When you look closely at many environmental issues, you find health scares built on unfounded claims posing as truth. That way, they will be equipped to make their own informed decisions. The ACSH study also noted that many of the authors and reviewers of health-related textbooks lack the relevant scientific expertise necessary to assure high quality coverage of environmental topics. When an author lacks the proper expertise, that author's evaluation of a topic is limited to a very superficial level. The absence of environmental health experts from the prepublication review process for high school health textbooks needs to be changed.
Students deserve to be taught the most current and accurate information available.
ACSH is currently conducting a separate study evaluating the health-related sections of high school environmental science textbooks.