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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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American Air Is Clean and Getting Cleaner
College Students' Sleep Article Proves Much More Popular Online
ACSH Is Fake News! So Says An Anti-Vax, Conspiracy Loving Screwball
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Cyclic Aliphatic Bromides...
The Toll of Diabetes
Woman Donates Her Heart And Lives To Tell About It! Now, THAT Is...
No, CTE Didn't Make a Man Steal an Airplane from Seattle's...
If John Oliver Wants To Be Funny About Science Non-Profits, I Can...
Is a McCricket the Breakfast of Our Future?
The New York Times And Chemicals - Amateur Hour Once Again
Sugarcane Genome Finally Gets Sequenced - 80 Percent Of The Sugar...
Most Dangerous Drivers Ranked by State, Age, Race, and Sex
Chemicals & Environment
American Air Is Clean and Getting Cleaner
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Cyclic Aliphatic Bromides Cluster (HBCD)?
The New York Times And Chemicals - Amateur Hour Once Again
Increase in Childhood Cancer Is Not Due to Pesticide
Appeals Court Says EPA Needs To Ban Chlorpyrifos, Even Though Evidence For Harm Has Never Been Seen
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Carbon Tetrachloride?
You'll Need To Re-Use That Cotton Shopping Bag 7,100 Times For It To Make Environmental Sense
Atacama Desert Has Highest Levels of UV Radiation on Earth
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Food & Nutrition
Is a McCricket the Breakfast of Our Future?
A Spoonful of Salt Makes The Blood Pressure Go Down
Ketogenic Diet Linked To Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Upside To Tariffs: Fewer Supplements in the U.S.
Smokers Likely To Have Worse Diets Too
Your July 4th Cookout Will Be Cheaper This Year - Thanks Farmers!
Genetics or Lifestyle - Where Is The Cause of Disease?
Fad Diets Are Bad Diets
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Biology & Biotech
Sugarcane Genome Finally Gets Sequenced - 80 Percent Of The Sugar Market Rejoices
Could 'Smoking Gun' DNA Sequence Lead Detectives to Biological Terrorist?
Genome-Wide Association Studies - ACSH Explains
In Making Some Antibiotics, Bacteria Put Organic Chemists To Shame
'Kill and Release' Antibacterial Surface
Darkness May Cause Spinal Abnormalities in Cave Fish
Modern Scientific Advance Best Shot At Success For Boys Trapped In Thai Cave
'GMO' is a Meaningless, Misleading Term
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Health & Medicine
ACSH Is Fake News! So Says An Anti-Vax, Conspiracy Loving Screwball
Woman Donates Her Heart And Lives To Tell About It! Now, THAT Is Innovation.
How To Prevent Increased Lung Cancer Risk For Young Breast Cancer Survivors
Allergic To Vitamin B12? It's The Cobalt
New Shingles Vaccine: Victim of Its Own Success
Is It Checkmate For Pharma's Epic Gaming Of Patents?
Naloxone Remains Controversial, But It Shouldn't Be
Aspirin Dosage, to Battle Heart Disease, May Depend on Your Weight
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Policy & Ethics
The Grande Armee Of Big Organic May Be Marching Toward Its Waterloo
Then They Came For My Xanax - Opioid Madness Metastasizes
Medicare for All: The Devilish Details of Higher Costs, More Access & Possible Savings
Another Year, Another Failed Breastfeeding Policy Push By WHO, UNICEF
Lawsuit Against Anthem Aims To Protect Patients From Insurer’s Bad Policy
Two Anti-Opioid Zealots Run Into A Biostatistician. Here's What Happened.
When You Have a Hereditary Disease, Who Has The Right To Know?
Legal Liver Transplant Focuses Attention On The Human Organ Trade
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Harm Reduction
Condom Re-Use is a Thing. It Shouldn't Be.
Kicking Butts in New England; MA to Raise Smoking Age to 21
Does Case Volume Promote Safety While Reducing Access? CMS and Physicians Wrestle With The Trade-Off
'Seasoning' a Frying Pan Leads to New Approach for Food Safety
Cancer Patients Who Use Complementary Medicine (Refuse Conventional) Twice As Likely To Die, Says Study
That's Disgusting
Sunscreen Alone Not Enough for the Fair-Skinned, Study Finds
With High Rates of Marijuana Poisonings, Dogs Getting ‘High’ Is No Laughing Matter
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Disease
The Toll of Diabetes
Another Untrue Study of Gender Disparity In Caring for Patients
Do Artificial Sweeteners Prevent Cancer?
Stem Cell Transplants For Treating Crohn’s Disease Goes Into Clinical Trial
McDonald's Outbreak: What Is Cyclospora?
Big Pharma Tames Liver Cancer And Drunks Set It Loose Again
Continuous Glucose Monitoring Changes Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes
Cats and Dogs: The Superbug Risk
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Neuroscience & Social Sciences
No, CTE Didn't Make a Man Steal an Airplane from Seattle's Airport
Most Dangerous Drivers Ranked by State, Age, Race, and Sex
Women Fear Afterlife More than Men
Phobias Predict Mental Health Problems
The Most Common Methods of Murder
Killings of Unarmed Black Americans And Increased Poor Mental Health: An Epidemiological Look
The Problem With P-Values
World Cup Goalies, Don't Dive During Penalty Kicks. Just Stand There.
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News & Views
College Students' Sleep Article Proves Much More Popular Online
If John Oliver Wants To Be Funny About Science Non-Profits, I Can Help Write Better Material
Can (And Should We Try To) Quantify The Complexity That Is Gender Inequality In Medicine?
2.6 Million Studies On Exercise And Mental Health Weren't Enough, So Government Did One More.
As Russians Target Our Electrical Grid, Here's What's Needed To Protect It
Too Much Information - TMI Comes To Health Care
The Boondoggle Money Grab That Is ICD-11 Will Not Help Patients (Or Healthcare)
Women's Soccer 'Heading' Study Comes Up Short of the Goal
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Parents & Kids
Neighbors Calling Cops On Kid Selling Cookies Speaks To Bigger Societal Ail
Anti-Anxiety Meds Given to Boys For Rescue Mission From Thai Cave - An Important Lesson On Risk
Targeted, Regional Approach Likely Best To Improve Vaccine Rates
Teen Pregnancy Rate Falls to All-Time Low in Minnesota
A Shifting Parenting Paradigm?
Thank You, FDA! This Action Against OTC Anesthetics For Babies Is Overdue
For Healthy Aging, We Need To Fight The Dark Side of Evolution
Pediatric Cancer Care - The Empathy Would Work For Adults Also
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