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    • Priorities Magazine Spring 2018
    • The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It
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    • 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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Food & Nutrition

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Biomedicine & Biotech

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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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Cannabis for Smart Consumers: What the Industry Does Not Want You to Know.
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Policy & Ethics

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Harm Reduction

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Every Picture Tells a Story: Numbers Over Words
Vaping Prohibition: FDA Bans JUUL E-Cigarettes
How Low Can it Go? The Story of BPA
Another View of EPA's Formaldehyde Review
Double Standards Undermine Campaign Against Flavored E-Cigarettes
Red Flag Warnings: What Do We Know?
Guns: Today’s Rorschach Test
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Disease

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To Be or Not To Be: Counting Deaths
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Mental Health & Society

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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
COVID: Media Literally Makes Us Sick with Non-Stop Bad News
The Anti-Vaxx Playbook: How to Spread Anti-Vaccine Propaganda
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Parents & Kids

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The Smell of a Mother
'Make Me a Fragrance That Smells Like Love'
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