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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
Does COVID's Hybrid Immunity Protect Best?
A Candidate for the 'Terrible-Legislation Hall of Fame'
Andrew Kolodny, With a Straight Face, Wants to Control Tranq By...
The Misinformation About Misinformation
The J-Man Chronicles: How the Vibrating Poop Pill Threatens Democracy
Greed is Good – An Update
Podcast: Erythritol Probably Doesn't Cause Heart Disease;...
PART II: Smart-Kid Creation – Parents vs. the Pros
Red Tide Hits Florida's Gulf Coast: A Dreaded Neurochemistry...
Thinking Out Loud: A Fish Tale
Antibiotic Biotech Execs Share Their Concerns
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The Misinformation About Misinformation
Red Tide Hits Florida's Gulf Coast: A Dreaded Neurochemistry Lesson From Hell
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Death By Dietary Supplement
Do Masks Prevent COVID? (Spoiler Alert: Of Course, They Do)
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Chemicals & Chemistry
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
Podcast: What Everyone Got Wrong About Gas Stoves; Secondhand Weed Smoke Causes Asthma?
People Worry Hysterically About Low Risk Carcinogens. And Then They Drink
4-ANPP: Fentanyl in Waiting
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Food & Nutrition
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
Breaking a Few Eggs
Americans’ Quest for ‘Authenticity’ Is Often Ill-Informed (Part 2)
NPR Frets About 'Weight Stigma' As Doctors Fight Childhood Obesity
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Biomedicine & Biotech
How Biotechnology Overregulation Harms Farmers, Boosts Food Costs and Fuels Inflation
Genetic Engineering Critic Vandana Shiva's Anti-Modernity Crusade Threatens the World's Poor
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
What Makes Omicron Special? Centaurus Gives Us a Clue
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
A Candidate for the 'Terrible-Legislation Hall of Fame'
Antibiotic Biotech Execs Share Their Concerns
Why is That Hideous Prevagen Commercial Allowed on TV?
The Newest, Best COVID Treatment Could Be the One You Can’t Get
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
East Palestine: Regulations Galore and Still a Failure
Andrew Kolodny, With a Straight Face, Wants to Control Tranq By Scheduling It
The J-Man Chronicles: How the Vibrating Poop Pill Threatens Democracy
PART II: Smart-Kid Creation – Parents vs. the Pros
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
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
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
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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Other Science News
The Misinformation About Misinformation
Greed is Good – An Update
Thinking Out Loud: A Fish Tale
What I’m Reading (Mar. 9)
What I'm Reading (Mar. 2)
Strangling the Environment
Every Picture Tells a Story: Who Do You Trust? Edition
What I'm Reading (Feb. 23)
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Parents & Kids
'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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