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FYI: ACSH is "American Council on Science and Health", now celebrating it's 25th Anniversary.

CR cites unpublished European studies ...

This fact I find to be particularly damning. I could write a report claiming the moon is cottage cheese. So long as it is unpublished, it is not peer-reviewed and thus nobody has access to criticize it (officially). In a perfect world, no unpublished research would ever be cited for that reason. I have ceased subscribing to CR several years back when their political biases started to outweigh their probity.

[libertylady]

I found this info on a website which says that the American Council on Science and Health is just a front group for industry. In other words it is a propaganda arm for industry.

"During its first 15 years of operation, ACSH published the names of its institutional funders,but it has stopped doing this in recent years, making it harder to identify where all of its money comes from. In the latest years for which information is available, some 40 percentof ACSH's budget was supplied directly by industry, including a long list of food, drug and chemical companies that have a vested interest in supporting Whelan's message. ACSH funders have included the following:

ALCOA Foundation
Allied Signals Foundation, Inc.
American Cyanamid Company
American Meat Institute
Amoco Foundation, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Foundation
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Ashland Oil Foundation
Boise Cascade Corporation
Bristol-Myers Fund, Inc.
Burger King Corporation
Campbell Soup Company
Carnation Company
Chevron Environmental Health Center
Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Coca-Cola Company
Consolidated Edison
Cooper Industries Foundation
Adolph Coors Foundation
Crystal Trust
Shelby Cullum Davis Foundation
Dow Chemical Canada, Inc.
Dow Corning Corporation
E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company
Ethyl Corporation
Exxon Corporation
FMC Foundation
Ford Motor Company Fund
Frito-Lay
General Electric Foundation
General Mills, Inc.
General Motors Foundation
Gerber Products Company
Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
Hershey Foods Corporation Fund
Heublein, Inc.
ICI Americas Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson's Wax Fund, Inc.
Kellogg Company
Ester A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc.
David H. Koch Charitable Foundation
Kraft Foundation
Kraft General Foods
Licensed Beverage Information Council
Thomas J. Lipton Foundation, Inc.
M&M Mars
Merck Company Foundation
Mobil Foundation, Inc.
Monsanto Fund
National Agricultural Chemicals Association
National Dairy Council
National Soft Drink Association
National Starch and Chemical Foundation
Nestlé
Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation, Inc.
Northwood Institute
NutraSweet Company
John M. Olin Foundation Inc.
Oscar Mayer Foods
Pepsico Foundation Inc. (Pepsi-Cola)
Pfizer Inc.
Pillsbury Company
PPG Industries Foundation
Procter & Gamble Fund
Ralston Purina
Rohm & Haas Company
Salt Institute
Sarah Scaife Foundation, Inc.
Schultz Foundation
G.D. Searle Charitable Trust
Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons, Inc.
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Stare Fund
Starr Foundation
Sterling Drug, Inc.
Stouffer Company
Stroh Brewery Company
Sugar Association, Inc.
Sun Company, Inc.
Syntex Corporation
Union Carbide Corporation
Uniroyal Chemical Co.
USX Corp.
Warner-Lambert Foundation
Wine Growers of California"