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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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What I am reading May 28th
Put Your Money on A COVID Drug Before a Vaccine
Is the Coronavirus Lockdown Costing More Lives than It's Saving?
Rethinking COVID-19 Mortality Statistics
COVID-19 in Space and Time
What Is a Coronavirus Super-Spreader?
Steven Pinker Calls Belief in Afterlife a 'Malignant Delusion...
A Look at COVID-19 in NYC Through the Eyes of an Ophthalmologic...
A Timely, Simple Primer on Clinical Trials. What Do the Numbers Mean?
What I'm Reading (May 21)
The Real Problem With Hydroxychloroquine Is Nothing New. It's...
Thank You, Trial Lawyers, For Protecting Us from the Scourge of Baby...
Chemicals & Chemistry
MIT Screwball Blames Glyphosate for COVID, and Everything Else
OMG! We Made One Gram of Remdesivir!
Chlorpyrifos: A Hostage of the Secret Science Rule?
What Is the Safe Dose of Any Chemical?
EPA Refutes Study Claiming Glyphosate Boosts Cancer Risk
What is Toxicology? And Who is a Toxicologist?
Introducing Dr. Michael Dourson, America's Toxicologist
How the 'World's Smelliest Substance' Saves Lives
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Food & Nutrition
Eat Like a Bird and Weight Loss Will Be a Dead Sirt
Dr. Norman Borlaug, Remembered
Dr. Norman Borlaug: He Saved A Billion Lives
At 90, Dr. Norman Borlaug: A Giant of Our Time
Vitamin D & COVID-19: The Evidence So Far
Covid-19 and Intravenous Nutrition - a Life-Saving Choice!
Toxicology: Is Organic Food Safer to Eat?
AARP Scares Old People into Eating Organic Food
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Biomedicine & Biotech
The Keystone Cops vs. Coronavirus
Year-Long Investigation Refutes Myth of 'Grassroots' Anti-GMO Activism
Coronavirus: Anti-Science Activism is a Luxury for the Privileged
COVID-19: UV LED Can Kill 99.9% of Coronavirus in 30 Seconds
How to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine
From Math To Politics, Some Problems Don’t Have Solutions (Part II)
High-Tech Gets The Headlines But Low-Tech Can Cut Health Care Costs And Save Lives
How to Make Money by Spreading Anti-GMO Propaganda
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
A Timely, Simple Primer on Clinical Trials. What Do the Numbers Mean?
The Real Problem With Hydroxychloroquine Is Nothing New. It's Chemistry.
Awake in the ICU with a Ventilator Tube Shoved Down Your Throat? Thank the DEA.
Remdesivir is IV-Only. Here Are Some Ways to Fix That.
We Need a Remdesivir Pill. Badly.
What’s It Worth? Pricing Remdesivir
COVID-19: What Have We Learned?
Remdesivir 1st Controlled Trial Is No Cause For Celebration
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Policy & Ethics
Ethicists: We Need More Flexible Tools for Evaluating Gene-Edited Food
Thank You, Trial Lawyers, For Protecting Us from the Scourge of Baby Powder
Don't Expect Public Health Policy to Change After Coronavirus
Coronavirus: 'Flatten the Curve' Has Mutated into 'Find a Cure'
Transparent Decision, Regret, and COVID-19
Irish Potato Famine: How Belief in Overpopulation Leads to Human Evil
The 'Guardian' of Honest Journalism? Hardly.
Coronavirus: Restaurant Customer Logs for Contact Tracing Are a Good Idea
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Harm Reduction
Air Pollution and COVID-19: Stay In or Get Out?
Climate and Niche: Is Our Home About to Change?
Every Picture tells a Story - The Bully Pulpit
When Do We Mingle? The Tyranny of an 'Abundance of Caution'
Every Picture tells a Story - Racism
ACSH in the Media: Stay-at-Home Edition
Every Picture tells a Story - Twitter Measures Social Mobility
Testing for COVID-19, False Positives & Negatives
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Disease
Put Your Money on A COVID Drug Before a Vaccine
Is the Coronavirus Lockdown Costing More Lives than It's Saving?
Rethinking COVID-19 Mortality Statistics
COVID-19 in Space and Time
What Is a Coronavirus Super-Spreader?
A Look at COVID-19 in NYC Through the Eyes of an Ophthalmologic Surgeon
The Valuation of Physician Advice
How Many Dermatologists Does It Take To Start A Global Pandemic?
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Mental Health & Society
Steven Pinker Calls Belief in Afterlife a 'Malignant Delusion'. He Is Wrong
Cult of the Presidency: Coronavirus, Trump, and Our Social Pathology
How I Became Open-Minded
From Math To Politics, Some Problems Don’t Have Solutions (Part III)
Social Media Makes YOU Part of the Fake News Problem
Fertility Rate Hits All-Time Low, But U.S. on Track for 400 Million in 2050s
Don't Abolish Billionaires. The World Is a Better Place Because of Them
Traffic Violence: Elizabeth Warren Redefines 'Car Accident'
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Other Science News
What I am reading May 28th
What I'm Reading (May 21)
Every Picture Tells a Story – Death Certificates in the Time of COVID-19
What I'm Reading (May 14)
Every Picture Tells a Story – Global Infectious Disease
Every Picture Tells a Story. How Much Water Do You Consume?
What I'm Reading (May 7)
What I'm Reading (Apr. 30)
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Parents & Kids
Every Picture Tells A Story – School Closings and Child Care
Household Cleaners & Indoor Air Pollution: Are We Cleaning Ourselves to Death?
95% of Baby Food Tainted with Toxic Metals? Don't Panic
Are Immunization Schedules Evidence-Based?
Bedtime Stories in the Digital Age
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?
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