ACSH regularly criticizes industries for making unscientific and overstated health claims, promoting dangerous natural supplements, or otherwise failing to tell the truth about scientific issues. Some of the scientific and professional journals that have recently published ACSH's work include: Medscape, CRC Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Journal of Health Communications, Clinical Therepeutics, and Technology.
According to the Congressional Quarterly's Public Interest Profiles, Whelan's organization received more than 75 percent of their funding from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. As a result, the ACSH has been accused of being more of a public relations firm, and less of a neutral council on Science. Jeff Stier, Associate Director of ACSH, has claimed that this information is outdated and inaccurate, with ACSH receiving less than 50 percent of their funding from industry.
External links
ACSH homepage (http://www.acsh.org/)
Facts Versus Fears (http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/factsfears.html) / A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times by ACSH
Who's Kidding W.H.O.? Strange Doings (http://healthfactsandfears.com/high_priorities/phantom/2002/who052202.html) - Phantom Health Menaces comment about WHO ban on DDT and current interests.
Disinfopedia: ACSH (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=ACSH) - opinions about ACSH board members.
Nutrition Navigator entry on ACSH (http://navigator.tufts.edu/journalists/sites/158.html)
When ACSH staffers picked up the paper this weekend, they said they were not surprised to read the article on Beijing's air quality.
Founded in 1978, ACSH is a consumer advocacy organization directed and advised by over 350 physicians, scientists and policy advisors.
ACSH promotes the use of sound, peer-reviewed science in the formation of a full spectrum of public health policies, including those related to food, pharmaceuticals, environmental chemicals, lifestyle factors, consumer products and terrorism preparedness and response.
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