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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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East Palestine: Regulations Galore and Still a Failure
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The J-Man Chronicles: How the Vibrating Poop Pill Threatens Democracy
Greed is Good – An Update
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Podcast: Tylenol After Surgery is Useless; CVS Sued for Selling Homeopathic 'Remedies'
How the Media Got the Vinyl Chloride Risk All Wrong (Reason Magazine)
Podcast: 'Peer-Reviewed' Science Ain't So Scientific; Alcohol and Cancer Risk In Context
Putting the East Palestine Train Accident in Perspective
Vinyl Chloride and the Ohio Train Derailment
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People Worry Hysterically About Low Risk Carcinogens. And Then They Drink
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Food & Nutrition

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Podcast: Erythritol Probably Doesn't Cause Heart Disease; Dietary Supplements Can Kill
Bees – Parasites, Pesticides, and Climate Change
FDA Wants to Label Foods as 'Healthy'
Debunking the Erythritol Study
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NPR Frets About 'Weight Stigma' As Doctors Fight Childhood Obesity
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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How Biotechnology Overregulation Harms Farmers, Boosts Food Costs and Fuels Inflation
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Agricultural Biotechnology Will Help the Environment with Less Regulatory Hurdles
Will the Biden Administration’s Attempt to Boost the ‘Bioeconomy’ Do the Opposite?
How the Feds Froze Out a High-Tech Frost Fix
Biopharming Has a Tough Row to Hoe
The Strange Saga of the FDA’s Approval of an Alzheimer’s Drug
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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A Candidate for the 'Terrible-Legislation Hall of Fame'
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No, Homeopathic 'Remedies' and OTC Drugs Don't Belong on the Same Shelf
Which Drugs Really Help with Motion Sickness?
Antidepressants Fail for Pain: A Look at the Data
Don’t Be Bamboozled by Fake Medical Claims
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Policy & Ethics

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East Palestine: Regulations Galore and Still a Failure
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The J-Man Chronicles: How the Vibrating Poop Pill Threatens Democracy
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Designing Super-Smart Kids: Should the Public Have a Say?
Thinking Out Loud: An Abundance of Caution
Does it Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started?
Tylenol After Surgery? Why the Feds Make Patients Suffer Needless Pain (USA Today)
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Harm Reduction

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The Hidden Risk of Soy and Caffeine
Nursing Homes, Shift Work and COVID Vaccinations
Death By Dietary Supplement
Available, Affable, Able: The 3 A’s of Medical Referrals
Unintended Consequence of 'An Ounce of Prevention, Worth a Pound of Cure'
Walking Our Way Towards Health
The Real Risk to Firefighters
Fact vs. Fear
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Disease

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Do Masks Prevent COVID? (Spoiler Alert: Of Course, They Do)
County COVID Confusion
Every Picture Tells a Story: Deaths of Physicians
Making Cancer Treatment Smarter: A Process of Incremental Improvements
It Can Be Difficult to Know What to Believe, Even in Medical Articles
Americans’ Quest for ‘Authenticity’ is Often Ill-Informed (Part 1)
End-of-Life Lost in Translation
Waterborne Diseases: Still a Challenge
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Mental Health & Society

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An Interview with Steve, My Roomba
Social Media Use Causes Depression And Suicide? It's A Surprisingly Difficult Question To Answer
Every Picture Tells a Story: Mental Health Apps
4 Possible Benefits of the COVID Pandemic
How to Fight a Disinformation Campaign
COVID: Media Literally Makes Us Sick with Non-Stop Bad News
The Anti-Vaxx Playbook: How to Spread Anti-Vaccine Propaganda
A Solution to COVID Vaccine Refusal: Take the Jab or Lose Your Job
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Who Do You Trust? Edition
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Parents & Kids

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'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'
Recent SIDS Coverage Shows How Science Journalism Should Work
The Advantages of Breast Feeding
Teen Vaping: What We Get Wrong About This 'Serious Problem'
The Smell of a Mother
'Make Me a Fragrance That Smells Like Love'
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