If news stories and the Internet are to be believed, the dangers from chemicals are increasing, cancer stalks us at every turn and our children are vulnerable. Synthetic chemicals are essential for modern life, but our views of them are conflicted. Pharmaceuticals keep us healthy. Plastics are found in everything from toys to cars to medical supplies. Pesticides and herbicides boost food production and quality. It's impossible to conceive of life in the 21st century without the materials and fuels that synthetic chemicals have made possible. But from soap to sunscreens, drugs to DDT, we are faced with an endless stream of confusing messages about the safety of chemicals we come in contact with every day. How does the public adjudge hazard, safety and risk? Presented by the American Council on Science and Health, in Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health, journalist and scholar Jon Entine details how scientists assess the risks and benefits of chemicals. He explains how it's an irrational fear of chemicals that poses the real risk to public health.

Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health

Science & Math

Jon Entine

Earth Sciences

American Council on Science & Health

Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities

Felsot, Dr Allan S

In March 2011, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental activist group, released a questionable report alleging that chemical exposures throughout the country have led to numerous “disease clusters.” The group called for far-reaching reforms that would place huge financial burdens on chemical manufacturers and American taxpayers. Accelerated job loss and restrictions or bans on safe and useful products would be the consequences of the misguided concern generated by this (and similar) scientifically flawed warnings. In response, the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), basing our analysis on well established principles of scientific investigation, critically evaluated the NRDC’s purported disease clusters and assessed the depth of the evidence-based support for these claims. Th is publication is a case-by-case investigation of each of the NRDC’s claims. We explain why, with few exceptions, their allegations have no scientific basis and fly in the face of the conclusions reached by objective governmental public health agencies.

Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You

Medical Books

Susan Z. Ingber

Gilbert Ross

Administration & Medicine Economics

New and improved techniques will be required to improve the production and efficiency of the global agriculture sector to ensure an ample supply of healthy food. This challenge is confounded by the inequity between the affluent and developing countries that is likely to continue to widen. It appears that only a handful of technologies are affordable by the least developed countries and are sufficiently scale neutral to be accessible to poorer countries. In this book, the American Council on Science and Health explores the benefits of, and barriers to, biotechnology - one such technology that offers efficient and cost-effective means to produce a diverse array of novel, value-added traits and products.

Food and You: A guide to modern agricultural biotechnology

Engineering & Transportation

Newell-McGloughlin D.Sc, Martina

Chassy Ph.D., Bruce

Conko J.D., Gregory

Engineering

Chiropractic Abuse is a very important and timely contribution to the critical evaluation of chiropractic. It provides a most valuable perspective on the education, training, thinking, misunderstandings, wrongdoings and unethical behaviours of chiropractors. Anyone who consults a chiropractor or is considering doing so should study it thoroughly. Preston Long has been a chiropractor himself, and therefore his authority and expertise cannot be undermined by labeling him an outsider. His thoughtful insights and hands-on experiences reflect the very heart of chiropractic. It is this fact that makes this book unique. It would be nice to think that his outstanding and in many ways constructive criticism might contribute to a much-needed and long overdue reformation of chiropractic; but I would not hold my breath. -- Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD.

Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider's Lament

Long D.C, PhD. Preston H

Allied Health Professions

New and innovative technologies will be required to improve the production and efficiency of the global agriculture sector to ensure an ample supply of healthy food. This challenge is confounded by the inequity between the affluent and developing countries that is likely to continue to widen. It appears that only a handful of technologies are affordable by the least developed countries and are sufficiently scale neutral to be accessible to poorer countries.

Food and You: Feeding the World with Modern Agricultural Biotechnology

Increased awareness about using a highly technical process called hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas trapped deep within the Marcellus Shale has created questions about related human-health and environmental impacts. Associated arguments, both pro and con, have often been subjective, emotional, and unscientific. This publication by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), is aimed at a systematic, objective review of documented types and rates of hydrofracturing-fluid- and chemical-related incidents affected human health, to date, in the region of the Marcellus Shale Play.

Fracking and Health: facts vs. fiction

Kucewiez, William

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