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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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Thinking Out Loud: The Taste to Intelligence Ratio Test
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Are “Universal” COVID Vaccines In Our Future?
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The Scourge of Long COVID – And a Drug to Prevent It
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Podcast: Tylenol After Surgery is Useless; CVS Sued for Selling Homeopathic 'Remedies'
How the Media Got the Vinyl Chloride Risk All Wrong (Reason Magazine)
Podcast: 'Peer-Reviewed' Science Ain't So Scientific; Alcohol and Cancer Risk In Context
Putting the East Palestine Train Accident in Perspective
Vinyl Chloride and the Ohio Train Derailment
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People Worry Hysterically About Low Risk Carcinogens. And Then They Drink
4-ANPP: Fentanyl in Waiting
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Food & Nutrition

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Podcast: Could 'Woke' Policies Harm Public Health? FDA's Silly 'Healthy' Food Labels
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Bees – Parasites, Pesticides, and Climate Change
FDA Wants to Label Foods as 'Healthy'
Debunking the Erythritol Study
Breaking a Few Eggs
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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How Biotechnology Overregulation Harms Farmers, Boosts Food Costs and Fuels Inflation
Genetic Engineering Critic Vandana Shiva's Anti-Modernity Crusade Threatens the World's Poor
Agricultural Biotechnology Will Help the Environment with Less Regulatory Hurdles
Will the Biden Administration’s Attempt to Boost the ‘Bioeconomy’ Do the Opposite?
How the Feds Froze Out a High-Tech Frost Fix
Biopharming Has a Tough Row to Hoe
The Strange Saga of the FDA’s Approval of an Alzheimer’s Drug
What Makes Omicron Special? Centaurus Gives Us a Clue
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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Antibiotic Biotech Execs Share Their Concerns
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The Newest, Best COVID Treatment Could Be the One You Can’t Get
No, Homeopathic 'Remedies' and OTC Drugs Don't Belong on the Same Shelf
Which Drugs Really Help with Motion Sickness?
Antidepressants Fail for Pain: A Look at the Data
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Policy & Ethics

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The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act Is a Good Step in the Right Direction, But It Should Go Further
East Palestine: Regulations Galore and Still a Failure
Andrew Kolodny, With a Straight Face, Wants to Control Tranq By Scheduling It
The J-Man Chronicles: How the Vibrating Poop Pill Threatens Democracy
PART II:  Smart-Kid Creation – Parents vs. the Pros
Designing Super-Smart Kids: Should the Public Have a Say?
Thinking Out Loud: An Abundance of Caution
Does it Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started?
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Harm Reduction

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The Hidden Risk of Soy and Caffeine
Nursing Homes, Shift Work and COVID Vaccinations
Death By Dietary Supplement
Available, Affable, Able: The 3 A’s of Medical Referrals
Unintended Consequence of 'An Ounce of Prevention, Worth a Pound of Cure'
Walking Our Way Towards Health
The Real Risk to Firefighters
Fact vs. Fear
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Disease

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Are “Universal” COVID Vaccines In Our Future?
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The Scourge of Long COVID – And a Drug to Prevent It
The Threat of Candida Auris
Do Masks Prevent COVID? (Spoiler Alert: Of Course, They Do)
County COVID Confusion
Every Picture Tells a Story: Deaths of Physicians
It Can Be Difficult to Know What to Believe, Even in Medical Articles
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Mental Health & Society

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An Interview with Steve, My Roomba
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
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Greed is Good – An Update
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What I’m Reading (Mar. 9)
What I'm Reading (Mar. 2)
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Parents & Kids

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'Holiday Heart' Can Make a Celebration One You Don’t Want to Remember
Autism and Baby Foods
Every Picture Tells a Story: Vaccinating 'The Children'
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'
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Debunking the Erythritol Study

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