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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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BBC Report: 210 Dead in Iran from Coronavirus. How Many Are Infected?
'New' Post-Op Vomiting Drug Doesn't Spew Out Much...
What I'm Reading (Feb 28)
EPA Refutes Study Claiming Glyphosate Boosts Cancer Risk
Coronavirus: When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind
Everglades' Deadly Manchineel Tree: Don't Hug This One
How to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine
Update on Transparency at ClinicalTrials.gov
ACSH in the Media: Fat Tuesday Edition
Stanton Glantz and His Retracted Study: A Look at the Human Side of...
Confused About Obesity, Supplements and Organic Food? Here's A...
Hey Pops, Pass the Joint: Boomers & Marijuana Use
Chemicals & Chemistry
EPA Refutes Study Claiming Glyphosate Boosts Cancer Risk
What is Toxicology? And Who is a Toxicologist?
Introducing Dr. Michael Dourson, America's Toxicologist
How the 'World's Smelliest Substance' Saves Lives
Skatole - A Natural Monstrosity in Perfume, Parliaments, Produce and Poop
Pink, Orange and Green Urine & a Color Chemistry Lesson? Oui
Esters: Nature's Parfumerie
BPA Alarmists Are Beating A Dead Monomer - Enough Already
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Food & Nutrition
Confused About Obesity, Supplements and Organic Food? Here's A Handbook For Busting Nutrition Myths
Activated Almonds? You Must be Nuts!
Fishy Science: The Environmentally Dangerous Fish Stick?
Low Carb or Low Fat?
Can Education Reduce Fears of Genetic Modification?
Listeria or Hysteria? Why Brits Fear American Chlorinated Chicken Imports
Got Milk? Milk, Telomeres & Lifespan
JAMA Spotlights Conflicts of Interest With 'Anti-Meat' Advocates. Are We Surprised?
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Biomedicine & Biotech
How to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine
From Math To Politics, Some Problems Don’t Have Solutions (Part II)
High-Tech Gets The Headlines But Low-Tech Can Cut Health Care Costs And Save Lives
How to Make Money by Spreading Anti-GMO Propaganda
Release the Franken-Nuts! GMO Chestnut Trees May Repopulate Forests
The Economic Conundrum for Antibacterial Drugs
Much of the Buzz About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Is Wrong
NYT's Eric Lipton Defends Anti-Vaxxers as Measles Ravages Europe
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
'New' Post-Op Vomiting Drug Doesn't Spew Out Much Benefit
Stewardship vs. Financial Incentives: A False Choice
Where are the Professional Societies?
CDC Finally Gets Vaping Right, While FDA Permits New Cigarettes
5 Things You Might Not Know About Heroin
BARDA, Paratek and Pull Incentives: Funding Antibiotic Research?
4 Prescription Drugs People Love
Wake Up! There's A New Sleeping Pill
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Policy & Ethics
Update on Transparency at ClinicalTrials.gov
Who is Responsible When A Vaccine Causes Injury?
UK Health Authorities Have More Guts than American Counterparts
Environmentalists Want Electric Cars, Block Construction of Electric Car Plant
Meth is Back Like Never Before. Blundering Opioid Policies Largely to Blame.
How Much Do Non-Profit Hospitals Give Back to Their Community?
E&E News Pollutes The Air Over The EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
UCS, Environmentalists Only Want to Save Planet if Labor Unions Agree
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Harm Reduction
For Rehabilitation, It's Often Location, Location, Location
NASEM Makes a Major Plea for Harm Reduction in Drug Policy
The Benefits of Air Pollution Control: Where’s the Beef?
A New Form of Health Inequality
Driving with Distraction
Vaping: Does the American Lung Association Have a Financial Conflict of Interest?
Often Wrong, Never In Doubt
ACSH Explains: Measuring Particulate Matter and Health
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Disease
BBC Report: 210 Dead in Iran from Coronavirus. How Many Are Infected?
Coronavirus: When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind
The Media Fail Miserably at Coronavirus Coverage
Cell Phones, Cancer, and Coronavirus: Tucker Carlson Spreads Conspiracy Theories
Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg and Heart Disease
How Dangerous Is Wuhan Coronavirus?
WHO Goes PC In Renaming Wuhan Virus
Coronavirus: We Should Be Washing Our Hands, Not Wringing Them
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Mental Health & Society
From Math To Politics, Some Problems Don’t Have Solutions (Part III)
Social Media Makes YOU Part of the Fake News Problem
Fertility Rate Hits All-Time Low, But U.S. on Track for 400 Million in 2050s
Don't Abolish Billionaires. The World Is a Better Place Because of Them
Traffic Violence: Elizabeth Warren Redefines 'Car Accident'
Fix America's Workaholic Culture: Make Every Weekend Three Days Long
Lundy Bancroft: An Anti-Vaxxer Who Thinks All Men Are Abusers
Scientific American Says 5G Is Dangerous, Vegetables Are Junk Food
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Other Science News
What I'm Reading (Feb 28)
Everglades' Deadly Manchineel Tree: Don't Hug This One
ACSH in the Media: Fat Tuesday Edition
Stanton Glantz and His Retracted Study: A Look at the Human Side of Science
Hey Pops, Pass the Joint: Boomers & Marijuana Use
IFLScience Flagged by Facebook for Spreading Misinformation
What I'm Reading (Feb. 21)
Bug Fat Waffles, Shrink-Wrapped Passengers, and a Snake Orgy. It's Bizzaro News Time!
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Parents & Kids
Household Cleaners & Indoor Air Pollution: Are We Cleaning Ourselves to Death?
95% of Baby Food Tainted with Toxic Metals? Don't Panic
Are Immunization Schedules Evidence-Based?
Bedtime Stories in the Digital Age
Are Home Births Safe? Canadian Midwives Say Yes
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Language is an Evolutionary Force
Do 3D Scans Show More Trauma To Baby's Head At Birth Than We Knew?
U.S. Births Hit Lowest Number in 32 Years
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