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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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Thinking Out Loud: This is What Herd Immunity Looks Like
What I'm Reading (June 15)
Pandemic Planning: What’s On – and Should Be On – the Table?
5 Interesting (But Ultimately Useless), Bizarre Chemistry Factoids
FDA’s Priorities Have Literally Gone to the Dogs
Breaking Down the Sucralose Study
Every Picture Tells a Story: Fast Fashion
Ethylene Oxide: EPA is Failing Communities
First FDA-Approved RSV Vaccines Prevent Respiratory Infections That...
Climate Change: Time to Pay the Piper?
Gas Stove Ban and the Nitrogen Dioxide−Childhood Asthma Causal Claim
Copper: Colors (Plenty) and Money (Not So Much)

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Chemicals & Chemistry

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5 Interesting (But Ultimately Useless), Bizarre Chemistry Factoids
Copper: Colors (Plenty) and Money (Not So Much)
Podcast: Cannabis Causes Schizophrenia? Not So Fast; Pfizer's Weight Loss Drug v. Ozempic
Podcast: Danger of Tylenol in Opioids; J&J Drug Could Undo Liver Damage — Caused By Its Tylenol
Tetrahydrocanniboic Acid (THCA): Legal Until You Heat It, Maybe
The Corruption of Chromium
Podcast: America's Troublesome Adderall Shortage; EPA's Nonsensical PFAS Water Standards
'Adam and Heave' - Is Akee the Real Forbidden Fruit?
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Food & Nutrition

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Breaking Down the Sucralose Study
Birds and Bees Protection Act Would Bring Costly ‘Derogation Drama’ to New York
Will Apple Cider Vinegar Nuke Your Stomach?
ACSH Tries to Explain Nitrates
Are Pop-Tarts Food?
Animal and Plant Health: It's Time for USDA Leadership
Is Semaglutide Injection for You?
Farmers at War Over Dicamba
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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Pancreatic Cancer Cells Deprived of Glucose Find Another Fuel. A New Approach?
Charles III Might Be King, but He’s Still the Dunce of Wales to Me
Genetically Engineered Crops Are Key to Sustainable Farming. So Why Are Some Scientists Afraid to Discuss Them?
Celebrating Norman Borlaug: He Was Always Ahead of His Time
How Biotechnology Overregulation Harms Farmers, Boosts Food Costs and Fuels Inflation
Genetic Engineering Critic Vandana Shiva's Anti-Modernity Crusade Threatens the World's Poor
Agricultural Biotechnology Will Help the Environment with Less Regulatory Hurdles
Will the Biden Administration’s Attempt to Boost the ‘Bioeconomy’ Do the Opposite?
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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More Evidence That Opioid Policymakers Keep Aiming at the Wrong Target
Let's all Shed a Tear for the Pharmaceutical Industry
The Story You Thought You Knew About Thalidomide and Birth Defects is All Wrong
Pull Incentive for Antibiotic R&D from Europe
FDA’s ‘Accelerated Approval’ Pathway for Drugs is Important, But Imperfect
Will Pfizer's New Weight Loss Pill Silence the Ozempic Commercials?
Every Picture Tells a Story: Melatonin
Pharmacy Shelves are Bare of Many Critical Drugs, Frustrating Doctors and Endangering Patients. There's a Straightforward Policy Solution.
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Policy & Ethics

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More Evidence That Opioid Policymakers Keep Aiming at the Wrong Target
The HALT Fentanyl Act Doubles Down on Denialism
Climate Change: Time to Pay the Piper?
'Oppressive' Diagnostic Labels: An Ethical Dilemma
New Underground E-Cigarettes Market Will Soon Begin Flourishing in Australia
Zantac and Cancer, Round 2: Admissibility of Scientific Evidence Gets Bungled
The Fluoride Controversy Never Dies
Every Picture Tells a Story: Cryptocurrency Fuels Illegal Fentanyl
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Harm Reduction

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Pandemic Planning: What’s On – and Should Be On – the Table?
Every Picture Tells a Story: Fast Fashion
Ethylene Oxide: EPA is Failing Communities
Gas Stove Ban and the Nitrogen Dioxide−Childhood Asthma Causal Claim
Retrogression of Child Labor and Safety Laws
Our Human Boundaries – Part IV
Our Human Boundaries – Part III
Our Human Boundaries – Part II
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Disease

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Thinking Out Loud: This is What Herd Immunity Looks Like
First FDA-Approved RSV Vaccines Prevent Respiratory Infections That Pose Serious Hazards to Older Adults
From the Archives: Timing the Health Effects of Air Pollution
Dental Health: Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is
Long COVID: Who, Why, What to Do
Dogs to Sniff Out COVID Infections? Hey, I’ll Bite!
Do Masks Harm?
A Critical But Neglected Aspect of the Pandemic: Long COVID
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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
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
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What I'm Reading (June 15)
FDA’s Priorities Have Literally Gone to the Dogs
Smoke in the Big Apple: Be Very Afraid? No, Just Careful.
What I'm Reading (June 8)
Climate Changes as Earth Warms; The Devil is in the Details
From the Desk of Thom Golab: Science and Law - A Search for the Truth
EPA Shows Again It's the Worst Regulatory Agency in the History of the World
What I'm Reading (May 25)
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Parents & Kids

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Baby Formula Shortage: Crisis, Or Ploy to Side-Step Liability?
'Holiday Heart' Can Make a Celebration One You Don’t Want to Remember
Autism and Baby Foods
Every Picture Tells a Story: Vaccinating 'The Children'
Recent SIDS Coverage Shows How Science Journalism Should Work
The Advantages of Breast Feeding
Teen Vaping: What We Get Wrong About This 'Serious Problem'
The Smell of a Mother
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Gas Stove Ban and the Nitrogen Dioxide−Childhood Asthma Causal Claim
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First FDA-Approved RSV Vaccines Prevent Respiratory Infections That Pose Serious Hazards to Older Adults

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