The costs to society - economically and socially - from setting policies based on fear rather than science are significant. The fear of synthetic chemicals diverts our focus and drains public funds from addressing documented dangers.

Styrene's recent listing as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" means something very different from how it is being framed by advocacy groups and the media—and this knowledge gap threatens to wreck legislative havoc across the country.

Cigarette smoke may not be an equal opportunity carcinogen.

At an October 12 conference, policymakers considered ways to more effectively deploy limited global environmental resources.

Snus in particular, and smokeless tobacco in general, provide clear, lifesaving advantages over smoking that antitobacco activists refuse to acknowledge.

What we need to know is how bad the EPA claims the air is, and whether that claim is credible.

Though DDT has proven to control malaria better than any other intervention, opposition to its use continues to mount.

Sciencepolicy-watchersnow have the President's Council on Bioethics in their crosshairs.