A Message from ACSH's Board Chairman ACSH is among the most significant scholarly organizations in the United States. In other words, it does not process scientific information politically.
Evidence is ample that poverty is as harmful as exposure to the most toxic pollutants.
Yet policy decisions are often made that lead to attempts at reducing small risks to human health at the expense of upping poverty. Because of chemophobia, the struggle against microbiological pollution has been ineffective. The rallying cry of the health irrationalists is, in essence, that everything natural is wholesome. ACSH's Holiday Dinner Menu nicely refutes this notion.