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Three April 1, 2006 pieces on the Heartland Institute site mention ACSH, one on pesticides...
The proposal [to mandate that farmers warn surrounding towns when using pesticides] and its demise raised the issue of "junk science." Gilbert Ross, medical director of the American Council on Science and Health, criticized the Washington proposal prior to the decision as having "absolutely no basis in scientific fact."

An MSN Money article by Jay MacDonald about the cost of cigarettes and lesser vices included comments from ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava:
Alcohol, long reviled as "demon rum," has been enjoying a new respectability lately thanks to medical studies that show that a little tippling can be good for the heart.

A June 8 article by Chantelle Janelle on the site of NBC 10 in South Carolina quotes ACSH president Dr. Elizabeth Whelan on summer insects:
"But they can also be dangerous. Bugs are what we call vectors, vectors of disease, they can make you sick"...

A June 12, 2006 article by John Johnston notes skepticism about the value of spiral CT scans as an early-detection method for lung cancer:
However, the screening jury is still out for Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.
Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) said, "despite evaluations of many different screening techniques involving hundreds of thousands of individuals, there is no evidence that such screening prevents deaths from lung cancer."

This letter appeared in the Washington Times.
Dr. Richard N. Atkins argues that early detection of prostate cancer saves lives, that all men should have an annual PSA test to detect prostate cancer, and that those of us who oppose the test do so because of concern about the costs associated with biopsies, which may be necessary following a finding of elevated PSA ("No more prostate excuses," Op-Ed, Friday).
Such arguments obscure some basic facts:

Three new studies make the treatment of pregnant women suffering from depression somewhat more complicated.

Good news came from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) this week, as an expert advisory panel recommended that preschoolers between the ages of two and five years receive annual influenza vaccinations. Why the change, one might ask, if the flu causes little serious trouble for youngsters as compared with other at-risk groups?

As our thousands of devoted readers know, ACSH is not a big fan of so-called dietary/nutritional supplements. I believe that therapy should be based on scientific evidence. Remedies based on belief, supposition, and "common sense" belong in the realm of quackery or faith-healing. "Alternative medicine" is an oxymoron: it's either medicine, or it's not.

A January 29, 2006 "Blog On!" column by Dawn Eden described avowedly skeptical and counter-skeptical blogs, noting ACSH's own HealthFactsAndFears.com:

An FDA panel did the right thing yesterday in recommending that multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Tysabri be put back on the market.

Nick Naylor, master lobbyist for Big Tobacco in the just-released film Thank You For Smoking, is adept at making lemonade out of lemons. His creativity in twisting logic and reality is breathtaking -- but that may be the essence of the lobbyist's job.

A February 17, 2006 article by Karen Matthews in The Repository quotes ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava:

(As of March 1, 2006) the entry about Rachel Carson's founding environmentalist and anti-chemical book Silent Spring on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia contained a section about "Criticism" of Carson's negative opinion of the pesticide DDT, including a quote from ACSH's Todd Seavey:

This letter appeared in the Washington Times.

A September 20, 2006 article by Kimberley Jace contrasts real vs. imagined or exaggerated dangers, starting a long list with a nod to ACSH:
What else is risky? The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org), a consumer education consortium, weighs in on these dangers.
Perceived danger: School shootings.
Students bring guns to school and kill classmates and teachers as they did at Columbine High School in Colorado.
Real danger: Reckless behavior.

A December 7, 2006 item by John Sterling on the Genetic Engineering News blog describes their podcast interview with ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan:

This column first appeared in the Washington Times.

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New York, NY – August 24, 2006. Counterfeit drugs are a real and growing threat to global health, and have even jeopardized the security of the American drug supply, according to a new report by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH).

Forbes.com on September 22, 2006 and numerous other outlets carried a story about cosmetics safety from HealthDay by E.J. Mundell that cited ACSH:

An October 30, 2006 piece by Eric "SciGuy" Berger notes ACSH's trans fat position:
Trans fats are, indeed, bad for you. But so are a lot of things we eat. Here's a measured report on the scientific evidence from the American Council on Science and Health:

The study reported by Simonsen et al1 in the February 14, 2005, issue of the ARCHIVES is counterintuitive to those of us with clinical experience and will surprise many of our public health decision makers. In keeping with best practice guidelines, clinicians have aspired to ever-higher coverage rates for influenza immunization for our older patients. Now it appears that immunizing older patients...makes little or no impression on the commonly encountered flu viruses of the past thirty-plus years, as best as can be discerned from mortality patterns among the elderly.

An October 2, 2006 article by Michael Precker about complaints against corn syrup notes a contrary opinion from ACSH's Todd Seavey:
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently wrote that Americans need to cut down on sugary drinks and fired this broadside: "Our government needs to do much more to control potentially deadly substances -- plutonium, anthrax, and high fructose corn syrup."

A series of articles by Dr. Henry Miller in TCSDaily.com (excerpted on Galen.org) and LegalNews.TV on Oct. 4, 2006 and the Washington Times on Oct. 5 cited ACSH's report Countefeit Drugs: Coming to a Pharmacy Near You:

A July 19, 2006 article by John Johnston quotes ACSH's Jeff Stier:
"Egged on by the food police, people think they are doing the healthier thing -- and are willing to sacrifice and eat the baked snacks."
The tone in Jeff Stier's voice is filled with the irony at the word "sacrifice."
However, those "sacrifices" are in vain, according to Stier, associate director of the American Council of Science and Health (ACSH).

An August 2, 2006 article by Bonner R. Cohen quotes ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan in the course of explaining why California doesn't need special mercury-in-tuna warning labels: