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Submitted by J.P. Myers, Jan 3, 2007 08:46

Her organization, the American Council on Science and Health, takes industry money and defends chemicals. It's medical/executive director, Gilbert Ross, spent 1996 in jail after being convicted of racketeering and mail fraud in what court records describe as "an elaborate
conspiracy to defraud the New York Medicaid program. I am not making that up. It's a matter of public record: http://www.hhs.gov/dab/decisions/cr-478.htm ACSH publications regularly and consistently misrepresent scientific findings. This diatribe by Whelan is more of the same.

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Jan 3, 2007 10:20

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Sandra P. Marin MPH RD 

Jan 3, 2007 16:33

The health care in America is atrocious, its all about the money, pushing pharmaceuticals at the expense of American public.... [MORE]

JRoark 

Jan 29, 2007 02:54

Her organization, the American Council on Science and Health, takes industry money and defends chemicals. It's medical/executive director, Gilbert Ross,...

J.P. Myers 

Jan 3, 2007 08:46

NRDC is right about avoiding the lice pesticides. The oncologists admitting for leukemia or neurologists seeing kids in the ER... [MORE]

D. Altschuler 

Jan 8, 2007 08:21

God bless Dr. Elizabeth Whelan and her organization (ACSH). Anyone seeking anything resembling integrity, ethics, and full truths in the... [MORE]

Audrey Silk 

Jan 3, 2007 02:17

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