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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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Spt6: New Gene Expression Mechanism With Possible Role In Cancer
Government Is The Big Reason EpiPen And Other Generics Are So...
In NEJM, Did Authors Get It Wrong On Informed Consent?
Ovine Rinderpest Outbreak in Europe: Wait, Wasn't That...
For Younger Women, Breast-Cancer Risk Lessens With Weight Gain, Study...
The Smoke and Mirrors of Vaping
A Doctor's Guide: How To Be A Patient Advocacy Rock Star (For...
'Science' Publishes Environmentalist Scaremongering
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Trichloroethylene (TCE)?
Hey Scientists, Quantifying Baseball's Winning 'Chemistry...
UCSF Publishes Anti-Biotech Propaganda, Refuses to Answer Questions
Machines Learn to Read Hospital Records, Will Doctor's...
Chemicals & Environment
'Science' Publishes Environmentalist Scaremongering
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Trichloroethylene (TCE)?
Dear Aromatherapy Fans, You're Inhaling a Carcinogen
ACSH Explains: What's The Story On Dioxane?
Urushiol, the Poison in Poison Ivy
IARC Is Changing Its Preamble But Will That Mean A Change In Its Credibility?
99.99% Of The Pesticides We Eat Are Made By Plants
With Glyphosate, Science Claws Out A Victory In France, While Ramazzini Loses More Credibility In Belgium
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Food & Nutrition
Is Sitting the New Cancer?
Alternative Medication Use Doubling In Kids, With Teen Rates Highest
Is Soaking Your Nuts In Chlorine A Good Idea?
When It Comes to Food, We Act More Like Dogs than Cats
Food Fad Debunked: Milk Doesn't Cause Obesity In Kids
Both High-, Low-IQ People Drink More
Food Companies Need To Stop Apologizing For Being In Business
Science For The Win: Golden Rice Gets The Nod From FDA
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Biology & Biotech
Chlorophyll-f Discovery: New Type of Photosynthesis
How Whale ‘Blow’ And Drones Can Inform On Emerging Disease
Stem Cell Donation - My Personal Account
Precision Medicine: Overselling Routine DNA Sequencing In Primary Care
Wallace Genetic Foundation: Funding Anti-Science Deniers For Hire
Gates, In Funding Universal Flu Vaccine, Warns of Global Unpreparedness
Will Science Solve Mystery Of World’s Likely Largest Ritualistic Killing of Children?
Cyclops Animals and Other Threats Poisonous Plants Pose to Livestock
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Health & Medicine
Government Is The Big Reason EpiPen And Other Generics Are So Expensive
Fecal Transplants Beat Antibiotics In Treating A Lethal Form of Diarrhea
Herpes Vaccines Flop. What About Drugs? Pritelivir: A Page From The AIDS Playbook
Many 1st-Time, Post-Op Users of Painkillers Stay on Them. But Addiction? Not Quite.
Are You Woke About Drug Co-payments?
Vical’s Herpes Vaccine Bombs; Company to Exit HSV Research
Tipping Point Analysis: Why Peer Review Didn't Catch Drug Study Issues That FDA Did
How Synthetic Marijuana Can Make You Urinate Blood and Die
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Policy & Ethics
In NEJM, Did Authors Get It Wrong On Informed Consent?
UCSF Publishes Anti-Biotech Propaganda, Refuses to Answer Questions
EPA 'Secret Science': No More Rationalization, It's Time For That To Go
Abilify MyCite: Mental Health Drug With A Sensor Embedded Raises Troubling Questions
'Mom-Shaming' Got So Bad, Not Doing So Had To Become Official Policy
Accountable Care Organizations Want The Rewards But Few Want The Risk
The One Thing Alternative Medicine Gets Right
Genetic Testing Isn’t What It Has Been Sold As
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Harm Reduction
The Smoke and Mirrors of Vaping
A Doctor's Guide: How To Be A Patient Advocacy Rock Star (For You Or A Loved One)
Americans Want Cancer Screens, Even If Told Screen Is Worthless
Debunking Myths About The Past, Present And Future of Opioids
San Francisco Bans Tobacco Flavors And A Study Looks At E-Cigarette Flavor Cardiovascular Effects
Instead of Antidepressants, Should Doctors Prescribe Nicotine?
A Third-hand Smoke Screen of Fear
Doctors are Not Victims
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Disease
Spt6: New Gene Expression Mechanism With Possible Role In Cancer
Ovine Rinderpest Outbreak in Europe: Wait, Wasn't That Eradicated?
For Younger Women, Breast-Cancer Risk Lessens With Weight Gain, Study Finds
Could a Single Vaccine Prevent Multiple Diseases Spread by Mosquitoes?
ConFabulous - 'Smoothing Over' Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s
Crimean-Congo: The 'Asian Ebola' Virus
Don't Blame Wheat Breeding for Celiac, Gluten Sensitivity
Rabies in Seattle. Tuberculosis in San Diego. Hepatitis A in Nashville. Why?
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Neuroscience & Social Sciences
World Cup Goalies, Don't Dive During Penalty Kicks. Just Stand There.
Can Religion Extend Your Life?
'Will Somebody Find Me A One-Handed Scientist?!'
Forced to Fight, CTE Claims Another Young, Ex-NHL Player
Suicides Outnumber Murders 6 to 1 for Whites; Murders Outnumber Suicides 3.5 to 1 for Blacks
Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar: The Psychology of Pure Hate
Woman Plays Flute While Undergoing Brain Surgery, Video Goes Viral
Medieval Woman's Remains Show She Gave ‘Birth’ In Coffin After Death, Had Brain Surgery
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News & Views
Hey Scientists, Quantifying Baseball's Winning 'Chemistry' is a Loser's Game
Machines Learn to Read Hospital Records, Will Doctor's Handwriting Be Next?
5 Snail-Sucking Snakes Discovered
New York Times: Pseudoscience and Sleeping with Sources
Academia in Meltdown: Pro-GMO Prof Fired, Anti-GMO Prof Gets Honored
Astronauts, Seeking Better Sleep, Change the Lights to Mimic the Sun
Dr. Oz, America's Quack, Endorses Astrology
Modern Medicine Bullies Indigenous Knowledge, Journal Argues with Straight Face
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Parents & Kids
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
No M.D.? No Problem! The Many Ways To Impact Healthcare Without Practicing Medicine
Some More Clarity On SIDS, But So Much Still Unknown
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