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American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)
Type Corporation
Industry PR Lobby Bogus Science
Created by fedup

  
American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)'s Friends
Industry Funded Front Organizations
ACSH director Elizabeth Whelan explains that the concept of ACSH emerged following being commissioned by Pfizer to produce a background paper on the 'Delaney Clause' in the 1958 Food Additive Amendme...


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Richard Mellon Scaife
This heir to a petrochemical industry fortune was a source of funds from the outset. ACSH was introduced to the Scaife Foundations and John M. Olin Foundation which provided ACSH with its first fina...


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Monsanto
ACSH's Whelan was a fixture on the anti-environmental scene long before the Alar issue put her in the media spotlight. She advocated downplaying risks from DDT, dioxin, asbestos, and a host of other...


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Norman Borlaug
Borlaug sits on the Board of Directors for this Industry funded front group. ACSH was formed to destroy the Delaney Clause which prohibited known carcinogens from compromising foods. They've succee...


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Alcoa
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Coca-Cola
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Adolph Coors Foundation
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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DOW Chemical
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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DuPont
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Chevron
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Exxon Mobil
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Ford Foundation
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Ford Motor Company
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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General Motors GM
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Johnson & Johnson
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Philip Morris
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Altria Group, Inc.
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Merck
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Nestle
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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John M Olin Foundation
The Olin chemical lobby efforts are behind many bogus science efforts. They are also one of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Sarah Scaife Foundation
The funding is drewn from the petrochemical fortunes of the Scaife family and support goes to many bogus science causes including ACSH.


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Shell
A 1992 memo from ACSH's Whelan, referenced in a Consumer Reports expose, bemoans the loss of funding from Shell in a particularly revealing way: "When one of the largest international petrochemical ...


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Union Carbide
Union Carbide is responsible for the largest poisoning and industrial accident in history at their plant in Bophal, India. ACSH is there to help minimize the public perception of the effects on the ...


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Pillsbury Company
Pillsbury Company now a subsidiary of General Mills and they support ACSH with funding.


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American College of Nutrition
They are both members of the bogus science coallition FANSA.


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American Council on Science and Health
Same industry group with two listings, more connections are at the (ASCH) but links and background below.


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Food and Nutrition Science Alliance FANSA
Member of FANSA, ASCH website and probiotech spin builds on 20/20 program by John Stossel which tried to perpetuate the myth of E.Coli contamination in Organic food.


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American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Associated front organizations but check the connections at both ACSH listings for "corporate sponsors".


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vfluence Interactive Public Relations
ACSH is an established FRONT and would fit with the Internet warfare and false critics who fund both vfluence and ACSH Full client list at front organization link.


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Center for Global Food Issues CFGI
Avery who is Director of Hudson Institute and Founder of CGFI run by his son is also on the board of ACSH. It's all one big family with these corporate supporters below.


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C. Everett Koop
Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's association with ACSH and Elizabeth Whelan is longstanding.


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Kraft - Nabisco
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Pfizer
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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General Electric
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Ciba-Geigy
One of the corporate financial supporters of ASCH.


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Biotech Brigade
Since it was created in 1978, it has come to the enthusiastic defense of virtually every chemical or additive backed by a major corporate interest.


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Milk is Milk
In 1998 ACSH called an attack on milk from rBST-treated cows an unwarranted distortion of science. The UN WHO report stated that milk from such cows will lead to elevated levels of a hormone called I...


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Toxic Dumping and Coverups
ACSH's Love Canal position: Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan says, "Was there ever any real health problem at Love Canal? Yes, there was, in the sense that there was an enormous amount of media-induced stress...


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Monsanto Saccharin
Over the last decade, ACSH has made the Alar controversy a prominent part of its hallmark "Facts Versus Fears" report. A review of more than 25 "unfounded health scares," including dangers associated...


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Ketchum, Inc.
Whelan and Koop teamed up again to denounce Diet for a Poisoned Planet, a book that warned against the use of pesticides and chemical residues in foods. That campaign was organized by Ketchum Public ...


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Hill & Knowlton
The PR firm teamed with ACSH to defend Alar and got C. Everett Koop to write the defining letter..


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Tom DeGregori
DeGregori is counted on to attack GMO critics. He's on the board of front group ACSH and frequent contributor to Prakish's AgBio View E-mails. His congratulatory email to Stossel in a PR attack was ...


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Charlie Arnot
Best Food Nation is a website launched in May 2006 by a coalition of United States food industry trade associations and lobby groups. The coalition states that the wesbite was launched as a counter t...


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Henry I. Miller M.D.
is also a key figure in the network of right-wing pro-biotech lobby groups in the U.S. He is an 'adjunct scholar' at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a director of the American Council on Scienc...


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Ruth Kava
"Dr." Ruth is one of the network of Ph.D.'s that serves as the "experts" promoting Monsanto foods at CGFI and other groups. She's ACSH Director of Nutrition.


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Dennis T. Avery
Listed as a "science adviser" to ACSH - Dennis T. Avery - Founder Hudson Institute. Full list of advisers below


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Lee Silver
Lots of PhD's and not any well known MD's on this front group health list, like a who's who of Monsanto supporters on the ACSH board including Lee M. Silver, Ph.D., Princeton University


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American Chemical Society
A revealing reference regarding ACSH's origins appears in the March 1978 minutes of a meeting of the board of directors of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association (later renamed the Chemical Manufact...


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Bodies and Evidence
"It was the great Alar scare of 1989 that boosted Whelan into the media stratosphere," Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz wrote in a 1990 article in the Columbia Journalism Review. ACSH and ...


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rBSTFacts.org
Featured at the rBSTFacts.org the front group, ACSH - "By Ruth Kava, Ph.D., R.D. August 29, 2007 - ACSH Agrees rbST-Free Milk Marketing Misleading"


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IGF-1 and Cancer
Links include all the Monsanto front groups including the oldest, ACSH which was created by big tobacco but has been selling the safety of the Agent Orange gang's food in recent years.


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rBGH/rBST
Ruth Kave and ACSH was left off the original list, The Monsanto blogs have added a new name with IGF-1 but the list of supporters is the same, Steve Malloy and his Science Blog, Terry Etherton and hi...


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Best Food Nation
The "What Others Are Saying" section of the website features media releases and commentary columns by: Bob Stallman, the President of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Jay Lehr from the Heartland ...


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Michelle Obama
Unsurprisingly, Michelle's decision to plant an organic garden on the White House lawn drew fire from industry front ACSH. Link to a humorous video view of the conflict from ACSH spokesman with Dail...


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Bruce M. Chassy
Listed as a "science adviser" to ACSH, the original science fraud group of big tobacco -Full list of "advisers" below


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Stephen Barrett, M.D.
(see ACSH connections to big tobacco and front group campaigns) From Quackwatch - "In addition to heading Quackwatch, he is vice-president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, a scientific ...


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Edward C.A. Runge PhD
Listed as a "science adviser" to ACSH the Industry Front Group founded by big tobacco and well used by agribusiness Full list of advisers below


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Henry I. Miller Award for Excellence in Public Health Education
ACSH Award created in 2008, from site - ACSH was pleased and proud to honor Dr. Henry Miller for his prolific career in producing editorial commentaries on public health issues. It is our hope that t...


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The Wall Street Journal
ACSH's founder Whelan noted that in the early 1980s when she first met Robert Bartley, the long-term editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page...[Whelen] She explained that Mr. Bartley had hit...


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Crimes and Lawbreakers
In 1997 Dr. Gilbert Ross joined ACSH as a staff assistant. Ross became Coordinator of Medical Projects for ACSH in February 1998, and subsequently was appointed Medical Director, then Executive Direc...


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Asbestos
A 2001 survey showed that ACSH’s board of directors included anti-regulatory scientists like chairman A. Alan Moghissi, a former Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who had served on a pane...


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Georgia-Pacific Corp
However, in 1982, ACSH filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a lawsuit brought by the Formaldehyde Institute. The brief was paid for by Georgia-Pacific Co., a leading manufacturer of formaldehyde and ...


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