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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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Pain Patient’s Death Was State-Sanctioned Torture
Aspirin's Benefit In Heart Disease Is Limited
Second-Hand Alcohol Abuse - A Public Health View Of A Personal Choice
Precautionary Principle: We Must Ban Driving to Whole Foods
Cord Blood Banking: Legit Or A Scam?
What's the Value of 23andMe's Genetic Risk Calculation for...
Hitting Moose with Your Car Is 13 Times Deadlier than Hitting Deer
Homeopathy Supplement Peddler's Despicable Anti-Vaccine Goldmine
Hospital Recovery Myths: Whoopi Goldberg's Near-Death Battle...
The Best Means of Treating High Blood Pressure Remains Elusive
Oral And IV Tylenol Work *Equally* Well For Hip Replacement Pain -...
ACSH in the Media: We Filled TV and Radio Airwaves
Chemicals & Chemistry
BioSil: Can it Really Help Thicken Your Hair and Nails?
How Louis Pasteur Beat a Beet Problem and Changed Medicine Forever
Cholesterol in Cosmetics
Brazil Health Agency Says Glyphosate Doesn't Cause Cancer; Activists Go Berserk
The Science Behind PFOA Safe Concentrations
Some Bacteria Can Eat Cleaning Products
AAAS Runs Dishonest Glyphosate Story, Then Deletes It. Is Politics to Blame?
What Is a Safe Level of PFOA?
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Food & Nutrition
Using Gold Nanoparticles to Keep Frozen Food Safe: A Simple Color Test
Algorithms to Personalize the 'Best Diet' Are Not Yet Ready for Prime Time
How Did Salmonella Bacteria Get Their Name? (The Name Has Nothing To Do With Fish)
Saturated Fats In Dairy Products May Be Good For Your Heart Health
Ridiculous Study Claims Brexit Will Kill 12,000 Brits
The New Science of Winemaking
The Lancet Proposes To Ban Food Experts from Food Discussions
Fiber Provides Carbohydrate's 'Slow and Low'
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Biomedicine & Biotech
Medical Innovation Begins At The Bedside, Not With Moonshots
Searching for Passion
Mice Deprived of 'Love Hormone' Sit Alone in the Cold
Platelet-Rich Plasma is Profitable, But How Well Does It Work?
GMO Cassava Can Provide Iron, Zinc to Malnourished African Children
Phage Therapy: Killing Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria with Viruses
Stem Cell Treatments for Arthritic Knees Are Unproven, Expensive, and Potentially Dangerous
Will Jeff Bezos Force Whole Foods to Stop Lying? Apparently Not
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Homeopathy Supplement Peddler's Despicable Anti-Vaccine Goldmine
Oral And IV Tylenol Work *Equally* Well For Hip Replacement Pain - But Do They Work At All?
Economic Analysis Falls Short When it Comes to Medicines’ Value
Johnson & Johnson's Shameless Exploitation of the Opioid Crisis
A Special Place in Hell: Hucksters Peddle Useless Alzheimer's Supplements
With Legalization Come Marketing, Marijuana's New 'Terroir'
Heroin Pills Are Now A Reality - Is Andrew Kolodny Finally Happy?
Acquiring Keytruda, Another Source of Expensive Pharmaceuticals
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Policy & Ethics
Pain Patient’s Death Was State-Sanctioned Torture
The Lancet Has Gotten Really Weird
Anti-Science, Anti-Semitic Website 'CounterPunch' Attacks ACSH
Hospitalized Patient Told Death Imminent Via Video-Link
My Response To The Times Article About Opioid 'Good News Bad News'
In HHS Task Force Pain Recommendations, a Missing Dimension
Paying Patients To Choose Less Expensive Care Has Little Impact - So Much For The Carrot
Top 10 Pro-Vaccine (or Anti Anti-Vaxxer) Memes on the Internet
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Harm Reduction
Second-Hand Alcohol Abuse - A Public Health View Of A Personal Choice
Hitting Moose with Your Car Is 13 Times Deadlier than Hitting Deer
Do Hospital Networks Improve Outcomes, or Just Provide a Halo?
The Real Deal With Elective IV 'Therapy'
If You're an Older Person, Be Careful Walking Your Dog
How to Spot a Fake Doctor
CDC Misleads by Calling E-Cigarettes a 'Tobacco Product'
When it Comes to Our Odds of Dying, Are We Our Worst Enemy?
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Disease
Aspirin's Benefit In Heart Disease Is Limited
Cord Blood Banking: Legit Or A Scam?
What's the Value of 23andMe's Genetic Risk Calculation for Diabetes?
Hospital Recovery Myths: Whoopi Goldberg's Near-Death Battle With Sepsis
The Best Means of Treating High Blood Pressure Remains Elusive
The Societal Toll of Nocturia
No, Dog Saliva Isn't All That Clean
Pre-Diabetes: Medical Risk or Market Segmentation?
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Mental Health & Society
Brain Wars: Return of the Sex Deniers
Is Pinterest A Doctor's Best Friend?
Japanese Official Apologizes for Telling Truth About Shrinking Population
What Is Addiction? And What Are Its True Causes?
Mental Health: The Dangers of the Social Media Diagnosis
Squeezing Science out of Squishies
Study Reveals 5 Insomnia Subtypes
Dr. Oz Preys on Gullible Americans in His Modern-Day Medicine Show
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Other Science News
Can Sitting Less Decrease Your Risk of Heart Disease?
ACSH in the Media: We Filled TV and Radio Airwaves
U.S. Medical School Students to Soon Learn Their Fate
Overpopulation Myth: Humanity Will Begin Shrinking This Century
ACSH in the Media: Across America and Around the World!
Blame Academia for Junk Science and Media Hype?
How Lincoln's Embrace of Embalming Birthed the American Funeral Industry
Save The Planet *And* Your Anus Too! Bamboo Toilet Paper And Other Atrocities
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Parents & Kids
Childbirth Complications Higher on Nights, Holidays, Study Finds
Consent at Core of How Teen Defied Parents, Got Vaccinated
Want People to Get Vaccinated? Stop Shaming Them
Birth Is Not Like What We See In The Movies
Baby Dies After Group Pushes Overdue Birth - True Story Or Urban Legend?
Are 'Free Birth' And 'Unhindered Birth' A Thing?
Dad Takes Away Teen's Cell Phone. She Calls 911 For Theft - Police Video Goes Viral.
After Swallowing Magnets, Boy Loses Parts Of Colon, Intestines
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