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    • Priorities Magazine Spring 2018
    • The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It
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    • 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 Cost of GMO Bans: Higher Food Prices and Unnecessary Suffering
Pfizer's COVID Drug Works Wonders. Here's How it Works.
Every Picture Tells a Story: It Takes a Lot of CO2 to Run a Climate...
How Do Statins Protect Us?
COVID Misinformation Blunder: Instagram Censors Widely Respected...
Vaping and Stroke Risk: New Study Hypes the Wrong Conclusion
The Great (Climate) Migration
What I'm Reading (Nov. 11)
Ups and Downs of COVID-19
What COVID-19 Should Teach Us About Future Pandemics
How’s the Menthol Ban Working Out?
H2O: What You Need to Know

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Chemicals & Chemistry

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Pfizer's COVID Drug Works Wonders. Here's How it Works.
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
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Food & Nutrition

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The Cost of GMO Bans: Higher Food Prices and Unnecessary Suffering
Don’t Let Gluten-Free Mean Nutrient Deficient
Fighting Climate Change is No Excuse to Expand Organic Farming
Is a Raw Diet Too Ruff for Rover?
Can DNA Testing Offer Personalized Diet Advice? Nope, Not Yet.
Toxic Pesticides in Food? New FDA Safety Data Should Calm Your Fears.
CRISPR Revolution: Do We Need Tighter Gene-Editing Regulations? No
Risks of Local Food: Staying Safe at Farmers’ Markets
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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COVID Vaccine Safety and VAERS: 4 Common Questions Answered
Killer COVID Vaccines? Yet Another Study Shows the Shots Are Safe
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
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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Remdesivir, Get Out of the Way: Pfizer's Antiviral Shines
'Evil' Merck Gives Up Molupiravir Patent for Poor Countries
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
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Policy & Ethics

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Every Picture Tells a Story: It Takes a Lot of CO2 to Run a Climate Summit
COVID Misinformation Blunder: Instagram Censors Widely Respected Cochrane Collaboration
The Great (Climate) Migration
What COVID-19 Should Teach Us About Future Pandemics
How’s the Menthol Ban Working Out?
Medicare Advantage? To Whom?
New Research Fails to Show Link Between Marijuana, Suicide, and Mental Illness
'Racial Segregation is Common in Urban Hospital Markets.' Can That Be True?
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Harm Reduction

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Vaping and Stroke Risk: New Study Hypes the Wrong Conclusion
H2O: What You Need to Know
Herd Immunity and Disgust
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
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Disease

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How Do Statins Protect Us?
Ups and Downs of COVID-19
What Can Be Learned from COVID, Non-COVID, and Influenza Mortalities and Vaccinations?
Colonoscopy Time? It's Not *That* Bad. Seriously.
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?
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Mental Health & Society

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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

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What I'm Reading (Nov. 11)
Every Picture Tells a Story: CO2 is Rising
What I'm Reading (Nov. 4)
Amazon Comes to Health Care
What I'm Reading (Oct. 28)
What I'm Reading (Oct. 21)
10 Errors in Randomized Experiments
What I'm Reading (Oct. 14)
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Parents & Kids

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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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Popular Articles

Pfizer's COVID Drug Works Wonders. Here's How it Works.
COVID Misinformation Blunder: Instagram Censors Widely Respected Cochrane Collaboration
The Cost of GMO Bans: Higher Food Prices and Unnecessary Suffering
How Do Statins Protect Us?
Vaping and Stroke Risk: New Study Hypes the Wrong Conclusion

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Health Scares vs. Health Threats

Thank You, Trial Lawyers, For Protecting Us from the Scourge of Baby Powder
Coronavirus: Fear of a Pandemic, or a Pandemic of Fear?
95% of Baby Food Tainted with Toxic Metals? Don't Panic
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Celebrities vs. Science

What the Hulk? 9/11 Truther Mark Ruffalo Testifies to Congress on Science
Nothing Grimes Said About Eyeballs or Depression Makes Any Sense
Jeff Bezos' Plan to Colonize Space is Based on Sheer Nonsense
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is Helping Spread Flu and Cervical Cancer
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Groups Who Hate Us

Journalists Regurgitate 'The Monsanto Papers'
Anti-Monsanto Lawyer and USRTK, Carey Gillam Collaborator Possibly Headed to Prison for Extortion
Journalist Peter Fairley Cites Anti-Vaxx Website, Spreads Misinformation on Flu, COVID-19
DeSmogBlog: Climate Website Is Headed by Anti-Vaxxer Brendan DeMelle
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My Definition of a Scientist
RIP Jane Newton
If Our Science Tribe Was a D&D Game
Why Ice Makes This Odd Sound
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