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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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Jobs
Pez - The World's First Smoking Cessation Product
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Progress Toward Diagnosis and Treatment,...
This Is Not A Gambling Casino - A New Calculator Of Surgical Risk
Are Insects the New Red Meat?
Science and Health Questions for Tonight's Democratic Debate
The Cult of Keto: Should You Shun Carbs and Feast on Fat?
Pregnancy a Possible Link to Auto-Immune Diseases? A Hypothesis
Can Chemistry Explain 'Vaping Lung?'
I'm No Longer Immune to Measles
Everything Goes to Pot: Myths Are Driving FDA, CDC Vaping Policy
Guess I'll Go Eat Some Worms
What Is the Safe Dose of Perfluorooctanaote (PFOA)?
Chemicals & Chemistry
Can Chemistry Explain 'Vaping Lung?'
What Is the Safe Dose of Perfluorooctanaote (PFOA)?
App Converts a Smart Phone Into a Norovirus Detector; Very Clever Analytical Chemistry
Do Homeopathic Cows Exist?
The Atlantic Says We're Fatter Today than in the '80s Because of Chemicals, Antidepressants, Microbiome. True?
No, Fluoride Doesn't Lower IQ. It Fails to Satisfy Hill's Criteria of Causality
The EPA Grows A Pair And Takes A Stand On Glyphosate
Chipotle Probably Won't Give You Cancer. But Food Poisoning? Possibly
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Food & Nutrition
Are Insects the New Red Meat?
The Cult of Keto: Should You Shun Carbs and Feast on Fat?
Will Drinking Red Wine Give You a Healthier Microbiome?
NPR Doesn't Know Spit About Saliva, Nitrates or Deli Meat
Can We Fast Our Way To Healthy Eating?
Is Fruit Much Higher In Sugar Than It Used to Be?
Food Snobbery, Sloppy Science Journalism and the Evidence-Free Case Against Diet Soda
Hold Your Nose for the Durian Fruit
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Biomedicine & Biotech
NYT's Eric Lipton Defends Anti-Vaxxers as Measles Ravages Europe
Electrocardiograms Can Predict Our Gender And Maybe Our Age - Can It Tell Our Future?
Can We Blame Our Behavior On Our Genes? Bad Genes!
Immunotherapy for Migraines: Attack of the Antibodies
Genetically Modified People: Gene Editing Arrives in the Clinic
Top 10 Pro-GMO (Or Anti Anti-GMO) Memes on the Internet
Anti-5G Activists Are Also Real-Life Ghostbusters
How Expert Societies Could Help the Economics of Antibiotics
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Why Americans Hate Big Pharma More Than Ever
Incentives from Medicare?
Bizarro World: Parents Terrified Of Chemicals Feed Toxic Supplements To Their Kids
Data Manipulation Scandal Rocks the World’s Most Expensive Drug
No, You Don't Break Gilead's Patent for HIV Drugs
The Lunacy Continues - Now It's Music Instead Of Sedatives Before Surgery
Bernie Sanders, Don't Call Scientists in Pharmaceutical Industry 'Crooks'
Need General Surgery? Ignore The Surgeon General
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Policy & Ethics
Science and Health Questions for Tonight's Democratic Debate
Everything Goes to Pot: Myths Are Driving FDA, CDC Vaping Policy
The Hypocrisy of CVS
If RFK, Jr. Likes Your Article, It Might Get Retracted
Rand Report on Fentanyl: Mostly Correct (but ACSH Got There Long Ago)
The Great Opioid Shakedown of 2019 Will Be a Pyrrhic 'Victory'
Time & Memory: Forgetting Our Past Mistakes
Monsanto and Mallinckrodt – Corporate America’s answer to liability
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Harm Reduction
Pez - The World's First Smoking Cessation Product
This Is Not A Gambling Casino - A New Calculator Of Surgical Risk
How Physicians Learn
Cooking in India: Self-Inflicted Indoor Air Pollution
Prescribers and Policymakers Must Both Get Better at Harm Reduction
For Hospitalized Patients, It's Location, Location, Location
JUUL Blamed for Collapsed Lung
Cleaner Air: 60 Years of Progress
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Disease
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Progress Toward Diagnosis and Treatment, Finally?
Pregnancy a Possible Link to Auto-Immune Diseases? A Hypothesis
I'm No Longer Immune to Measles
Guess I'll Go Eat Some Worms
Infectious Disease: Things Have Not Gotten as Stupid as They Are Going to Get
What Children Need From Hospitals
From China White to Breaking Bad: The Rand Report on Fentanyl In America
Vaccine Could Prevent Nearly 75% of HPV-Associated Cancers
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Mental Health & Society
Suicides Surge by 12% in UK, But They Can Be Prevented
4 Myths About Mass Shootings
Guns, Vaccines, and Rekindling Our American Sense of Duty
Nothing Grimes Said About Eyeballs or Depression Makes Any Sense
Modern Parenting: Is 'Bringing Up Bébé' Still Relevant?
Earth to Paul Ehrlich: UN Revises Population Projection Downward
Supplements for Brain Health Show No Benefit
Om, E-meditation for fhe Multitasking Generation
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Other Science News
ACSH in the Media: September Special
What I'm Reading (Aug. 30)
No, Steve Jobs Isn't Alive in Egypt; Stop the Conspiracy Before It Spreads
ACSH in the Media: Oh, the Places We Go!
What I Am Reading August 23rd
The Not-So-Charmed Life of a Junk Science Debunker
What I'm Reading (Aug. 16)
What I'm Reading (Aug. 9)
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Parents & Kids
Are Home Births Safe? Canadian Midwives Say Yes
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Language is an Evolutionary Force
Do 3D Scans Show More Trauma To Baby's Head At Birth Than We Knew?
U.S. Births Hit Lowest Number in 32 Years
OshKosh B’gosh! 'Green America' Wants Your Kids To Go Naked
Debunking Due Date Myths: Harry Says Royal Baby 'A Little Bit Overdue'
Healthcare Burden High For Foreign-Body Ingestion By Young Children
Woman Delivers Twins from 2nd Uterus, Month after 1st Baby
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