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Dr. '''Gilbert Ross''' is the Medical/Executive Director for the [[American Council on Science and Health]] (ACSH).
"When American corporations come up against inconvenient science," writes Bill Hogan, "they call in the American Council on Science and Health." The group's medical / executive director, Dr. Gilbert Ross, has "defended the Wood Preservative Science Council, saying ... the arsenic in pressure-treated wood poses 'no risk to human health,'" and has written "on behalf of the farmed-salmon industry that the PCBs in fish 'are not a cause of any health risk, including cancer.'" [http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/11/paging_dr_ross.html]
And Ross' background is as spotty as his junk science-for-hire. For "his participation in a scheme that ultimately defrauded New York's Medicaid program of approximately $8 million," Ross had his medical license revoked, spent a year at a federal prison camp, and was barred from the Medicare and Medicaid programs for 10 years, after a judge found him to be "a highly untrustworthy individual." Ross regained his medical license last year. [http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/11/paging_dr_ross.html]
==External links==
*"[http://www.acsh.org/about/staffID.11/staff_detail.asp Gilbert Ross, M.D. Medical/Executive Director]", accessed October 2005.
*Bill Hogan "[http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/11/paging_dr_ross.html Paging Dr. Ross: A doctor who defends corporations from "inconvenient" science has a secret of his own], ''Mother Jones'', November/December 2005.
