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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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Can Phenylbutyric Acid (PBA) 'Unstress' Cells and Tame...
Scientific Journals Are Now Like Facebook
The Ongoing Tragedy of the 737 MAX
Every Picture Tells a Story: For COVID-19 Mortality, Does Geography...
On the Proposal Not to Vaccinate the Aged for COVID-19
Rand Corporation Reports Commercial Insurers Pay More For Healthcare
Every Picture Tells a Story: Correlation & Causation
Every Picture Tells a Story: Jupiter & Europa
Snake Oil in the Early 1900s Was Radioactive. Seriously.
Mass Bacterial Infection from Chinese Pharmaceutical Company Casts...
What I'm Reading (Sept 17)
Scientific American Endorses Biden and Risks Losing Whatever...
Chemicals & Chemistry
You Need No Longer Fear Dr. Duck's Deadly Buttons!
An Abysmal Chemistry Lesson About Bismuth
Hair Dye and Cancer, the Chemistry Behind the Scare
What Poisoned Alexei Navalny? And the WSJ Needs A Chemistry Lesson.
Beyond Science and Decisions: Results from the Recent Workshop
Date-Rape Drug GHB is Back With 2 Clandestine Cousins. And a Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
Is Your Caffeine Natural or Synthetic? Perhaps the Most Pointless Study Ever.
Why Does Ammonium Nitrate Explode?
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Food & Nutrition
Coffee, a Story of Two Beans
The Animal Given Antibiotic-Free Feed Probably Had Antibiotics Anyway
The Corn Oil Controversy: Are Polyunsaturated Fats Bad for Us?
Every Picture Tells a Story: On-line Groceries
Celery Juice Craziness: Folks, There’s No Rational Reason to Imbibe!
In Defense of Potatoes
Is There Bias in How We Judge GMOs?
Eat Like a Bird and Weight Loss Will Be a Dead Sirt
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Biomedicine & Biotech
COVID: No, Coronavirus Wasn't Created in a Laboratory. Genetics Shows Why.
Oral vs. IV Tylenol in the Elderly: The 'Let's Kick Granny Down the Stairs' Study
FDA's Reckless Gamble: Emergency Use of COVID-19 Vaccine Prior to Phase 3 Clinical Trial Completion Is Nuts
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Pathologists, Radiologists, Microbiologists?
Vaccine Nationalism Is an Exaggerated Threat
Russia's Coronavirus Vaccine Is Not a 'Sputnik Moment'
Vaccines Change Susceptibility to Unrelated Diseases, Sometimes for the Worse
Coronavirus Update: A Key Mutation, Vaccines, and Herd Immunity
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Can Phenylbutyric Acid (PBA) 'Unstress' Cells and Tame COVID-19?
The Trouble With a Premature Vaccine
Antimicrobial Resistance & Europe: What Happened?
A Bad COVID Vaccine Would Spawn More Conspiracy Theories
Oxford Vaccine's Nasty Side Effect Is Why We Do Phase 3 Clinical Trials
City of San Francisco Pays for Billboard on 'Safe' Heroin Injection
Natural Lithium in Drinking Water Linked to Lower Suicide Rates
Politics and the FDA
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Policy & Ethics
Scientific Journals Are Now Like Facebook
On the Proposal Not to Vaccinate the Aged for COVID-19
Rand Corporation Reports Commercial Insurers Pay More For Healthcare
Snake Oil in the Early 1900s Was Radioactive. Seriously.
Time to Revise the CDC ‘Get Informed’ Web Page
A Coronavirus Vaccine October Surprise Could Become A November Nightmare
Some Politicians Remain in State of Denial About the Overdose Crisis
COVID: Coronavirus Controversies over Vaccine Trials, Convalescent Plasma, Death Toll
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Harm Reduction
The Ongoing Tragedy of the 737 MAX
Why is the West Coast In Flames?
It's Time for Seasonal Flu Vaccination
Thinking Aloud: Ending Emergency Use Authorizations for COVID-19
Every Picture Tells a Story: Health Literacy and COVID-19
Thinking Aloud: Who Gets the Vaccine First?
Every Picture Tells a Story - Instapot Edition
To Fight COVID-19, Do We Need To Socially Distance More Than Just Ourselves?
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Disease
Every Picture Tells a Story: For COVID-19 Mortality, Does Geography Matter?
Mass Bacterial Infection from Chinese Pharmaceutical Company Casts Doubts on COVID Vaccine
CDC Reports Latest Aggregate Data on COVID-19 and children
Tracking and Tracing in the Time of Covid: Public Good or Unreasonable Search and Seizure?
COVID-19: A Virus Update
The Latest News on COVID: Viral Arrival, Years of Life Lost, and Competition from Rhinovirus
The Sturgis Effect
COVID-19: A Tale of Two Cities
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Mental Health & Society
No Evidence that Blue-Light Blocking Glasses Help with Sleep
Bioethics Professor Suggests Adding 'Mind Control' Hormones to Water Supply to Fight COVID
Overpopulation Myth: New Study Predicts Population Decline This Century
Like Herpes, New Conspiracy Theories Erupt from Anti-Tech Activists
Prominent Environmentalist Censored by Forbes, Called 'White Supremacist' for Writing Sense About Climate Change
Conspiracy Theory About Bill Gates, COVID Vaccine Doesn't Make Logical Sense
Science Communicators Are Routinely Lied About, Harassed, Threatened
New York Times' Bari Weiss Is a Victim of Workplace Bullying
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Other Science News
Every Picture Tells a Story: Correlation & Causation
Every Picture Tells a Story: Jupiter & Europa
What I'm Reading (Sept 17)
Scientific American Endorses Biden and Risks Losing Whatever Readership It Has Left
What I'm Reading (Sept. 10)
What I'm Reading (Sept 3)
ACSH in the Media: August 2020
What I'm Reading (Aug. 27)
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Parents & Kids
How Tough Are the CDC's School Guidelines?
Every Picture Tells A Story – School Closings and Child Care
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
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