American Council on Science and Health
Smaller breast cancer lumps don’t always mean less aggressive cancer
[Editor's note: Dr. Charles Dinerstein, M.D. is Senior Medical Fellow at the American Council on Science and Health.] The diagnosis ...
Dissecting MIT computer scientist Stephanie Seneff’s claim that glyphosate herbicide causes autism
[Editor's note: Josh Bloom is director of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences at the American Council on Science and Health. He ...
Nature or nurture? Chess players have higher than average IQ
Though we don't like to admit it, intelligence and IQ matter...The traditional view is that expertise, in general, requires a ...
10 ways Whole Foods misleads consumers about organic food and farming
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] I was at a meeting with ...
Scared to Death: Environmental Working Group fails the ‘sound science’ chemicals test
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) uses an authoritative sounding name to peddle scientific half-truths and outright fabrications. Along with Greenpeace ...
‘Uncertainty and fear’: Why GE vitamin-A fortified ‘Golden Rice’ has been slow to catch on
Vitamin-A deficiency around the world leads to between 250,000 and 500,000 children going blind – every single year. Half of ...
European Food Safety Authority slams Ramazzini study, finds (yet again) sucralose sweetener not carcinogenic
[F]or some reason, some folks don't want to leave the issue alone and keep trying to "prove" that [sucralose and ...
Psychiatrists developing model to identify which mentally ill patients likely to become violent
It is certainly true that rates of violent crime are higher among the severely mentally ill than among the general ...
US Right to Know’s Gary Ruskin linked to anti-science Russian ‘fake news’ site
[Editor's note: Alex Berezow is a senior fellow of biomedical science at the American Council on Science and Health.] RT is the ...
Why the FDA is powerless against supplement makers’ dangerous, dubious health and cancer claims
[Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)] was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, but really this ...
Potential tumor ‘blockers’ identified that could limit skin and breast cancers
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, claims between 9,000-10,000 American lives annually. And a primary reason it does is ...
Why does pancreatic cancer often hit so hard and usually kill its victims so quickly?
Pancreatic cancer. When news of this type of diagnosis is mentioned, those two words strike fear and dread in most ...
Herzegovinians dethrone Dutch as tallest men in world
At a towering 183.8 cm (just over 6 feet tall), Dutch men are widely hailed as the tallest in the ...
Why humans have larger penises and smaller testicles than other great apes
[While humans have a much longer and wider penis than the other great apes[, human] testicles are rather small...The relative size ...
Night owl? Gene mutation may disrupt your body’s internal circadian clock
Millions of adults simply cannot go to sleep at the conventional time that most Americans do, [usually because] their internal ...
Depression gene? Gene link found for some with depressive symptoms
One in 10 people have a major depressive disorder (MDD) during their lives, which makes depression the most common mental illness ...
Did Cargill ruin its reputation with scientists, farmers with one #NonGMO tweet?
[Read the GLP profile of the Non-GMO project here.] Reputations are a funny thing. It takes years to build them ...
Love scent: Do humans use pheromones like other animals?
[A]necdotal evidence not withstanding, the scientific evidence for pheromones in humans is lacking. However, just because human pheromones have not been identified yet ...
Challenging Danny Hakim’s New York Times claim that Monsanto conspired to cover up glyphosate dangers
[Editor's note: Alex Berezow is a microbiologist and a senior fellow of biomedical science at the American Council on Science ...
Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen pesticide-in-foods list confuses risk and hazard
It's that time of the year when the Environmental Working Group produces its "Dirty Dozen List" - foods they believe ...
Sickle cell cure? Patient in complete remission following gene therapy
A number of recent headlines imply a recent case study just published...proves that gene therapy has cured sickle cell disease—a ...
American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics on gene editing-How cautious can we afford to be?
There are a lot of voices getting into the mix of the debate on human genome editing, taking on the unenviable ...
“Getting Risk Right”: Geoffrey Kabat on health, risk and bad science
Why do things that are unlikely to harm us get the most attention? Dr. Geoffrey Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist at ...
GM baker’s yeast could one day provide caffeine addicts with their next fix
The proliferation of coffee shops and energy drinks bears testimony to the fact that caffeine is in high demand. The ...
How Michael Pollan and the ‘foodie’ movement hurt small farmers
...[I]n some ways I am glad the "foodie" movement encouraged people to learn more about agriculture and how farmers provide the ...
Could scientists one day predict when people are at risk for brain trauma?
A small, yet promising, brain trauma study may someday lead to a time when doctors can forecast which patients who ...
American Council on Science and Health fact sheet in response to GMO, biotechnology critics
Recently, a concerned group of pro-science scholars contacted American Council on Science and Health because they wanted to counter the ...
How gene editing could stop insect-borne diseases like Zika
[W]hat if there were no mosquitoes? That is the idea behind the work of the company Oxitec. They have engineered ...
