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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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Pull Incentive for Antibiotic R&D from Europe
The Globe Continues To Warm: What Next?
What I Am Reading May 25th
The Dangers of Poor Peer-review: They Aren’t Just Medical
FDA’s ‘Accelerated Approval’ Pathway for Drugs Is Important but...
Will That Be Cash or Credit?
Will Pfizer's New Weight Loss Pill Silence the Ozempic...
Protecting Our Water Systems in the Age of Cyber Threats
Every Picture Tells a Story: Melatonin
Pharmacy Shelves are Bare of Many Critical Drugs, Frustrating Doctors...
Which Came First, the Cannabis or the Schizophrenia?
Pancreatic Cancer Cells Deprived of Glucose Find Another Fuel. A New...

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Chemicals & Chemistry

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Podcast: Danger of Tylenol in Opioids; J&J Drug Could Undo Liver Damage — Caused By Its Tylenol
Tetrahydrocanniboic Acid (THCA): Legal Until You Heat It, Maybe
The Corruption of Chromium
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'Adam and Heave' - Is Akee the Real Forbidden Fruit?
Podcast: Tylenol After Surgery is Useless; CVS Sued for Selling Homeopathic 'Remedies'
How the Media Got the Vinyl Chloride Risk All Wrong (Reason Magazine)
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Food & Nutrition

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Animal and Plant Health: It's Time for USDA Leadership
Is Semaglutide Injection for You?
Farmers at War Over Dicamba
Is a Vegan Diet the Answer?
It’s a Pretzel Party
Secrets of the Kimchi Masters
Norman Borlaug, 'Father of the Green Revolution,' Was Remarkable in Many Ways
Podcast: Could 'Woke' Policies Harm Public Health? FDA's Silly 'Healthy' Food Labels
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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Pancreatic Cancer Cells Deprived of Glucose Find Another Fuel. A New Approach?
Charles III Might Be King, but He’s Still the Dunce of Wales to Me
Genetically Engineered Crops Are Key to Sustainable Farming. So Why Are Some Scientists Afraid to Discuss Them?
Celebrating Norman Borlaug: He Was Always Ahead of His Time
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?
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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Pull Incentive for Antibiotic R&D from Europe
FDA’s ‘Accelerated Approval’ Pathway for Drugs Is Important but Imperfect
Will Pfizer's New Weight Loss Pill Silence the Ozempic Commercials?
Every Picture Tells a Story: Melatonin
Pharmacy Shelves are Bare of Many Critical Drugs, Frustrating Doctors and Endangering Patients. There's a Straightforward Policy Solution.
FDA Panel Recommends OTC Sale of One Birth Control Pill. Time to Approve All the Rest.
Promising Pain Meds in Development: Vertex’s VX-548
FDA Needs Bold Reforms Instead of Kicking the Can Down the Road
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Policy & Ethics

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The Globe Continues To Warm: What Next?
The Dangers of Poor Peer-review: They Aren’t Just Medical
DEA's Abuse, Prevention & Control Laws: Lacking Science, Common Sense
Why the Male Chickens Don’t Get to Cross the Road
The Mask Mandate Goes to Court
Cybersecurity in Health Care: Critical to Patients, Medical Providers
It is Time for CDC to "Get Out Of Dodge" Concerning Public Policy for Pain Care
ACSH Tries to Explain QALY
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Harm Reduction

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Protecting Our Water Systems in the Age of Cyber Threats
The 'Science' of Bail Reform
EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System: A Good Idea Gone Bad
Talking Out Loud: Alarm Fatigue
Disparities in Care
Recalling Medical Devices
How Road Rage Affects Your Driving ... and Self-Driving Cars of the Future
A Misguided Golden State Bill
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Disease

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Dogs to Sniff Out COVID Infections? Hey, I’ll Bite!
Do Masks Harm?
A Critical But Neglected Aspect of the Pandemic: Long COVID
How Addictive is Marijuana?
PM2.5 & Lung Cancer: Promotion or Predilection?
COVID-19: The 3rd Anniversary. What’s Next?
Every Picture Tells a Story: An Algorithm Searches to Be Clinically Useful
Is Poverty a Risk Factor for Dying?
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Mental Health & Society

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Which Came First, the Cannabis or the Schizophrenia?
Does the Moon Make Us Mad?
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
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What I Am Reading May 25th
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What I'm Reading (May 11)
The J-Man Chronicles: Roach-Spewing Hand Dryers and Other Atrocities
What I'm Reading (May 4)​​​​​​
A Bee’s Tale
What I'm Reading (Apr. 27)
Earth Day Has Become Polluted by Ignorance and Political Correctness
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Parents & Kids

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Baby Formula Shortage: Crisis, Or Ploy to Side-Step Liability?
'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
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