American Council on Science and Health
The American Council on Science and Health is a pro-science, research and education organization operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Council was founded in 1978 by a group of scientists with a singular focus: to publicly support and utilize evidence-based science and medicine and to educate the public by debunking junk science and exaggerated health scares.
Following the Data: Newest COVID Vaccination Recommendations
2023年9月19日 · Last week, the FDA and CDC presented their recommendations for the newest round of COVID-19 vaccines. As with everything COVID, there are proponents and detractors, or, putting it another way, both knowledgeable experts and disinformation-spreading attention-seekers. The reality is that a group of experts made a judgment based on actual data.
Global Warming: It’s Complicated - American Council on Science …
3 天之前 · Global warming, a topic that’s simultaneously about science and politics. The media loves to spin a nice, tidy solution: stop burning fossil fuels, cut CO2, and voilà — problem solved! Except, there’s a little more to it. From methane to black carbon, volcanic eruptions, and even the occasional El Niño throwing a tantrum, the planet’s warming is more like a complicated web of ...
About ACSH | American Council on Science and Health
About the American Council on Science and Health The American Council on Science and Health is a pro-science, research and education organization operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Council was founded in 1978 by a group of scientists with a singular focus: to publicly support and utilize evidence-based science and medicine and to educate the public by debunking ...
Volunteers Infected with COVID Virus: An Unethical Human …
6 天之前 · Volunteers were infected with the COVID virus in order to ascertain whether there were cognitive effects of infection. It represented the failure of safeguards against unethical experiments. The notion of human medical experimentation elicits visceral repulsion. Nevertheless, we allow such research ...
About American Council on Science and Health
About the American Council on Science and Health The American Council on Science and Health is a pro-science consumer advocacy organization based in New York City. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and if you want to make a tax-deductible donation you can do so here. Our Mission
COVID-19: Help Is On the Way, But Where?
2021年8月12日 · After a short gestation period, COVID-19 vaccines arrived throughout the nation and became part of the daily scene. Questions about which vaccine to get have diminished replaced with concerns about who is getting shots and who …
ACSH Explains: Mediation Analysis
2022年4月27日 · Mediation analysis is a statistical technique, part of the family of regression analysis which searches for relationships between two or more variables. Specifically, mediation analysis seeks to tease out the relative impact or lack of impact of a variable on outcome. It lends greater or lesser certainty to the role of a variable in a chain of ...
COVID-19: Breaking Through is Not That Hard to Do
2022年2月18日 · COVID-19 statistics [1] 24% of the population has been infected. 53% of cases have been hospitalized. Of those, 19% were in ICU. 1.2% of cases resulted in death. 64% of our population has been fully vaccinated. Using a national data set, we extracted weekly COVID-19 outcome data on about 150 million individuals by vaccination status; we focused ...
From the Desk of Thom Golab, ACSH President
By Thom Golab — Nov 28, 2022. The American Council on Science and Health recently held its fall meeting of the Board of Trustees, which oversees ACSH’s governance and provides me with great counsel. It is quite a distinguished group. I want to take a moment to introduce our newest trustees, Drs. Nan Hayworth and Mike (Mick) Hitchcock.