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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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Is Removing Sesame Street From Diapers A Bridge Too Far?
Canada's Single-Payer Health System 'Satisfices'
Remember When Climate Change Meant the End of Coffee? Never Mind
Nexus Of Hype: Household Chemicals Cause Obesity, And the Undefined...
Magic Methyl - A Chemical So Bad Chemists Won't Use It
Washington State's Health Care Waste
Washington Post Goes Science Conspiracy Theory, Faux Health Advocates...
UCSF: An Academic Home for Conspiracy Theorists, Anti-Vaxxers
Pharma and Hospital Systems Now Playing the Drug-Pricing Blame Game
Parents, Stop Kids' Need for Tommy John Surgeries, Says Tommy...
Who Is Hurting? The Prevalence of Chronic Pain in America
Is Your Body Language Used In Virtual Reality Games A Privacy Concern?
Chemicals & Environment
Magic Methyl - A Chemical So Bad Chemists Won't Use It
Put Vox In The Litter Box - Same Old Plastic Scares
Chemistry: Why Aged Red Wines Taste Better
Some Cool Chemistry - Using Light To Turn Waste Plastic Into Hydrogen Fuel
Formaldehyde Is So Dangerous That You'd Be Dead Without It
Cloudy, With A Chance Of Phytoplankton
FDA Fires Warning Shot at California over Coffee-Cancer Controversy
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On N-Methylpyrrolidone?
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Food & Nutrition
Superfoods Or Superfads? Dr. David Seres Weighs In
Tiny, 12-Man Study + Bold Headline = Misleading Results
Flava Flav Is Not A Food Preservative, But Flavonoids Are
Sorry, Your Diet Coke Is Not Calorie-Free
Get Checked: Even Fit, Middle-Aged Athletes Can Have Heart Disease
Happy Meals Get A Nudge Or Is It A Shove From California's Legislature
John Ioannidis Aims His Bazooka at Nutrition Science
According to PETA, Veggie Burgers Cause Cancer
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Biology & Biotech
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?
Genome-Wide Association Studies - ACSH Explains
In Making Some Antibiotics, Bacteria Put Organic Chemists To Shame
'Kill and Release' Antibacterial Surface
Darkness May Cause Spinal Abnormalities in Cave Fish
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Health & Medicine
Pharma and Hospital Systems Now Playing the Drug-Pricing Blame Game
When Impaled, Luck And Real Estate Matter Most
Are Probiotics 'Nobiotics'?
If Computer Models Counted, 8,000 New Antibiotics Would Be In The Pipeline
WebDumB's Insane Germaphobic Advice
Which OTC Painkillers Can You Take Together?
Aspirin Flops Big Time In Heart Study. Is It R.I.P For ASA?
Zap! Laser Repair Of Your Torn Retina: An Interview With Royce Chen, M.D.
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Policy & Ethics
Who Is Hurting? The Prevalence of Chronic Pain in America
NHS In Quicksand As Faces ‘National Emergency’
Is Paying A Salary To Living Donors Just Putting A Price Tag On Organs?
Powerball Is For Suckers
Happy Birthday To Government-Sponsored Chemophobia: The Delaney Clause Turns 60
Moral Judgments Are Better Left To Humans Not Machines
A Stinking, Pathetic Double Standard at the Heart of Scientific Journals
Former CDC Head Tom Frieden Is Back In The News, And It Isn't For His Terrible Science
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Harm Reduction
Parents, Stop Kids' Need for Tommy John Surgeries, Says Tommy John
More European Kids Are Smoking. If Only There Was an Alternative
Heart Attacks in San Diego Area Plunge; Data-Sharing May Explain It
FDA Issues Warning Letters and Fines To 1,300 Stores Over E-Cigarette Sales To Minors
Choosing Caesarian Sections Is About Risks
Taxation Is The Cost-Effective Means To Reduce Alcohol Consumption - Are We Surprised?
For Heat-Stricken Athletes, Ice Baths Save Lives. So Coaches, Where Are They?
Irony Alert: FDA Announces Recall of Homeopathic Products For Harmful Microbes, Not Unproven Health Claims
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Disease
Is There A Connection Between Cancer And Diabetes?
Could Biting Nails Cause Skin Cancer? Yes, Possibly
Linking Genetics To Disease - The View From Our Chemical Messengers
'Bionic Pancreas' Begins Clinical Trials
The French Are Scared of Vaccines, as Measles Ravages Europe
We Are Now Harming Ourselves To Death (More Than Diabetes Is)
In Alaska, Getting Mumps Is Preferable to Getting Vaccinated
The Natural History of High Blood Pressure
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Neuroscience & Social Sciences
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
Phobias Predict Mental Health Problems
The Most Common Methods of Murder
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News & Views
Canada's Single-Payer Health System 'Satisfices'
Washington State's Health Care Waste
UCSF: An Academic Home for Conspiracy Theorists, Anti-Vaxxers
Rules or Guardrails: Do Physicians Ignore Practice Guidelines?
Why Americans Distrust the Media
The Tyranny of the Anti-Vaxxers
Supremely Satisfied at 60, When Self-Esteem Peaks
Antics Of Kavanaugh Hearings Not Unlike Medical Practice
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Parents & Kids
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
The WSJ Helps Pathologize Infancy
It Is A Sad Day When Pediatricians Need To Prescribe ‘Play Time’
Do You See A Baby Bottle As Half Full Or Half Empty?
What Humans Can Learn From The Mating Habits Of Armadillos
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