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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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Travel in the Shadow of COVID
Recent SIDS Coverage Shows How Science Journalism Should Work
COVID-19: Vaccination, Equality, Equity
Uterine Transplants in Trans Women: Ethicists Sound In
What I'm Reading (May 20)
IV Tylenol Flops in Yet Another Pain Trial ... To No One's...
Another COVID Casualty: Pariah-tizing the Elderly
Paxlovid Doesn't Prevent You From Catching COVID. Here's...
Are Advertising Trackers a Conflicted Interest for Medical Journals?
ACSH Podcast: Nonsensical Vaccine Mandates; Diet Soda Promotes Weight...
Good Genes, Good Diet ... or Both?
Going Vegan: The Best Way to Lose Weight?

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Chemicals & Chemistry

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Reader Request: The Epoch Times' Glyphosate Hysteria Debunked
ACSH Podcast: 825 Million IQ points Lost to Lead Exposure, Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain?
French Artificial Sweetener-Cancer Study is 'Le Bullsweet'
Xenon, the 'Stranger Gas': A Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
Stolen Catalytic Converters? It's the Rhodium. A Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell.
How to 'Prove' a Chemical is Dangerous: The Glyphosate Case Study
The Flint Water Dept. Failed its Chemistry Test
Refuting 'Crazy Joe' Mercola's Glyphosate-Autism Scare Story
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Food & Nutrition

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Going Vegan: The Best Way to Lose Weight?
Chicken Splash: When Water Meets Raw Chicken
Obesity Denial? LiveStrong Drinks 'Fat Acceptance' Kool-Aid
Nobody Knows About Glyphosate: More Evidence GMO Debate is Over
Oreology: A Study of Oreo's Stuffing
The Origin of the Species–ism
Why We Can't 'Nudge,' or Tax, Obesity Out of Existence
Fructose is Fructose is Fructose
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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Paxlovid Doesn't Prevent You From Catching COVID. Here's Why That's Good News.
Plant-Based Vaccines? Medicago's COVID Shot Leads the Way
Are COVID Vaccines Responsible for the Variants?
Coming to a Drug Store Near You: mRNA Flu Vaccines?
COVID Vaccine Safety and VAERS: 4 Common Questions Answered
Killer COVID Vaccines? Yet Another Study Shows the Shots Are Safe
OY ... AY4.2 Delta. A New COVID Variant Shows Up. Should We Worry?
Should Merck’s COVID Pill Be Granted Emergency Use Authorization?
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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IV Tylenol Flops in Yet Another Pain Trial ... To No One's Surprise
COVID Rebound Following Paxlovid Therapy; Should We Worry?
The Clinical Trial That Should (But Probably Won't) Close the Book on Ivermectin
Pull Incentives for Antibiotic R&D, and Private Investment
COVID Drugs Now Available, But Not Being Used. Why?
The Lakers are Sick, Magic Johnson is Healthy: An AIDS Lesson From an Art Exhibit
AMA Statement on 'Test to Treat' Does Not Align Well With Patients’ Interests
Biden's 'Test to Treat' COVID Program is the Right Medicine
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Policy & Ethics

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COVID-19: Vaccination, Equality, Equity
Uterine Transplants in Trans Women: Ethicists Sound In
Another COVID Casualty: Pariah-tizing the Elderly
ACSH Podcast: Nonsensical Vaccine Mandates; Diet Soda Promotes Weight Loss
Living in an Altima Really Ain't So Bad
Hypocrisy: Science Journals Refuse to Publish 'Tobacco Industry' Research
New Wrinkle in the Menthol Ban
The Curse of Knowledge and Whole Genome Sequencing
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Harm Reduction

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Are Advertising Trackers a Conflicted Interest for Medical Journals?
Anti-Vaping Bias Undermines E-cigarette Research? New Study Raises Questions
Twitter, the Game
The Swinging Pendulum of Societal Distrust, and the Saga of Radium Poisoning
PFAS: Fear and Misinformation Runs Wild
Doctor's Orders: Many Physicians Endorse Vaping As Safer Alternative to Smoking
Lung Cancer, Smoking, and Air Pollution – Vive la Difference!
The Mask Debate
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Disease

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Travel in the Shadow of COVID
Good Genes, Good Diet ... or Both?
How Are We Doing in the War Against Prediabetes?
COVID-19: Two Years In, Where Have We Been?
'Un-Herd' Immunity: Covid Pulls Another Trick Out of its Viral Envelope
The Ecology of Medicine
Every Picture Tells a Story: Orthopedists and Infections. Is 24 Hours Enough?
Spring is Here. Where Have All the COVID Cases Gone?
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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
A Solution to COVID Vaccine Refusal: Take the Jab or Lose Your Job
Anti-Tech Terrorism: Was Nashville Bomber Anthony Warner Afraid of 5G?
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Other Science News

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What I'm Reading (May 20)
The Fragility of P-Values
What I'm Reading (May 12)
What I'm Reading (May 5)
Virtual Care: The Next Wild Frontier
The Blue Dragon: A Deadly Marine Monstrosity With a Truly Disgusting Diet
What I'm Reading (Apr. 28)
ACSH Explains: Mediation Analysis
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Parents & Kids

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Recent SIDS Coverage Shows How Science Journalism Should Work
The Advantages of Breast Feeding
Teen Vaping: What We Get Wrong About This 'Serious Problem'
The Smell of a Mother
'Make Me a Fragrance That Smells Like Love'
New Parent? 3 Things You Should Know About Internet Baby Advice
Heavy-Metal 'Tainted' Baby Food? Congressional Report Omits Important Science
Family Feud: Here's How I Protect My Newborn From His Anti-Vaxx Relatives
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Popular Articles

Another COVID Casualty: Pariah-tizing the Elderly
How Are We Doing in the War Against Prediabetes?
Uterine Transplants in Trans Women: Ethicists Sound In
Are Advertising Trackers a Conflicted Interest for Medical Journals?
IV Tylenol Flops in Yet Another Pain Trial ... To No One's Surprise

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Health Scares vs. Health Threats

Thank You, Trial Lawyers, For Protecting Us from the Scourge of Baby Powder
Coronavirus: Fear of a Pandemic, or a Pandemic of Fear?
95% of Baby Food Tainted with Toxic Metals? Don't Panic
Everything Goes to Pot: Myths Are Driving FDA, CDC Vaping Policy
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Celebrities vs. Science

What the Hulk? 9/11 Truther Mark Ruffalo Testifies to Congress on Science
Nothing Grimes Said About Eyeballs or Depression Makes Any Sense
Jeff Bezos' Plan to Colonize Space is Based on Sheer Nonsense
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is Helping Spread Flu and Cervical Cancer
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Groups Who Hate Us

Journalists Regurgitate 'The Monsanto Papers'
Anti-Monsanto Lawyer and USRTK, Carey Gillam Collaborator Possibly Headed to Prison for Extortion
Journalist Peter Fairley Cites Anti-Vaxx Website, Spreads Misinformation on Flu, COVID-19
DeSmogBlog: Climate Website Is Headed by Anti-Vaxxer Brendan DeMelle
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Free Speech Zone

My Definition of a Scientist
RIP Jane Newton
If Our Science Tribe Was a D&D Game
Why Ice Makes This Odd Sound
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