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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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Governor Newsom Claims Florida Has More Per Capita Overdose Deaths Than California. He’s Right.
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State Legislators' Pestilential Pesticide Regulation
Lawmakers Seek to Overrule Cops’ Medical Decision, and Follow Addiction Doctors' Advice
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Disease

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Mental Health & Society

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Many of Our Elected Officials Are Unfit to Serve. Medical Problems Are Sometimes the Cause.
Which Came First, the Cannabis or the Schizophrenia?
Does the Moon Make Us Mad?
An Interview with Steve, My Roomba
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Baby Formula Shortage: Crisis, Or Ploy to Side-Step Liability?
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Recent SIDS Coverage Shows How Science Journalism Should Work
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