Josh Bloom
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Viewpoint: Media focus on COVID-19 deaths ignores lasting impact of ‘calamitous pandemic’
Genes and Science | 
The media regularly reports about deaths from COVID-19 as if that is the whole story. But it's not. COVID-19 doesn't ...
Viewpoint: Are synthetic food additives dangerous? Here’s the science anti-chemical activists ignore
Genes and Science | 
Always take chemical advice from EWG with a grain of (inorganic) salt ...
If remdesivir trials fail, an effective treatment for the coronavirus may be far off
Genes and Science | 
It's only one trial, and we don't even know if the report is correct. But a leaked draft report indicated ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate caused the COVID-19 pandemic? Debunking the latest coronavirus conspiracy
American Council on Science and Health | 
When I saw that Dr. Stephanie Seneff, a ... professor at MIT, wrote an article entitled Connecting the Dots: Glyphosate ...
Viewpoint: Anti-chemical ‘activist-legal complex’ fuels public fear of scientific innovation
American Council on Science and Health | 
In his Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex, a partnership between the military and defense industry that ...
Nitrates in deli meat dangerous? Food labels and cancer claims don’t tell the whole story
American Council on Science and Health | 
NPR just ran a scare piece called "Duped In The Deli Aisle? 'No Nitrates Added' Labels Are Often Misleading," which ...
Viewpoint: EPA has science on its side in glyphosate-cancer label battle with California
American Council on Science and Health | 
By any measure, California’s Proposition 65 is an exercise in madness. The law, which is officially titled “The Safe Drinking Water ...
Viewpoint: FDA must do more to protect consumers from ‘outright fraud’ of dietary supplements
Genes and Science | 
Dietary supplements are often ineffective, if not dangerous. What does the path to supplement legislation and regulation look like? ...
Viewpoint: Welcome to California, where coffee causes—and prevents—cancer
American Council on Science and Health | 
California's Proposition 65, which began its miserable life as The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, now has ...
Your blood type may influence your vulnerability to stomach flu
American Council on Science and Health | 
Not only is a case of norovirus gastroenteritis the personification of misery, but the virus that causes it is also one ...
Video: Glyphosate and other health ‘boogeymen’ aren’t causing all diseases
American Council on Science and Health | 
Should John Oliver decide that he’s had enough, perhaps because generating sarcasm is exhausting, there is someone who can slip ...
Using molecular trickery to cross the blood-brain barrier
American Council on Science and Health | 
[There are a] number of methods that are being used to break down the [blood-brain] barrier that keeps drugs for ...
Viewpoint: New glyphosate study suggesting danger to honeybee microbiota is detailed, sophisticated—and wrong
American Council on Science and Health | 
Erick Motta and colleagues at the University of Hawaii just published a paper in PNAS entitled "Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees." ...
Viewpoint: There’s no such thing as an organic ‘superfood’
American Council on Science and Health | 
If you do a Google search of "Oz superfoods" you will get more than 40,000 hits. The good doctor really likes superfoods ...
What causes cancer? Challenge is distinguishing ‘between myth and reality’
Genes and Science | 
Misleading information about what can and can't cause cancer is incredibly prevalent in our society ...
Olympic gender confusion: Woman with too much testosterone required to take estrogen to compete while drug that blocks estrogen is banned
Genes and Science | 
Erik Lief and Chuck Dinerstein have each weighed in with companion pieces about a highly controversial rule by the International Association of ...
Viewpoint: Divide between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ chemicals is meaningless
American Council on Science and Health | 
Since pesticides and herbicides are routinely in the news, lately because of the "Glyphosate Wars," (2) I thought it might be interesting to ...
Banning glyphosate: France may replace well-tested herbicide with pelargonic and other more toxic ‘natural’ chemicals
Genes and Science | 
Activists say glyphosate can be replaced with natural herbicides—but "natural" doesn't necessarily mean that they're safer or better for the ...
Biologics joining fight against asthma
American Council on Science and Health | 
Should you be unfortunate enough to suffer from asthma, things are looking up. There are new biological therapies out there that ...
Viewpoint: Media focus on ‘scare fears’ like trace chemicals ignores real dangers like dietary supplements
American Council on Science and Health | 
There can hardly be a better example of […] logical disconnect than the silly July 12th hit piece in the [New York] Times about ...
Dissecting MIT computer scientist Stephanie Seneff’s claim that glyphosate herbicide causes autism
American Council on Science and Health | 
[Editor's note: Josh Bloom is director of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences at the American Council on Science and Health. He ...
Why the FDA is powerless against supplement makers’ dangerous, dubious health and cancer claims
American Council on Science and Health | 
[Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)] was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, but really this ...
“Getting Risk Right”: Geoffrey Kabat on health, risk and bad science
American Council on Science and Health | 
Why do things that are unlikely to harm us get the most attention? Dr. Geoffrey Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist at ...
Chemist explains why organic labels are about marketing, not chemistry
Chicago Tribune | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . ...
Do all brains interpret music the same way?
American Council on Science and Health | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Last night, as I was ...
City uses vinegar instead of glyphosate for weed control, odor proves problematic
American Council on Science and Health | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It borders on hilarious ...
NRDC plays scary Agent Orange card about 2,4-D herbicide found safe by regulators
American Council on Science and Health | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There has been a ...
Why ‘female viagra’ flibanserin flopped?
American Council on Science and Health | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you want to ...