James Enstrom resigned as ACSH trustee in 2022: management appalled he communicated with this blogger

Near the start of this highly irregular blog, I published an exchange with James Enstrom, a trustee of the American Council on Science and Health.

Now, I've noticed that Enstrom resigned from the ACSH board on July 1, 2022. His resignation was requested by ACSH's president, Thom Golab, in a letter dated April 6, but Enstrom at first refused to submit. 

Of Enstrom, Golab wrote: "Your actions in the past 2+ years have only served to undermine the interests of ACSH, including repeatedly denigrating the staff, diverting other Trustees' attention to your personal vendettas, and communicating your complaints to persons outside ACSH."

One of Golab's four proofs of Enstrom's heresies against ACSH is this:

In August 2018, you expressed your willingness to have a conversation about ACSH's "problems" in an email to Nicolas Martin, a former terminated employee (sic) who hosts a website with the sole mission of tarnishing the legacy of Elizabeth Whelan and ACSH.

And, so, the heretic was to be cancelled, because that's how "sound science" organizations work.

Nearly 34 years after I resigned from ACSH, without any suggestion by Whelan or anyone else that I do so, the current president of ACSH (not with the cult in 1989), claims, entirely falsely, that I was "terminated," which is to say fired. This falsehood is an advance over the fiction of his predecessor, Hank Campbell, who said of me, "the guy was an intern for a few months 30 years ago and resents not getting a job offer." Golab's version is that I was fired from the job I resent not getting. Dishonesty is embedded in ACSH's DNA. 

Enstrom eventually resigned on July 1 and posted online his resignation letter to the board chairman. In part it says this:

I am ending my involvement with ACSH because I am now working with several other organizations that appreciate my epidemiologic expertise and that allow me to express my views. In spite of my status as a Trustee and Scientific Advisor, ACSH has not allowed me to publish my views on ACSH.org. In addition, I have been unable to communicate with certain ACSH staff and my suggestions for improving ACSH have been rejected. Finally, I was informed on April 6, 2021 by President Golab that I have “lost the confidence of every other Trustee.”

Enstrom says that "to end my relationship with ACSH positively, I request that President Golab respond to my April 8, 2021 letter and correct the false statements that he made about me in his April 6, 2021 letter." ACSH ended up treating Enstrom much the same as UCLA had before. But when UCLA fired Enstrom, ACSH published a short but energetic note of support for him, saluting him for his "stellar reputation" and for being "someone who has dared to step outside the party line..." Unless the party line is ACSH's, naturally. Enstrom notes in one of his letters that he was a trustee and science advisor to ACSH for 37 years.

Dr. Enstrom also placed other materials online which surely mortified ACSH's board and management, including minutes of the June 2019 board meeting. The minutes mention the termination of the lease for a Washington, D. C. office, and, stunningly, of "the results of the May 2019 court proceedings with the 110 E. 42nd St NY landlord, SL Green that resulting (sic) in the court awarding landlord ACSH's security deposit of $76,000 for rent arrears, acknowledged the surrender of premises to SL Green, and allowed landlord to preserve right to pursue future arrears of the lease." Ouch!