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Priorities Magazine Spring 2018
The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It
Priorities Magazine Winter 2018
Priorities Magazine Fall 2017
Little Black Book of Junk Science
Priorities Magazine Winter 2017
Should You Worry About Artificial Flavors Or Colors?
Should You Worry About Artificial Sweeteners?
Summer Health and Safety Tips
How Toxic Terrorists Scare You With Science Terms
Adult Immunization: The Need for Enhanced Utilization
Should You Worry About Salt?
Priorities Magazine Spring 2016
IARC Diesel Exhaust & Lung Cancer: An Analysis
Teflon and Human Health: Do the Charges Stick?
Helping Smokers Quit: The Science Behind Tobacco Harm Reduction
Irradiated Foods
Foods Are Not Cigarettes: Why Tobacco Lawsuits Are Not a Model for Obesity Lawsuits
The Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Review
Are "Low Dose" Health Effects of Chemicals Real?
The Effects of Nicotine on Human Health
Traditional Holiday Dinner Replete with Natural Carcinogens - Even Organic Thanksgiving Dinners
A Primer On Dental Care: Quality and Quackery
Nuclear Energy and Health And the Benefits of Low-Dose Radiation Hormesis
Priorities in Caring for Your Children: A Primer for Parents
Endocrine Disrupters: A Scientific Perspective
Good Stories, Bad Science: A Guide for Journalists to the Health Claims of "Consumer Activist" Groups
A Comparison of the Health Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Tobacco Use in America
Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Health
Irradiated Foods Fifth Edition
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Viral Diseases: What You Need To Know
Plastic Plague: Unwelcome Guests in Your Arteries?
Thinking Out Loud: Death from Drugs. Is it Overdoses, or Poisonings?
For (Key Lime) Pi Day: The World's Best Recipe
Great Women in Science: Caroline Herschel, Star-Gazer Extraordinaire...
What I'm Reading (Mar. 14)
Air Pollution: Do Accidents Matter?
The Media and I: Historic Medical Technologies
Every Picture Tells a Story: Are Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries...
Scientific Fraud in the Age of AI
Single Dose of LSD Can Treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder for Months...
Hangover Prevention: Hype or Hope?
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Air Pollution: Do Accidents Matter?
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Plastic Plague: Unwelcome Guests in Your Arteries?
Scientific Fraud in the Age of AI
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Chemicals & Chemistry
Hangover Prevention: Hype or Hope?
The Environmental Working Group Recycles Old Tricks: Now it's a 'New' Pesticide
Podcast: Tylenol Plus Advil Combo Equals Exploitation; Phony Pesticide Scares
Anatomy of a Pesticide Scare: The Phony Whistleblower Gambit
IARC Strikes Again, Misguidedly
Podcast: 'Non-GMO' Labels Don't Make Food Safer; Airhead Actress Peddles Useless 'Natural' Tylenol
If You're a *Poison Expert* it Is Unwise to Poison Your Wife. A Colchicine Lesson.
Garlic Breath? Mouthwash Won't Work. Here's Why
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Food & Nutrition
For (Key Lime) Pi Day: The World's Best Recipe
Every Picture Tells a Story: Urban Farming: Green Dreams’ Carbon Footprint
Decoding the Mystery Multivitamins and the Aging Brain
Obesity 'Bill of Rights' Won’t Solve America’s Weight Problem
Deciphering the Diet-Cancer Connection
The Glucose Goddess Jumps Into the Supplement Industry
If Your Child Can’t Eat More Than 340 Medium Apples Per Day, You Can Skip the Organics
Podcast: 6-Step Liver Cleanse?; Debunking 'Doctor' Josh Axe's Bad Nutrition Advice
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Biomedicine & Biotech
The Media and I: Enhancing the Soil to Improve Farming
Why Is Your Underwear Yellow in Front and Brown in the Back: A Chemistry Lesson From the Bowels of Hell
Could Llamas be the Answer to the 'Stomach Flu?' Not as Ridiculous as it Sounds.
The Tale of Human Insulin, FDA, and the Bureaucrat’s Mindset
Reduce Synthetic Fertilizers and Improve Yields? The Microbiome Revolution Comes to Agriculture.
Greenpeace’s Vile War on the Poor and Vulnerable
Regulation of Molecular Genetic Engineering Must Be Evidence-Based
Activist Vandana Shiva Is A Mortal Threat To the Most Vulnerable
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
The Media and I: Historic Medical Technologies
Single Dose of LSD Can Treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder for Months: Here’s Why
A New Drug Offers Hope For A Common, Life-Threatening Liver Disease
Podcast: Risks and Benefits of Legal Marijuana
Podcast: Prohibitionist Assault on Opioids Harms Cancer Patients
Does Vertex's Novel Pain Drug VX-548 Really Work? As Clear As Mud.
Proposing a Schedule Change for Marijuana
More Pharma Sleaze Involving GSK. Again. Welcome to Voltarengate.
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Policy & Ethics
Air Pollution: Do Accidents Matter?
Every Picture Tells a Story: Are Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Getting More Than a Faustian Bargain?
Podcast: Fraudulent Research Threatens Scientific Progress
Pandemics Breed Legal Crises
Censoring Science: ACSH Tackles COVID, Free Speech on 'The Vance Crowe Podcast'
Homicide, Domestic Violence, and the Second Amendment. If Related, How So?
Oregon Rolls Back New Drug War Strategy, Revert to Decades‐Old Approach Linked to Soaring Overdose Deaths
PART II: The Legalities of Pre-Natal Genetic Testing
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Harm Reduction
Thinking Out Loud: Death from Drugs. Is it Overdoses, or Poisonings?
Scientific Fraud in the Age of AI
Should We Fear the Sun ... or Sun Protection?
Podcast: Listen Up! The Surprising Link Between Zinc and Hearing Loss
ARMRA Colostrum: A Questionable Blend of Science-Washing and Wellness Hype
Arsenic is Everywhere!
Indoor Air Quality: Out of the Shadows, But Still on the Back Burner
The Media and I: The Need to Boost Vaccination Rates
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Disease
Viral Diseases: What You Need To Know
Plastic Plague: Unwelcome Guests in Your Arteries?
Don’t Underestimate the Economic Benefits of COVID Vaccines
Every Picture Tells a Story: Weighing In on Breast Cancer
TV Viewing: Is it Linked to Frequent Bathroom Trips?
Tinnitus: The Symphony in Your Head That No One Hears
Death Without Pain: An Interview With Laurie Engel
Navigating the Quirks of Blood Pressure Measurements
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Mental Health & Society
The Things We Do For Love: The Atomic Penile Pump From Hell
Is Porn Bad For You? A Skeptical Look at NPR's Dismissive Answer
Did the Fentanyl Wave Hit Oregon Just as Voters Decriminalized Drugs?
Does Social Media Have Anything in Common with Child Porn?
Many of Our Elected Officials Are Unfit to Serve. Medical Problems Are Sometimes the Cause.
Which Came First, the Cannabis or the Schizophrenia?
Does the Moon Make Us Mad?
An Interview with Steve, My Roomba
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Great Women in Science: Caroline Herschel, Star-Gazer Extraordinaire and Steward of a Celestial Salon
What I Am Reading March 7th
Thinking Out Loud: Holden Thorp Gives Everyone a Trophy
Absence of a Plant-Based Carburetor is Deeply Disturbing
What I'm Reading (Feb. 29)
The Validity of Much of Published Scientific Research is Questionable (Part 2)
What I'm Reading (Feb. 22)
The Validity Of Much Published Scientific Research Is Questionable (Part 1)
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Parents & Kids
Modern Salem-Witch Trials: Acetaminophen Actions for Autism
Are We Facing Another Coronavirus-Like Viral Pandemic?
Podcast: BMI is Racist? No, CDC, Men Can't Breastfeed
'Father's Milk': CDC's Science-Free Breastfeeding Advice
Baby Formula Shortage: Crisis, Or Ploy to Side-Step Liability?
'Holiday Heart' Can Make a Celebration One You Don’t Want to Remember
Autism and Baby Foods
Every Picture Tells a Story: Vaccinating 'The Children'
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