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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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CRISPR Revolution: Do We Need Tighter Gene-Editing Regulations? No
Herd Immunity Redux
Roche's COVID Pill Disappoints. Is It Doomed?
Every Picture Tells a Story: Telehealth
California Governor Mandates COVID Vaccines in Schools, Exempts...
Call Law Enforcement if You Have a Medical Problem?
What I'm Reading (Oct. 21)
Is Biden’s Mandate Necessary? Or Do We Vaccinate 'Because He...
10 Errors in Randomized Experiments
OY ... AY4.2 Delta. A New COVID Variant Shows Up. Should We Worry?
E-Cigarettes Lead to Smoking 'Relapse'? New Study Muddies...
Correlation is Not Causation
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Correlation is Not Causation
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Chemicals & Chemistry
Correlation is Not Causation
Let's Celebrate National Ether Day! Some History and (Shudder) Chemistry
Paraquat Causes Parkinson's? New Review Creates Trouble for Trial Lawyers
Phosphorous: Life and Death. A Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
The 'People's Chemist' is Anything But
Can Your Farts Smell Delicious? Theoretically, Yes.
Environmental Working Group Doesn't Want You to Rub a Peach on Your Face
Perfluorooctanaote (PFOA): The Forever Chemical? An Update
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Food & Nutrition
CRISPR Revolution: Do We Need Tighter Gene-Editing Regulations? No
Risks of Local Food: Staying Safe at Farmers’ Markets
University Pays Anti-GMO Activist Vandana Shiva To Promote 'Earth Democracy'
CRISPR Revolution: Hypertension-Fighting, Gene-edited Tomatoes Debut In Japan
Counting Calories
Kombucha: Cancer Cure or Caries Contributor?
All-Organic Agriculture? Sri Lanka Cripples Farmers and Sparks Food Shortage
Food Placement in Supermarkets
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Biomedicine & Biotech
OY ... AY4.2 Delta. A New COVID Variant Shows Up. Should We Worry?
Should Merck’s COVID Pill Be Granted Emergency Use Authorization?
Empiric Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Therapy is Here to Stay
Health Ranger Chronicles: Why Vaccination Is Better Than Catching COVID
Is The New York Times Finally ‘Learning To Love GMOS’?
COVID-19 Vaccines Prevent Delta Transmission, Yet Another Study Shows
COVID Vaccines Kill? A Second Look at Scary VAERS Reports
Don't Fear Delta: COVID-19 Vaccines Keep The Deadly Variant In Check
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Roche's COVID Pill Disappoints. Is It Doomed?
Europe, Antibacterials, Pull Incentives and Access
To Prevent a ‘Twindemic,’ Flu Vaccination Is More Important than Ever This Year
Pfizer's COVID Pill Ought to Work. Here's Why. (And Some Good News About Merck's Molnupiravir)
Poor Health Care or Politics: Which Explains America's COVID Vaccine Hesitancy?
Remdesivir: Back From the Grave
Cancer Drugs To Treat COVID? Color Me Skeptical
Don't Shoot the Messenger RNA: Blame the Virus, Not the Vaccine
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Policy & Ethics
California Governor Mandates COVID Vaccines in Schools, Exempts Political Allies
Call Law Enforcement if You Have a Medical Problem?
Is Biden’s Mandate Necessary? Or Do We Vaccinate 'Because He Said So'?
Hulu’s 'Dopesick' Revives a False Narrative; Pain Patients May Suffer
How Do You Fight COVID Vaccine Skepticism? A Former Skeptic Explains
Transparency in Regulatory Science
Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: Legal? Prudent? Necessary?
YouTube's COVID Purge Raises Troubling Censorship Questions
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Harm Reduction
E-Cigarettes Lead to Smoking 'Relapse'? New Study Muddies the Vaping Debate.
What Makes an Article or Review Persuasive?
Home is Where the Heart Is. (COVID-19 May Lurk There, Too.)
You're Only as Good as Your Last Case
Every Picture Tells a Story: Dental Care
Neither Cough or Sneeze: The Virus is in Our Breath
COVID Vaccine Roll Out: A Model for Cutting Tobacco Use and Teen Vaping
Is it Safe to Look Good in the Morning?
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Disease
Every Picture Tells a Story: Telehealth
Public Trust in Media Nears All-Time Low. Sloppy COVID Reporting Hasn't Helped.
Mixing Vaccines
But What About the T cells?
COVID-19: September’s Song
Kids In School Transmitting COVID (?)
COVID-19 Immunity Wanes Over Time
COVID’s Viral Load, By the Numbers
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Mental Health & Society
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
The Anti-Vaxx Playbook: How to Spread Anti-Vaccine Propaganda
A Solution to COVID Vaccine Refusal: Take the Jab or Lose Your Job
Anti-Tech Terrorism: Was Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Afraid of 5G?
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Other Science News
What I'm Reading (Oct. 21)
10 Errors in Randomized Experiments
What I'm Reading (Oct. 14)
What I'm Reading (Oct. 7)
What I'm Reading (Sept. 30)
Did an Asteroid Destroy the Biblical City of Sodom?
Our Hearts, Beating as One
What I'm Reading (Sept. 16)
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Parents & Kids
Heavy-Metal 'Tainted' Baby Food? Congressional Report Omits Important Science
Family Feud: Here's How I Protect My Newborn From His Anti-Vaxx Relatives
Worse Baby Advice: More Science-Free Tips I Encountered On The Way To Parenthood
Bad Baby Advice: Science-Free Suggestions I Encountered On The Way To Parenthood
Our Health Inheritance
Skin In The Game: How Having a Baby Influenced My Thinking About Pesticides and Food Safety
It's Time to Go Back to School. Do No Harm.
How Tough Are the CDC's School Guidelines?
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