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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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An Epidemic of Red Tape
AARP Scares Old People into Eating Organic Food
Vaccines and Therapies for Coronavirus
A Small Trial Finds that Hydroxychloroquine Is Not Effective for...
Vaccine, Antiviral, or Antibody: When Will a Coronavirus Treatment Be...
How Do We Ration Ventilators?
Tracking COVID-19
Drowning in Morons: Coronavirus Edition
Testing for COVID-19, False Positives & Negatives
Air Pollution: What’s So Special About PM2.5?
Truth: Another Casualty of the Coronavirus
Coronavirus: The US Debacle (Part 1)
Chemicals & Chemistry
OMG! We Made One Gram of Remdesivir!
Chlorpyrifos: A Hostage of the Secret Science Rule?
What Is the Safe Dose of Any Chemical?
EPA Refutes Study Claiming Glyphosate Boosts Cancer Risk
What is Toxicology? And Who is a Toxicologist?
Introducing Dr. Michael Dourson, America's Toxicologist
How the 'World's Smelliest Substance' Saves Lives
Skatole - A Natural Monstrosity in Perfume, Parliaments, Produce and Poop
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Food & Nutrition
AARP Scares Old People into Eating Organic Food
Is GNC an Essential Service?
No, a Big Breakfast Isn’t Necessarily Going to Help You Lose Weight
Why Dogs Don't Need Vitamin C But Humans Do
Confused About Obesity, Supplements and Organic Food? Here's A Handbook For Busting Nutrition Myths
Activated Almonds? You Must be Nuts!
Fishy Science: The Environmentally Dangerous Fish Stick?
Low Carb or Low Fat?
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Biomedicine & Biotech
How to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine
From Math To Politics, Some Problems Don’t Have Solutions (Part II)
High-Tech Gets The Headlines But Low-Tech Can Cut Health Care Costs And Save Lives
How to Make Money by Spreading Anti-GMO Propaganda
Release the Franken-Nuts! GMO Chestnut Trees May Repopulate Forests
The Economic Conundrum for Antibacterial Drugs
Much of the Buzz About Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Is Wrong
NYT's Eric Lipton Defends Anti-Vaxxers as Measles Ravages Europe
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Vaccines and Therapies for Coronavirus
A Small Trial Finds that Hydroxychloroquine Is Not Effective for Treating Coronavirus
'It All Comes Back to China'
Governors Discover One‐Size‐Fits‐All Regs Can Be a Straitjacket. Same's True with Pain Prescription Limits.
Will Remdesivir Work in Humans? Monkey Data Suggest Yes
Coronavirus: My Secret Hope
Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn't the Answer
Chloroquine for Coronavirus? Not So Fast
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Policy & Ethics
An Epidemic of Red Tape
Drowning in Morons: Coronavirus Edition
Anti-Vaccine Group 'Children's Health Defense' Smells a Coronavirus Conspiracy
Coronavirus: Our Relationship with China Should Never Go Back to Normal
Coronavirus: NYT Reporter Wants Sick Americans Forced into Chinese-Style Quarantine Camps
Should Hospitals Practice Better Social Distancing?
States Lead The Way in Coronavirus Crisis with Emergency Removal of Occupational Licensing Obstacles. Why Not Make Them Permanent?
DeSmogBlog: Climate Website Is Headed by Anti-Vaxxer Brendan DeMelle
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Harm Reduction
Every Picture tells a Story - Twitter Measures Social Mobility
Testing for COVID-19, False Positives & Negatives
Air Pollution: What’s So Special About PM2.5?
Coronavirus: It is Time to Consider Face Masks for Civilians?
Now That We Are Socially Distancing, When Can We Socially Mingle?
Even at Home, Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste
Should We Lower Blood Alcohol Concentration's Legal Limit?
Air Pollution and Mortality: Measuring the Long and Short of It
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Disease
Vaccine, Antiviral, or Antibody: When Will a Coronavirus Treatment Be Available?
Every Picture Tells A Story - April 6th
How Do We Ration Ventilators?
Tracking COVID-19
Truth: Another Casualty of the Coronavirus
The Great Face Mask Debate: To Wear or Not to Wear?
Coronavirus: Rudy Giuliani Spreads Misinformation on COVID-19
Pandemic Diary, March 2020
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Mental Health & Society
From Math To Politics, Some Problems Don’t Have Solutions (Part III)
Social Media Makes YOU Part of the Fake News Problem
Fertility Rate Hits All-Time Low, But U.S. on Track for 400 Million in 2050s
Don't Abolish Billionaires. The World Is a Better Place Because of Them
Traffic Violence: Elizabeth Warren Redefines 'Car Accident'
Fix America's Workaholic Culture: Make Every Weekend Three Days Long
Lundy Bancroft: An Anti-Vaxxer Who Thinks All Men Are Abusers
Scientific American Says 5G Is Dangerous, Vegetables Are Junk Food
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Other Science News
What I'm Reading (Apr 2)
What I'm Reading (Mar. 26)
DeSmogBlog: Climate Activist Site Smears Freeman Dyson and Other Scientists
What I'm Reading (Mar. 19)
ACSH in the Media: Coronavirus Edition
What I'm Reading (Mar. 13)
Men, The Truly Weaker Sex
What I'm Reading (Mar. 6)
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Parents & Kids
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
Do 3D Scans Show More Trauma To Baby's Head At Birth Than We Knew?
U.S. Births Hit Lowest Number in 32 Years
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