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Holiday Meals Rife with (Safe) Carcinogens!
November 2008

Scientists with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) point out that the foods that make up a traditional holiday dinner are loaded with "carcinogens": chemicals that in large doses cause cancer in laboratory animals. None of these chemicals are man-made or added to the foods. These "carcinogens" occur naturally in foods. Read Full Article >>

	The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. —G.K. Chesterton

Kosher Wars (from the New York Times Magazine)
By Jeff Stier. Andy Kastner's approach to kosher food is endearing on its face, but... Read Full Article >>

Support, Disdain for Flu Shots (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The 1980s Japanese experience -- wherein a requirement that Japanese schoolchildren get vaccinated against the flu led to a dramatic reduction in the death toll among seniors -- should have led our own CDC to... Read Full Article >>

Smokeless Tobacco for Cigarette Cessation? (from The Lancet)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Epidemiological data indicate the heightened efficacy of smokeless tobacco in helping nicotine addicts to switch from their dangerous addiction to smoking... Read Full Article >>

Chemicals Contained in Cosmetics Are Safe (from USA Today)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. USA Today's article "Consumer groups fret over chemicals in teen cosmetics" called undue attention to yet another study by an activist group devoted to finding hazards... Read Full Article >>

Lethal FDA Warning (from Washington Times)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  The willful blindness of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- its overcautious reluctance to approve new drugs -- has led to historic declines in new drug approvals, which will cost lives in years to come.  A more immediate tragedy, though, is FDA's refusal to withdraw its off-putting "black-box" warning label on antidepressants for teens... Read Full Article >>

NYC Food Cops' National Agenda (from New York Post)
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 Article >>

Alarmist and Unscientific Claims on Toy Safety (from the Denver Post)
By Jeff Stier. Vague feelings should not form the basis of government bans... Read Full Article >>

Worried About Vaccine Fears (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  It would be impossible to get unanimity on any medical topic. But all pediatric and vaccine experts, as well as all federal health officials, advocate vaccination of preteen and young teen girls against human papilloma virus... Read Full Article >>

Soy Hypocritical (from the Washington Times)
By Jeff Stier, Esq.  Soy reduces sperm count! Or at least, that's what all the papers would be saying today if soy were an industrial chemical... Read Full Article >>

No Quick Fast-Food Fixes (from the Los Angeles Times)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross.  Banning so-called fast-food restaurants from specific zones will not ameliorate the problem of obesity... Read Full Article >>

Toxics (from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
By Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. Americans -- including some with university teaching posts -- are in the grip of nosophobia... Read Full Article >>

Group Not Industry-Funded (from the Dallas Morning News)
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 Article >>

Dr. Tom's New Folly (from the New York Post)
By Jeff Stier. City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden apparently didn't notice the scandalous revelations about City Council "member items" earlier this year -- at least, it hasn't stopped him from jumping feet first into his own no-accountability giveaway... Read Full Article >>

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Click for a list of pieces that appeared on this page in the twelve months preceding the pieces above. (For FactsAndFears pieces, click on our blog, above; for coverage by others about ACSH, see our News Center section.) Read Full Article >>