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- carla k. johnson (Associated Press)
Words: study, risk, research, autism, children
Topics: Autism, Food and Drug Administration, United States, Barack Obama, California
- ben goldacre (Guardian Unlimited)
Words: science, study, scientists, research, evidence
Topics: Autism, Breast Cancer, Global Warming, Food and Drug Administration, Britain
- lindsey tanner (Travel Channel )
Words: study, children, risk, research, drug
Topics: Autism, United States, Food and Drug Administration, Barack Obama, European Union
- dave kolpack (Associated Press)
Words: autism, study, research, children, science
Topics: Autism, North Dakota, United States, Barack Obama, Minnesota
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Articles Written by: TREVOR BUTTERWORTH
Once upon a time--this week, actually--mothers all over the world woke up and wondered whether their little boys were increasingly behaving like little girls. The cause for this sudden concern: a new study claiming chemicals in everyday plastics might ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
Forbes,
18 Nov 2009
Here’s an update to Consumer Reports charge that STATS is funded by ExxonMobil. Apparently, because STATS received grants from the Sarah Scaife foundation (though not in recent years), and Scaife had stock in ExxonMobil, therefore STATS was being ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
10 Nov 2009
Consumer Reports posted a response on its blog to STATS criticism of its recent report on BPA. The following is a letter sent by STATS President, S. Robert Lichter Ph.D to the magazine:
In their response to Trevor Butterworth’s criticisms, Andrea Rock ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
6 Nov 2009
You would think that pain, being an obvious and compelling condition, would have an obvious and compelling cure. In fact, for years it was a neglected area of medicine; and one that endured willful neglect after falling victim to the war on drugs. Over- ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
5 Nov 2009
Consumer Affairs, a publication that should not be confused with Consumer Reports, has reported STATS material before; but this morning, it isn’t happy with us. In fact, it’s so unhappy that we criticized Consumer Reports for its new study on BPA in ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
4 Nov 2009
Every flu season doctors note that many people mistake having a bad cold for the flu, but that their symptoms, even if flu- like, do not mean they have the flu. So what do you think happened when the Centers for Disease Control called 10,000 people by ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
22 Oct 2009
Wired has published a dazzling and timely story on the rising toll of childhood diseases in the U.S. due to the increasing numbers of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. Author, Amy Wallace, correctly notes that this issue has bridged those ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
20 Oct 2009
In the history of medicine, nothing has been used so widely and to so little effect as Hirudo Medicinalis--better known as the leech. For two millennia, leeches were used to balance the humors--or to drain the patient of "excess" blood and other ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
Forbes,
15 Oct 2009
A notable drop in crime in the U.S. in the 1990s, particularly violent crime, appears to have been mirrored by the introduction of new and more effective drugs to treat mental illness. That’s the conclusion of an intriguing National Bureau of Economic ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
29 Sep 2009
Athletes – particularly athletes who do a lot of weight training – have long exposed a key qualitative flaw in the way medical researchers calculate whether a person is overweight or obese. Body Mass Index (BMI) is determined by dividing your weight by ...
From TREVOR BUTTERWORTH,
STATS Blog,
22 Sep 2009
