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    • Priorities Magazine Spring 2018
    • The Next Plague and How Science Will Stop It
    • Priorities Magazine Winter 2018
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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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Food & Nutrition

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Apeel: A New Chemophobic Concern
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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Greenpeace’s Vile War on the Poor and Vulnerable
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Charles III Might Be King, but He’s Still the Dunce of Wales to Me
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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Tylenol: 6 More Years of Failure
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Policy & Ethics

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Body Fluids for Sale. Are Body Parts Next?
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Will Oregonians Strangle Drug Decriminalization Right After Its Birth?
Podcast: Charging Doctors with Manslaughter; Science Journalists as Paid Political Hacks
Cigarettes Are Sexy! Who Knew?
Laws Based on Rapid Drug Tests Are Unscientific and Unfair
Private Equity Comes for Cardiology
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Harm Reduction

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2 Senators Want More Ignorance About Opioids and Chronic Pain
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Thinking Out Loud: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
E-cigarettes and the Cochrane Review
Head Trauma in Teen Sports: Accept the Risk – or Ban the Ball?
Greenwashing or Real Progress?
Not the Marshmallow Experiment
The Institute for Integrative Nutrition
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Disease

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Following the Data: Newest COVID Vaccination Recommendations
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Causal Maps
COVID-19 is Everywhere, Even in Sewers
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Mental Health & Society

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Many of Our Elected Officials Are Unfit to Serve. Medical Problems Are Sometimes the Cause.
Which Came First, the Cannabis or the Schizophrenia?
Does the Moon Make Us Mad?
An Interview with Steve, My Roomba
Social Media Use Causes Depression And Suicide? It's A Surprisingly Difficult Question To Answer
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Parents & Kids

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Are We Facing Another Coronavirus-Like Viral Pandemic?
Podcast: BMI is Racist? No, CDC, Men Can't Breastfeed
'Father's Milk': CDC's Science-Free Breastfeeding Advice
Baby Formula Shortage: Crisis, Or Ploy to Side-Step Liability?
'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
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