ACSH is calling on the public to put a halt to the manipulation of science.

The American Council on Science and Health, since 1978 America’s leading pro-science consumer advocacy group, has created a petition to let citizens show their disgust with how trial lawyers exploit the language of science to promote fear and doubt useful products in order to get rich.

“We see it time and again,” said ACSH President Hank Campbell. “Shoddy epidemiological data is tortured by professional expert witnesses until it confesses to something bizarre, lawyers file lawsuits, and companies settle because they know juries are going to be swayed more by emotion than data, and consumers pay the price with higher costs.”

The problem is how the language of science is manipulated by trial lawyers.