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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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Are You a Victim of 'TL,DR'?
What I'm Reading (Nov. 26)
MLS Soccer Shows Why Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Predictions...
COVID-19, Viral Load and Shedding: An Update
Can Fentanyl Be Curtailed By Banning The Chemicals Used To Make It?
COVID: Asymptomatic Cancer Patient Was a One-Woman Super-Spreader
Marketing's Holy Grail of Terms: Antioxidants
Thinking Aloud: Science and Politics
Evidence Pours More Cold Water on The False Narrative That...
Comparing COVID Vaccines: Pfizer vs. Moderna vs. AstraZeneca/Oxford
RNA is Less Stable Than DNA Because of One Lousy Oxygen Atom
Can We Create Strategic Lockdowns?
Chemicals & Chemistry
Perchlorate in Drinking Water
Briotech: Meet the Company That's a Real Son of a Bleach
The Environmental Defense Fund's Silly Food Chemical Claim
When it Comes to Chemicals, Silent Spring Institute Should Stay Silent
How Do Bacteria Eat Plastic?
You Need No Longer Fear Dr. Duck's Deadly Buttons!
An Abysmal Chemistry Lesson About Bismuth
Hair Dye and Cancer, the Chemistry Behind the Scare
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Food & Nutrition
Marketing's Holy Grail of Terms: Antioxidants
COVID-19 and Vitamin C Supplements: Illusory Truth or Fact?
The Secret Life (and Value) of Food Labels
Back Up a Bit: Is 'Reverse Dieting' the Key to Keeping Weight Off?
Mark Hyman, the 'Dr. Oz' of Nutrition, Says Food Is Killing People Like the Holocaust
Coffee, a Story of Two Beans
The Animal Given Antibiotic-Free Feed Probably Had Antibiotics Anyway
The Corn Oil Controversy: Are Polyunsaturated Fats Bad for Us?
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Biomedicine & Biotech
RNA is Less Stable Than DNA Because of One Lousy Oxygen Atom
Will COVID End the Anti-GMO Movement?
Governors Cuomo, Newsom Play Politics with Pfizer's Life-Saving COVID Vaccine
Why Pfizer's Vaccine Must Be Stored in the Deep, Deep Freeze
How Pfizer's RNA Vaccine Works
It's the Fentanyl, Stupid. But Politicians Still Target Pain Pills.
Gene Drives Could Kill Mosquitoes and Suppress Herpesvirus Infections
COVID: No, Coronavirus Wasn't Created in a Laboratory. Genetics Shows Why.
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Can Fentanyl Be Curtailed By Banning The Chemicals Used To Make It?
Comparing COVID Vaccines: Pfizer vs. Moderna vs. AstraZeneca/Oxford
Drs. Bloom and Seley-Radtke in Duluth News Tribune: 'Vaccines are close, but we'll still need antiviral drugs'
2 Great-Looking Vaccines, But There Are Still Important Questions
Should You Be Allowed to Drive After Being Given Propofol?
Opioid Crisis: Purdue Pharma Got What It Deserved
COVID: Trial Proves that Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Help Treat Coronavirus
Every Picture Tells a Story: Operation Warp Speed
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Policy & Ethics
Evidence Pours More Cold Water on The False Narrative That Prescriptions Caused the Opioid Crisis
Every Picture Tells a Story: What Physicians Are Thinking
Virtue Signaling in Europe Blocks Technology and Progress
Are Placebo-Controlled Vaccine Trials Ethical Once a Vaccine is Approved?
How Washington Governor Jay Inslee Stole Thanksgiving. Is Christmas Next?
Operation Warp Speed: Not So Fast!
My 94-Year Old Mother is Not a Drug Addict. But She's Being Treated Like One.
Drs. Bloom and Seley-Radtke in the Baltimore Sun: 'Herd Immunity' is a Bad Idea.
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Harm Reduction
Can We Create Strategic Lockdowns?
The Strategic National Stockpile: A Logistical Chain of Fools
Every Picture Tells A Story: Vaccine Safety
Vaccinating Essential Workers: But Who Are They?
The War on Payments to Physicians by Drug Companies and Device Manufacturers
Sisyphus, a Safer COVID-19 Vaccine, and Susceptible Populations
Thinking Aloud - Vaccination Priorities
Single-Use Plastics, Friend or Foe?
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Disease
COVID-19, Viral Load and Shedding: An Update
COVID: Asymptomatic Cancer Patient Was a One-Woman Super-Spreader
COVID: Nasty Cultural Stuff that (Hopefully) Will End Because of Coronavirus
COVID Infection Fatality Rates by Sex and Age
I'm a Pain Patient Who Woke Up With a Bowl of Blueberries in My Bed. I Swear.
Does Primary Care Save Money?
Morning Consult: 5 Policy Priorities to Ensure Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccine
Hydroxychloroquine: Does it Have Clinical Value in COVID-19? A Point, Counterpoint Discussion
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Mental Health & Society
COVID vs. Cable News: Coronavirus Misinformation Is Rampant
Concussion Prevention: Sorting Through the Science to See What's Sound
No Evidence that Blue-Light Blocking Glasses Help with Sleep
Bioethics Professor Suggests Adding 'Mind Control' Hormones to Water Supply to Fight COVID
Overpopulation Myth: New Study Predicts Population Decline This Century
Like Herpes, New Conspiracy Theories Erupt from Anti-Tech Activists
Prominent Environmentalist Censored by Forbes, Called 'White Supremacist' for Writing Sense About Climate Change
Conspiracy Theory About Bill Gates, COVID Vaccine Doesn't Make Logical Sense
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Are You a Victim of 'TL,DR'?
What I'm Reading (Nov. 26)
MLS Soccer Shows Why Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Predictions Are Worthless
Thinking Aloud: Science and Politics
What I'm Reading (Nov. 19)
Why Kelsey Grammer Should Replace Alex Trebek on 'Jeopardy!'
What I'm Reading (Nov. 12)
Every Picture Tells a Story: Our Energy Use
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Parents & Kids
How Tough Are the CDC's School Guidelines?
Every Picture Tells A Story – School Closings and Child Care
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
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