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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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Why Andy Warhol Peed On His Paintings (And Worse) - A Perverted...
Eating Our Children - Why Continue To Attack Memorial Sloan Kettering?
Golf Game Tips Come with Anti-Vaccine, Anti-GMO Propaganda
Winter Is Coming: The 1st Scientific Study of 'Game of Thrones...
Non-Profit Health Systems Pay No Taxes But 'Give Back'...
Secondhand Smoke Exposure Is Down, So Now We Fear Thirdhand Smoke
Copperpenis Owls and Other Boogeymen - The Cause Of All Diseases
Do Opioid Scripts for Tooth Extraction Really Cause Abuse, or Just...
Sleep Finds Its Goldilocks Range
No Benefit Found for Chiropractic 'Preventive Maintenance'
PETA's Tactics Hurt Animal Rights ... and People, Too
Organic Chemistry Can Defeat Any Fentanyl Agreement
Chemicals & Chemistry
Why Andy Warhol Peed On His Paintings (And Worse) - A Perverted Chemistry Lesson
No Sympathy for the 'Powder of Sympathy'
Secondhand Smoke Exposure Is Down, So Now We Fear Thirdhand Smoke
Ocean Spray Lawsuit: Another Insane Debate over 'Artificial' Flavors
Lead Poisoning: Another Reason to Avoid Alternative Medicine
TATP: The Chemistry of 'Mother of Satan' Explosive
Nickel: Lab Fires, Scary Toxicity, Eczema, And Cancer. But Not Really A Coin.
If You Buy Organic Wine, You May Be Funding Far More Soil Damage
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Food & Nutrition
Cranberries, the Microbiome, and Conflicts of Interest
Is Nutrition Science Mostly Junk?
Should You Take Probiotics When You're on Antibiotics?
I Sing The Body's Microbiome
National Survey Finds 40% Believe Cancer Can Be Cured Without Medicine
No, Organic Food Doesn't Reduce Cancer Risk. That's Biologically Impossible
The French Chime in on Organic Food and Health
Sea Salt: Possibly The World's Dumbest Product
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Biomedicine & Biotech
Golf Game Tips Come with Anti-Vaccine, Anti-GMO Propaganda
No Benefit Found for Chiropractic 'Preventive Maintenance'
The Talented Gribble
What's the Blood-Brain Barrier & How Do You Cross It?
Not All Pain Is Bad
Could We Turn Insects into Biological Weapons?
Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test Tells Us Nothing
Conventional Farms Are Better for Environment than Organic Farms
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Why Is Access To New Medications So Complicated?
Melinta, Are We Getting the Message?
Placebos Are About Faith, Not Neurobiology
R&D Costs: Not a Simple Calculation
A New Way To 'Crowd-Fund' Pharmaceuticals
Oft-Maligned Triclosan's Good Side: Treating Cystic Fibrosis Infections
Lowering Drug Prices in 3 Easy Pieces
Do Costs of Hospital Accreditation Actually Benefit Patient Outcomes?
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Policy & Ethics
Eating Our Children - Why Continue To Attack Memorial Sloan Kettering?
Non-Profit Health Systems Pay No Taxes But 'Give Back' Community Benefits. But to Whom? And Who Really Benefits?
Do Opioid Scripts for Tooth Extraction Really Cause Abuse, or Just Useless Numbers?
PETA's Tactics Hurt Animal Rights ... and People, Too
Organic Chemistry Can Defeat Any Fentanyl Agreement
Missing: Scientist Who Gene Edited Baby Is Being 'Re-Educated'
When Does No Mean Know(ing)? - The Intersection Of Facts And Beliefs
Why Isn’t Evidence Based Policy More Common?
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Harm Reduction
Winter Is Coming: The 1st Scientific Study of 'Game of Thrones'
The Most Insidious Feature Of The Electronic Medical Record
Cigarette Use Has Collapsed, So Media Scares People About Vaping Instead
Is The Fragility Index A Clinical Guide In Our Use of Guidelines?
Halloween Means More Pedestrian Deaths - But Don't Freak Out About Absolute Risk
The UK Government Says E-Cigarettes Are Good, the US Says They're Bad: What's The Truth?
False Hope From Lotto Safer Bet Than Some Medical Crowdfunding
‘If It Bleeds, It Leads’ News Media Is Terrible For Vaccine Compliance
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Disease
Sleep Finds Its Goldilocks Range
No Smell Like An Old Smell
Winter Is Coming. So Is Norovirus. Any Hope Out There?
What Is African Swine Fever? A Fatal Hemorrhagic Fever of Pigs
Simian Herpes Is Nothing To Monkey Around With
'Tis the Season for Infectious Disease
3 Patterns of Knee Pain May Help Identify the Cause
It's Not Just the Flu: Many Infectious Diseases Are Seasonal
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Mental Health & Society
Copperpenis Owls and Other Boogeymen - The Cause Of All Diseases
The PTSD of A Breast Cancer Diagnosis: You and Your Family
Urine Test Could Diagnose Depression, Anxiety
Work Continues on a Pill to Treat Concussions
Making Bad Behavior Rational: Criminals Regard Risk Differently Than Everyone Else
Man's Bipolar Mood Cycles Linked to the Moon
Testosterone May Make Men More Honest
No, CTE Didn't Make a Man Steal an Airplane from Seattle's Airport
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Other Science News
Mutant Time Bomb Or Weasel Words, Junk Science and Scare Mongering?
ACSH in the Media: NBC, Fox News, and More!
10,000 Steps: Myth or Fact?
Why Aren't There Electric Airplanes?
A Picture Is Worth More Than A Thousand Words To The Trained Eye
The Polarization of Society: Even Scientists Become Tribal
Junk or Joke Science? Too Hard To Tell With This Study
The Scientifically Ignorant Drive GMO Debate
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Parents & Kids
How To Talk To Your Kids About Your Breast Cancer
Parents, Get Messy! Your Kids Will Thank You Later
What Should We Really Worry About For Halloween?
Sanitizing Childhood of Adversity Chips Away At Resilience
How Should A Baby Be Born?
Don’t Wish Away The Good Stuff In Parenting
Is Removing Sesame Street From Diapers A Bridge Too Far?
Nexus Of Hype: Household Chemicals Cause Obesity, And the Undefined Gut Microbiota Is Invoked Too
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