American Council on Science and Health

As US Traffic Deaths Soar, Drivers Still Ignore Most Effective Protection - Last year roughly 17,000 car occupants nationwide needlessly died because they failed to take just three seconds inside the vehicle to virtually guarantee their safety. The three-point seat belt, a Swedish engineer's breakthrough invention in 1959, remains the single most effective automotive safety feature ever created. But it's being ignored too often, which explains the current, sharp rise in traffic fatalities -- and the biggest one-year spike in 50 years. Read more

Science Literacy Assaulted: Anti-GMO Propaganda Invades NY State Parent-Teacher Association - A proposed resolution by the New York State PTA, to be voted on at its November convention, supports mandatory labeling and a GMO ban from school food. The resolution, which is shocking coming from such an organization, is packed full of pseudoscientific thinking and anti-biotechnology propaganda. Read more

Benefits of Smoking Cessation or Harm Reduction by Vaping - What exactly happens to the lungs when someone stops smoking and starts vaping? A new study in Clinical Science tries to answer that question. The authors sought to evaluate the impact of smoking cessation on lung function and smoking-related symptoms, using electronic cigarettes. Read more

EPA States That Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer – Again - For the second time this year, the EPA has published a report placing glyphosate in the "not likely to be carcinogenic to humans" category. Read more

Working While Sick Is Dumb — But We Do It Anyway - Showing up to work at all costs is very much the American way. Called "presenteeism" — the opposite of absenteeism — it's when workers come to their place of business instead of recovering from whatever ails them. This behavior, which accounts for 75 percent of productivity loss, also racks up a number of health issues: fatigue, depression, sleep disorders and anxiety. Read more