. Environmental activists claim BPA harms babies...  Read Full >>

One Flu Over the Piggy's Nest (from Wall Street Journal)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Tuesday, April 28, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  The news is a-chatter about swine flu. Is a pandemic pending--where all of us are at risk of disease and death? There are more questions than answers right now. Here are a few of them...  Read Full >>

A Bogus "Anti-Cigarette" Bill (from the New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, April 6, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. A law ordering the Food and Drug Ad ministration to regulate cigarettes is moving through Congress -- but is it truly good for public health? Hint: Cigarette maker Altria (formerly Philip Morris) is one of the bill's strongest supporters  Read Full >>

The Lesser-Known Effects of Obesity (from Consumer Guide to Bariatric Surgery)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Saturday, April 4, 2009
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. There is an old adage that more weight reduction diets begin in the fitting room of a clothing store than in a physician's office...  Read Full >>

Unfounded Health Scares (from the Washington Times)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Tuesday, December 23, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. In recent years, Americans have been scared to death by strident claims of "toxins" and "carcinogens" lurking in our environment. But 2008 seems to have produced its own unique bumper crop of silly scares...  Read Full >>

NYC Food Cops' National Agenda (from New York Post)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Monday, September 8, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan.  If the city Health Department gets its way, government officials -- local, state and federal -- will soon be deciding what you can and can't eat...  Read Full >>

Toxics (from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Friday, July 25, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Americans -- including some with university teaching posts -- are in the grip of nosophobia...  Read Full >>

Group Not Industry-Funded (from the Dallas Morning News)
By Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Publish Date : Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.  Your editorial urging Congress to ban phthalates in toys (despite the fact that they present no health hazard) implied that the only dissenters to the proposed ban are...  Read Full >>