ARTICLES
Publication Date: February 23, 2009

 

We Can Be Too Safe (from the Washington Times)

ACSH Mourns the Passing of One of Its Founding Directors, Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009

Organic Wars Rage Anew

A Dangerous Cost-Cutting Prescription (from Forbes.com)

Meryl Streep's Junk Science (from the National Post)

Activism, Mendacity, and Pathological Science (from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)

The Drugs Do Work (from the Guardian)

Banning Drug Ads (from Medical Progress Today)

Drugs from Overseas Can Be Cheap, Which Is Part of the Problem (from the Washington Examiner and San Francisco Examiner)

FDA Smoke Screen on E-Cigarettes (from the Washington Times)

Healthcare Reform That's Hard to Swallow (from Los Angeles Times, Detroit News, and Twin Cities' Pioneer Press)

Unsafe at Any Price (from TCSDaily.com)

Putting Organ Traffickers Out of Business (from the Guardian)

Is the White House's Organic Garden Toxic to Kids? (from Forbes.com)

Benefits of NYC Trans-fat Ban Are Unclear (from Annals of Internal Medicine)

ACSH Bids Farewell to Walter Cronkite

Detecting a Bad Breast Cancer Bill (from RollCall.com)

Free-Riding Lawyers on the Obamacare Bus (from American Spectator)

The Latest Toxin Activists Want to Ban (from Forbes.com)

Chemical Ban Will Not Help Kids (from TCSDaily.com)

I Choose Risk (from Forbes.com)

Letters to the Editor (from Politico)

Another Movie Blasts Food System (from Farm and Dairy)

The EPA's Protection Racket (from NationalReview.com)

Stifling Innovation (from TCSDaily.com)

Punitive Taxes on Food Won't Change People's Eating Habits (from Cleveland Plain Dealer)

You Can't Even Talk About It (from ABC's 5/8/09 interview with ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava)

One Flu Over the Piggy's Nest (from Wall Street Journal)

Dietary Supplements: A Source of Regulatory Confusion (from Pharmacology Matters)

House Lights Up FDA Regulation (from the Washington Times)

A Bogus "Anti-Cigarette" Bill (from the New York Post)

The Lesser-Known Effects of Obesity (from Consumer Guide to Bariatric Surgery)

Non-Industry-Funded Research Can Be Biased, Too (from Clinical Psychiatry News)

The Empire Strikes Back (from Forbes.com)

New FDA Honcho No Fan of Drug Makers (from Orange County Register)

Obama's Latest Troubling Appointments with the FDA (Forbes.com)

The Wrong Way to Fix the FDA (from the Guardian)

Likely FDA Appointees Will Face Scaremongers

Blocking Drug Development (from the Washington Times)

Dark Days Ahead for "Big Pharma" -- and You (from TCSDaily.com)

What Hurts Smokers and Helps Cigarette Companies? (from Forbes.com)

When Suing Companies Means Harming Patients (from Forbes.com)

Obama Curbing Only Lobbyists Who Disagree with Him (from the Orange County Register and TCSDaily.com)

How "Child Safety" May Kill NYC Jobs (from the New York Post)

Insecticide or Suffering? (from the Washington Times)

To Stop Going Up in Smoke (from the Washington Times)

Unfounded Health Scares (from the Washington Times)

Obesity Impacts Many Organs -- Not Just Appearance

Lessons Learned from a Last Battle (from MedicalProgressToday.com)

Asthma from Every Angle: Examined by a Leading Pulmonologist

Kosher Wars (from the New York Times Magazine)

Support, Disdain for Flu Shots (from the Los Angeles Times)

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