Public Health

The False Fear Of ‘Toxic Breast Milk’

At the American Council on Science and Health, we have been keeping our eyes on Denmark's Dr. Phillipe Grandjean and the Harvard School of Public Health for quite some time now. He has a long and well-deserved reputation of being in the forefront of ...

Article - Gil Ross - Aug 19 2020 - 4:08pm

Eat A Vegetarian Diet If It Suits You, It Won't Make You Healthier- Only Fewer Calories Will

People often adopt vegetarian or even vegan diets because they are told it will make them healthier, but the same epidemiological correlation that tried to link butter with heart disease claimed trans fats would prevent it, and now statistical links claim ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 28 2020 - 9:47am

Bill Gates Will NOT And CANNOT Inject Us With A Microchip In A Vaccine- Fails Basic Fact Check

Bill Gates doesn't make vaccines. There are now 176 vaccines from many different countries, thirty four of those already in clinical trials and eight in phase 3. Some may be approved soon, and none are made by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. T ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 4 2020 - 10:11pm

COVID-19 Has Brought 'Thirdhand' Smoke Epidemiology Back From Its Science Grave

With COVID-19 and worries about the SARS-CoV-2 virus keeping millions of people at home, activists and lawyers are hoping to resurrect worry about a problem dismissed by scientists as a money grab; third-hand smoke. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 18 2020 - 8:48am

Smokers Use E-Cigarettes To Quit

When e-cigarettes- vaping- began to gain in popularity in the early part of this decade, critics like Dr. Stan Glantz at UC San Francisco claimed they were only going to be used in addition to cigarettes, so risk reduction and smoking cessation would not h ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 21 2020 - 6:01am

Like 'Sustainable' And 'Organic', Consumers Misunderstand What 'Whole Grain' Means

Consumers have been so saturated with vague marketing claims that nearly 50 percent can't correctly identify what is claimed to be a "healthier" option on packages. That sounds bad, except buying whole grain or white bread or fancy crackers ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 30 2020 - 11:14am

The Nobel Prize For CRISPR-Cas9: Here's Who Got Left Out

This year’s Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded for a genuine revolution in modern science. The Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing tool allows scientists to precisely alter DNA by cutting and pasting sections of it. ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 8 2020 - 3:04pm

More Young Adults Are Abstaining From One Known Carcinogen- Alcohol

There are calls to ban vaping because it has pleasant flavors and an addictive component and that combination may lead to disease but while there are zero deaths attributable to nicotine so far, there is an actual socially acceptable carcinogen that also u ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2020 - 6:39pm

The Ethical Reasons For Staying Home, And The Need To Explain Exponential Growth

The sanitary emergency presently affecting most countries across the World is highlighting the duties that each of us, as a member of a collectivity of individuals who share commodities, services and infrastructure, is called at times to attend to. In a we ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 29 2020 - 12:33pm

Death Rates For Hospitalized COVID–19 Patients Fall 18%

Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August. The first study used data from three hospitals in New York City. The chance of death fo ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 3 2020 - 11:55am