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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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Do Eyeglasses Protect You From COVID-19?
Havana Syndrome: Were Our Diplomats Attacked with Microwave Weapons?
Drs. Bloom and Seley-Radtke in the Baltimore Sun: 'Herd Immunity...
Opioid Crisis: Purdue Pharma Got What It Deserved
Happy Endings, While Dining Out & in Our Heads
How Pfizer's RNA Vaccine Works
A Coronavirus Vaccine is No Good if People Won’t Take It
Every Picture Tells a Story: Disruption, COVID Style
Oh, Canada: Justin Trudeau Keeps Border Shut, Misleads About COVID...
Can a Blood Test Be Racist?
Thinking Aloud: Herd Immunity
COVID Update: Trouble in Europe, Rare Reinfections, and Canada Is...
Chemicals & Chemistry
The Environmental Defense Fund's Silly Food Chemical Claim
When it Comes to Chemicals, Silent Spring Institute Should Stay Silent
How Do Bacteria Eat Plastic?
You Need No Longer Fear Dr. Duck's Deadly Buttons!
An Abysmal Chemistry Lesson About Bismuth
Hair Dye and Cancer, the Chemistry Behind the Scare
What Poisoned Alexei Navalny? And the WSJ Needs A Chemistry Lesson.
Beyond Science and Decisions: Results from the Recent Workshop
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Food & Nutrition
Mark Hyman, the 'Dr. Oz' of Nutrition, Says Food Is Killing People Like the Holocaust
Coffee, a Story of Two Beans
The Animal Given Antibiotic-Free Feed Probably Had Antibiotics Anyway
The Corn Oil Controversy: Are Polyunsaturated Fats Bad for Us?
Every Picture Tells a Story: On-line Groceries
Celery Juice Craziness: Folks, There’s No Rational Reason to Imbibe!
In Defense of Potatoes
Is There Bias in How We Judge GMOs?
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Biomedicine & Biotech
How Pfizer's RNA Vaccine Works
It's the Fentanyl, Stupid. But Politicians Still Target Pain Pills.
Gene Drives Could Kill Mosquitoes and Suppress Herpesvirus Infections
COVID: No, Coronavirus Wasn't Created in a Laboratory. Genetics Shows Why.
Oral vs. IV Tylenol in the Elderly: The 'Let's Kick Granny Down the Stairs' Study
FDA's Reckless Gamble: Emergency Use of COVID-19 Vaccine Prior to Phase 3 Clinical Trial Completion Is Nuts
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Pathologists, Radiologists, Microbiologists?
Vaccine Nationalism Is an Exaggerated Threat
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Opioid Crisis: Purdue Pharma Got What It Deserved
COVID: Trial Proves that Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Help Treat Coronavirus
Every Picture Tells a Story: Operation Warp Speed
Stop Calling Fentanyl a Synthetic Opioid. It's Confusing.
Can Phenylbutyric Acid (PBA) 'Unstress' Cells and Tame COVID-19?
The Trouble With a Premature Vaccine
Antimicrobial Resistance & Europe: What Happened?
A Bad COVID Vaccine Would Spawn More Conspiracy Theories
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Policy & Ethics
Drs. Bloom and Seley-Radtke in the Baltimore Sun: 'Herd Immunity' is a Bad Idea.
A Coronavirus Vaccine is No Good if People Won’t Take It
COVID: U.S. Should Follow UK's Lead on Human Challenge Trials
A Canadian Patient Advocacy Group Presses the CMA on Opioid Denial. With Help from ACSH
Scientific Journals Are Now Like Facebook
On the Proposal Not to Vaccinate the Aged for COVID-19
Rand Corporation Reports Commercial Insurers Pay More For Healthcare
Snake Oil in the Early 1900s Was Radioactive. Seriously.
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Harm Reduction
Every Picture Tells a Story: Disruption, COVID Style
Can a Blood Test Be Racist?
COVID-19, Courts, and Controversies
Can Biomarkers Determine if a Product Can 'Protect' the Brain from Sports-Related Injuries?
Is Great Barrington Declaration a Solution to Endless COVID Lockdowns?
How Safe Is Air Travel In COVID Time? A JAMA Article Says It's Safer Than You Think
Mitigation or Suppression: How Do We End the Pandemic?
KAL Flight 007, a Cold War Recollection
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Disease
Do Eyeglasses Protect You From COVID-19?
Havana Syndrome: Were Our Diplomats Attacked with Microwave Weapons?
Oh, Canada: Justin Trudeau Keeps Border Shut, Misleads About COVID Data
Thinking Aloud: Herd Immunity
COVID Update: Trouble in Europe, Rare Reinfections, and Canada Is Lying
Breast Cancer Awareness Update: Strong Present, Bright Future
Testing the Polio Vaccine
Medical Professionals Upfront and Personal with Aerosols in the time of COVID-19
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Mental Health & Society
COVID vs. Cable News: Coronavirus Misinformation Is Rampant
Concussion Prevention: Sorting Through the Science to See What's Sound
No Evidence that Blue-Light Blocking Glasses Help with Sleep
Bioethics Professor Suggests Adding 'Mind Control' Hormones to Water Supply to Fight COVID
Overpopulation Myth: New Study Predicts Population Decline This Century
Like Herpes, New Conspiracy Theories Erupt from Anti-Tech Activists
Prominent Environmentalist Censored by Forbes, Called 'White Supremacist' for Writing Sense About Climate Change
Conspiracy Theory About Bill Gates, COVID Vaccine Doesn't Make Logical Sense
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Other Science News
What I am Reading October 22nd
Happy Endings, While Dining Out & in Our Heads
What I'm Reading (Oct. 15)
ACSH in the Media: Sept. 2020
A Bluetooth 'Smart Chastity Belt' For Men is Just Nuts
What I'm Reading (Oct 8)
Out of the Mouth of Babes, Principles of Leadership
'The COVID Blues' - A Song of the Times.
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Parents & Kids
How Tough Are the CDC's School Guidelines?
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
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