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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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The Rampant Deluge of Worry That Is Now A Societal Norm
Johnny Appleseed, Bees and the Changing Landscape
Will Coffee Help With Your Asthma?
Op-Ed: Private-Sector Solution to Address Drug Spending that Everyone...
Dad Takes Away Teen's Cell Phone. She Calls 911 For Theft -...
The Hidden Harms of Crying Wolf
How Rainy Is Seattle? It's Not Even in the Top 30 of Major U.S....
New Congress Attacks Big Pharma, America's Favorite Whipping Boy
Why Are We ‘Bad’ Patients?
Bluetoothing the Doctor's Office
Resilience and The Notorious RBG
ACSH in the Media: Wherever You Go, There We Are
Chemicals & Chemistry
Did You Know There is Ink in Your Tea?
Is Dental Floss Toxic?
Is Hard Water Dangerous to Drink?
Super-Homeopathy Will End The Opioid Crisis. But Beware.
Chemists Can Determine if Organic Milk Is Fraudulent
The Colour of Meat
What Happens When Water Breaks Down into Oxygen and Hydrogen?
Why Andy Warhol Peed on His Paintings (and Worse) - A Perverted Chemistry Lesson
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Food & Nutrition
Fiber Provides Carbohydrate's 'Slow and Low'
Bloomberg Scares Parents with 'Big Dairy' Conspiracy
Superfoods Aren't Real. So Why Do Americans Believe in Them?
10 Worst Bogus Health Stories of 2018
There's Nothing Wrong with Dairy Milk
Reading Chicken Bones: How Sapiens Changed the Planet
USDA's Report on Pesticides & Antibiotics
Cranberries, the Microbiome, and Conflicts of Interest
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Biomedicine & Biotech
Bluetoothing the Doctor's Office
Complexity Drives the Rate of Innovation
Bugs in our Guts
FDA Warning Not Enough To Protect Patients From Dangerous Unproven ‘Stem Cell’ Products
How Synthetic Biology Could Treat Celiac Disease
Anti-Vaxxers Like Congressman-Elect Mark Green Shouldn’t Be in Government
Countering Misinformation About Flu Vaccine Is Harder than It Seems
Golf Game Tips Come with Anti-Vaccine, Anti-GMO Propaganda
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Will Coffee Help With Your Asthma?
Op-Ed: Private-Sector Solution to Address Drug Spending that Everyone is Ignoring
New Congress Attacks Big Pharma, America's Favorite Whipping Boy
CNN: Opioid Overdoses Kill More People Than... Food?
On the Prescription Drug Battlefield, Hospitals Put Generics in Play
Our Culture Is Blasé About Prescription Sharing, and That's a Problem
A Drug Recall, Contaminants, and How Things Are Made - A Parable of Means and Ends
What's Ahead for Antibiotics in 2019?
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Policy & Ethics
New York City Jumps on Healthcare-for-All Train
As President Trump Calls For Low Drug Prices, Media Hypes Pharma’s Recent Increases
Bundled Surgical Care (Sorta) Shows Small Savings, Without Poorer Outcomes
How Do We Redirect Scientific Investigation?
Sen. Ron Wyden Smears Opioid Task Force. Why?
The 2018 Bad Boys of Healthcare
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt - Six Ways Assumptions Mislead Us
Gifts Reconsidered; A Tale of the Season
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Harm Reduction
The Hidden Harms of Crying Wolf
Why Are We ‘Bad’ Patients?
Stanton Glantz Says Vapers Should Smoke Cigarettes, Instead
Words Over Deeds - Lowering Legal Blood Alcohol Levels Alone Does Not Reduce Accidents
The Most Insidious Feature Of The Electronic Medical Record
Cigarette Use Has Collapsed, So Media Scares People About Vaping Instead
Is The Fragility Index A Clinical Guide In Our Use of Guidelines?
Halloween Means More Pedestrian Deaths - But Don't Freak Out About Absolute Risk
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Disease
The Rampant Deluge of Worry That Is Now A Societal Norm
Resilience and The Notorious RBG
Cancer’s Shifting Paradigm
Gestational Diabetes Is Not Prevented By Exercise and Diet
What Does it Cost to Have a Non-Communicable Disease?
Woman Suffers Terrifying Death from Rabies After Puppy Bite
New York Times Reports on 'Slandering the Newborn,' But Takes No Responsibility
Is 'Dip & Flip' Cleaner Better than a 'Double Dip'?
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Mental Health & Society
Study Reveals 5 Insomnia Subtypes
Dr. Oz Preys on Gullible Americans in His Modern-Day Medicine Show
The Funny Thing About Memory Is The Gift Of Forgetting
Penny Marshall And The Suspension of Disbelief
Copperpenis Owls and Other Boogeymen - The Cause Of All Diseases
The PTSD of A Breast Cancer Diagnosis: You and Your Family
Urine Test Could Diagnose Depression, Anxiety
Work Continues on a Pill to Treat Concussions
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Other Science News
Johnny Appleseed, Bees and the Changing Landscape
How Rainy Is Seattle? It's Not Even in the Top 30 of Major U.S. Cities
ACSH in the Media: Wherever You Go, There We Are
Doctors and Seductive Videos
ACSH in the Media: Science Like a Boss!
Parties Provide Pleasure and Can Be the Serendipitous Source of Changes in Your Life
Top 10 Most Read Medical Stories of 2018
Ideas Spread Faster Due to the Source more than their Quality - So Much for Science's Meritocracy
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Parents & Kids
Dad Takes Away Teen's Cell Phone. She Calls 911 For Theft - Police Video Goes Viral.
After Swallowing Magnets, Boy Loses Parts Of Colon, Intestines
What Is The Real Deal With The Size Of Babies - Is Bigger Better?
ACSH’s Dr. Jamie Wells Debunks Myths About The ‘Fourth Trimester’ On Fox TV
Pathologizing Childhood, Cultural Ails And Shaming Top Year's Most Popular Pediatric Stories
Victimhood Is a Disease: Why Labels and Bans Harm Children
While Branding Infant Stages Sells Books, It Pathologizes Childhood
How To Talk To Your Kids About Your Breast Cancer
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