1. thepumphandle
  2. David Michaels Wins Sigma Xi Award

David Michaels Wins Sigma Xi Award

By sb admin on January 28, 2009.

Weâre delighted to learn that The Pump Handleâs own David Michaels has won the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award from Sigma Xi, the international honor society of research scientists and engineers. The award honors people who are highly visible and prominent spokespersons for the public understanding and appreciation of science.

Our regular readers probably already know that David champions the use of science to protect public health, whether the hazard is a butter-flavoring chemical or a drug. Heâs known for exposing how product defense firms, sequestered science, and manufactured uncertainty can harm us. You can read all about these problems and solutions in his acclaimed book Doubt is Their Product: How Industryâs Assault on Science Threatens Your Health.

Sigma Xi also announced three other awards: the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement went to physicist Deborah S. Jin; the Watson Chubb Award for Innovation to food-safety scientist Timothy D. Phillips; and the Young Investigator Award to Brandt F. Eichman.

Weâve posted a news release at DefendingScience.org, and Sigma Xi has details on all four awards.

Tags
Uncategorized

More like this

David Michaels Speaks at Google
Last month, David Michaels spoke to Google employees about his book Doubt is Their Product: How Industryâs Assault on Science Threatens Your Health, and Google has now posted the video on YouTube as part of their Authors@Google series. The Google employees asked astute questions (starting around…
Scurrilous attacks on Obama's OSHA nominee (no surprise)
It was only a matter of time before the Right Wing smear machine set its sites on Obama's nominee for Director of OSHA, Dr. David Michaels. And now that time has come. David is a friend and colleague and his name is not a stranger here (and here, here, here and probably other posts as well). His…
Beryllium: Science or Public Relations?
Did Brush Wellman, the worldâs largest producer of beryllium products, hire Hill and Knowlton, the public relations giant behind Big Tobaccoâs campaign to fool the public about the hazards of smoking, to help Brush refute reports of berylliumâs toxicity? Brush says no, but we have the smoking guns…
Diacetyl Still Around, Still a Problem
Diacetyl â the butter-flavoring chemical linked to severe lung disease in food and flavoring workers â hasnât been in the news much recently. It got a lot of attention in September, when we drew attention to the case of a Colorado man who appeared to have developed bronciolitis obliterans from…