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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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Three Patterns of Knee Pain May Help Identify the Cause
To Disrupt Healthcare, Maybe Consider Listening To A Doctor
I Sing The Body's Microbiome
ACSH in the Media: Healthline, New Zealand Radio, Seattle Radio, and...
Antibiotic Awareness Week - Talk vs. Action?
What's the Blood-Brain Barrier & How Do You Cross It?
The Most Insidious Feature Of The Electronic Medical Record
Cigarette Use Has Collapsed, So Media Scares People About Vaping...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks Ribs After Fall. What Does That...
Radio Broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds' Continues to...
2018 Midterms: Science Won and Lost at the Ballot Box
Chemicals & Environment
If You Buy Organic Wine, You May Be Funding Far More Soil Damage
There's Gold In Them Thar Mold
Weed Control: EPA Extends Registration, Sets New Guidelines For Dicamba Use
Colorado Proposition 112: Anti-Fracking Law Gets Bipartisan Opposition
Sierra Club's Ignorance of Chemistry Reaches New Heights
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Perchloroethylene?
Phantom Particles: Estimate Claims PM2.5 Air Restrictions In China Will Mean Virtual Lives Saved
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Pigment Violet 29?
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Food & Nutrition
Should You Take Probiotics When You're on Antibiotics?
I Sing The Body's Microbiome
National Survey Finds 40% Believe Cancer Can Be Cured Without Medicine
No, Organic Food Doesn't Reduce Cancer Risk. That's Biologically Impossible
The French Chime in on Organic Food and Health
Key to Maximizing Bone Density: Play Sports Regularly While Young
Sea Salt: Possibly The World's Dumbest Product
Sperm’s Baggage: What They Bring to the Party
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Biology & Biotech
What's the Blood-Brain Barrier & How Do You Cross It?
Could We Turn Insects into Biological Weapons?
Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test Tells Us Nothing
Conventional Farms Are Better for Environment than Organic Farms
Facilitating the Adoption of Genetically Modified Crops: The Role of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Time To Embrace Genetically Modified Mosquitoes To End Their Disease Transmission
Sugarcane Genome Finally Gets Sequenced - 80 Percent Of The Sugar Market Rejoices
Could 'Smoking Gun' DNA Sequence Lead Detectives to Biological Terrorist?
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Health & Medicine
To Disrupt Healthcare, Maybe Consider Listening To A Doctor
Antibiotic Awareness Week - Talk vs. Action?
R&D Costs: Not a Simple Calculation
A New Way To 'Crowd-Fund' Pharmaceuticals
Oft-Maligned Triclosan's Good Side: Treating Cystic Fibrosis Infections
Not All Pain Is Bad
After Mass Shootings, Blood Provided by Well-Meaning Donors is Often Discarded
Lowering Drug Prices in 3 Easy Pieces
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Policy & Ethics
2018 Midterms: Science Won and Lost at the Ballot Box
Who Is Telling The Truth About Prescription Opioid Deaths? DEA? CDC? Neither?
Do You Own Your Healthcare Data? Not According to Government or Healthcare Businesses
The Slippery Slope Of Forgoing Informed Consent In Clinical Trials
In California, Trees Have A Prop 65 Cancer Warning
1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scientific Fraud
USDA's National Organic Program Won't Answer Questions About Organic Food
Ethanol Is Bad Science And Bad Policy
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Harm Reduction
The Most Insidious Feature Of The Electronic Medical Record
Cigarette Use Has Collapsed, So Media Scares People About Vaping Instead
Is The Fragility Index A Clinical Guide In Our Use of Guidelines?
Halloween Means More Pedestrian Deaths - But Don't Freak Out About Absolute Risk
The UK Government Says E-Cigarettes Are Good, the US Says They're Bad: What's The Truth?
False Hope From Lotto Safer Bet Than Some Medical Crowdfunding
‘If It Bleeds, It Leads’ News Media Is Terrible For Vaccine Compliance
‘A Star Is Born’ For World Mental Health Day
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Disease
Tis the Season
Three Patterns of Knee Pain May Help Identify the Cause
It's Not Just the Flu: Many Infectious Diseases Are Seasonal
Homeless People Dying of Hepatitis A
Adopting Stray Cats: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Hint: Rabies)
Influenza Vaccination is Global, But Not the Same
Rethinking Diabetes
How Vaccines Help Prevent Another Flu Pandemic
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Neuroscience & Social Sciences
Urine Test Could Diagnose Depression, Anxiety
Work Continues on a Pill to Treat Concussions
Making Bad Behavior Rational: Criminals Regard Risk Differently Than Everyone Else
Man's Bipolar Mood Cycles Linked to the Moon
Testosterone May Make Men More Honest
No, CTE Didn't Make a Man Steal an Airplane from Seattle's Airport
Most Dangerous Drivers Ranked by State, Age, Race, and Sex
Women Fear Afterlife More than Men
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News & Views
ACSH in the Media: Healthline, New Zealand Radio, Seattle Radio, and More!
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Breaks Ribs After Fall. What Does That Mean?
Radio Broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds' Continues to Haunt Us
Hit Hollywood Film ‘A Star Is Born' Creates Controversy Abroad
In Giving or Receiving, Who Benefits From Advice?
80,000 Died from Flu (and Still 0 from GMOs)
Please, Beto O’Rourke, Drive Safely
Trick or Treat? FDA Approves A New 23andMe Report
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Parents & Kids
What Should We Really Worry About For Halloween?
Sanitizing Childhood of Adversity Chips Away At Resilience
How Should A Baby Be Born?
Don’t Wish Away The Good Stuff In Parenting
Is Removing Sesame Street From Diapers A Bridge Too Far?
Nexus Of Hype: Household Chemicals Cause Obesity, And the Undefined Gut Microbiota Is Invoked Too
Is Your Body Language Used In Virtual Reality Games A Privacy Concern?
Evolutionary Mandate Of Fortnite? Team-Based Play Fighting - And Sports - Built Skills For War In Hunter-Gatherers
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