Gilbert Ross

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.'" [1]

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. [2]

External links

• "Gilbert Ross, M.D. Medical/Executive Director", accessed October 2005.
• Bill Hogan "Paging Dr. Ross: A doctor who defends corporations from "inconvenient" science has a secret of his own, Mother Jones, November/December 2005.
• Elizabeth Whelan, "Personal Reflections on a "Mother Jones" Article About a Friend and Colleague", ACSH In the News, October 20, 2005.