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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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When Searching for a Physician, What's Important?
What the Hulk? 9/11 Truther Mark Ruffalo Testifies to Congress on...
Higher Drug Costs, and the Increased Use of Medications and Co-...
Dueling Visions of Tomorrow's World
2 Chemistry Professors Arrested for Having a Common Chemical. Were...
Traffic Violence: Elizabeth Warren Redefines 'Car Accident'
Drawing Back The Curtain On Facebook's Vaccination Advertising
Prince Andrew, Under Questioning, Doesn't Break a Sweat
The Darkside of Healthcare Consolidation
Optimal Medical Care Is As Good As Expensive Stents and Surgery for...
What I'm Reading (Nov. 15)
Fix America's Workaholic Culture: Make Every Weekend Three Days...
Chemicals & Chemistry
2 Chemistry Professors Arrested for Having a Common Chemical. Were They Making Meth?
Starving Environmentalists And Other Thanksgiving Cheer
Bleach Death of Restaurant Manager Can Be Explained By The Simplest Chemical Reaction
Diazomethane: A Deadly, Explosive, Carcinogenic Gas Made From Another Carcinogen. Aside From That It's Fine.
Can Silver Chloride Possibly Be Interesting? You Bet.
Tincture of Elderberry: How a Professor Poisoned Herself with Cyanide
What's Killing Vapers? A Conversation with Steve 'The Mad Chemist'
Alkalizing the Body?
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Food & Nutrition
Dueling Visions of Tomorrow's World
Calorie Counts on Menus Have Virtually No Impact On What We Eat
Study Says Sugar Consumption Linked to Acne, But There's a Lot We Don't Know
Whole Foods Sells Both 'Nitrate-Free Meat' and Nitrate Supplements. Yup.
Beer Flavor, Not Alcohol, May Be What Makes Drinkers Happy
Acai Bowl? You Might as Well Just Eat Froot Loops
The Red Meat Controversy: Where's the Beef?
No Need to Fear Fructose!
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Biomedicine & Biotech
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
Electrocardiograms Can Predict Our Gender And Maybe Our Age - Can It Tell Our Future?
Can We Blame Our Behavior On Our Genes? Bad Genes!
Immunotherapy for Migraines: Attack of the Antibodies
Genetically Modified People: Gene Editing Arrives in the Clinic
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Higher Drug Costs, and the Increased Use of Medications and Co-payments
Non-Opioid Drugs That Can Be Dangerous and Habituating. Should We Ban Them?
Ohio's Opioid Overdose Deaths and Seizures of Fentanyl
Record-Time FDA Approval of Human Insulin In 1982: When Genetic Engineering Came of Age
Medicare's Trick or Treat Is Here
Starving Cancer by Cutting Off Its Favorite Foods, Glucose and Glutamine
Worried About Your Elderly Mother's Pain? You Should Be
Stuart Levy, Giant in the Fight Against Resistance, is Gone
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Policy & Ethics
Surgeon General Endorses Dubious Research Again, This Time on Vaping
CVS's HealthHubs: So Far, More About Revenue Than Healthcare
The 'Woke' Lancet Asks if It's Acceptable to Have Children
Scientific Transparency, the New Trump Administration Proposal
STEM-ming the Slide of Our Educational System
War on Drugs Meets War on Vaping – This Won’t End Well
Academic Bias Against Industry Is Toxic Hypocrisy
Canada's Ban on Vaping Flavors: Any Lessons for the U.S.?
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Harm Reduction
Drawing Back The Curtain On Facebook's Vaccination Advertising
The Darkside of Healthcare Consolidation
Put That In Your Pipe And (Don't) Smoke It! Fentanyl Now In Vaping Cartridges
It's the Pot, Stupid. We Figured Out Vaping Weeks Ago.
Healthcare for Blacks: I'm Not Prejudice, The Healthcare Algorithm Made Me Do It
Gee, Pain Pills Are the Real Not Killers. And the Sun Rises in the East. Who Knew?
Defending the Value Proposition of Teaching Hospitals
Surgeons, Opioids & Patient Satisfaction
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Disease
When Searching for a Physician, What's Important?
Prince Andrew, Under Questioning, Doesn't Break a Sweat
Optimal Medical Care Is As Good As Expensive Stents and Surgery for Chronic Heart Disease
Loneliness and Heart Disease
Is Vaping a Gateway To Smoking?
Understanding Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
'We All Are Men, In Our Own Nature's Frail.' How Physiologic Frailty Precedes Clinically-Manifested Disease
Former Sen. Kay Hagan Died of Tickborne Powassan Virus. What Is That?
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Mental Health & Society
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
Conspiracy Theories Aren't on the Rise
Suicides Surge by 12% in UK, But They Can Be Prevented
4 Myths About Mass Shootings
Guns, Vaccines, and Rekindling Our American Sense of Duty
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Other Science News
What the Hulk? 9/11 Truther Mark Ruffalo Testifies to Congress on Science
What I'm Reading (Nov. 15)
What I'm Reading (Nov. 8)
ACSH in the Media: Daylight Saving Time Edition
How to Combine Experts' Predictions? It Depends on Whether it's Numbers or Words
Debunkers Debunked: Who Fact-Checks the Fact-Checkers?
What I'm Reading (Nov. 1)
Steven Pinker Is Wrong. We Do Live in a Post-Truth Society
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Parents & Kids
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
OshKosh B’gosh! 'Green America' Wants Your Kids To Go Naked
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