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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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What I'm Reading (May 9)
Does Compelling Graphic Warnings on Cigarettes Violate Freedom of...
The Media and I: Viral Disease
Delta-8 THC: Good Luck. You'll Never Know What You're...
America’s Enormous National Debt is a Public Health Threat
Unveiling Metformin's Role in COVID-19 Treatment
In the Escalating Arms Race Between Viruses and Humans, New COVID...
How Significant is the Methylene Chloride Ban?
Flicker Fusion is 'More Than Meets the Eye'
Podcast: Deadly Microplastics in Your Arteries? Not So Fast.
Pesticides and Parkinson's Disease: Playing Genetic Roulette?
HIV Needle Infections, Then And Now: An AIDS Retrospective
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To Lunchable or Not to Lunchable?
In the Escalating Arms Race Between Viruses and Humans, New COVID Vaccines Are Critical
Delta-8 THC: Good Luck. You'll Never Know What You're Getting.
ACSH Explains: Lifestyle Medicine
How Significant is the Methylene Chloride Ban?
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Chemicals & Chemistry
Podcast: Deadly Microplastics in Your Arteries? Not So Fast.
Fool's Gold: Looks Like Gold & Used By Fools. But it May Be Important.
Can Poisoned Hand Sanitizer Be Explained By a Moonshine Lesson?
Hangover Prevention: Hype or Hope?
The Environmental Working Group Recycles Old Tricks: Now it's a 'New' Pesticide
Podcast: Tylenol Plus Advil Combo Equals Exploitation; Phony Pesticide Scares
Anatomy of a Pesticide Scare: The Phony Whistleblower Gambit
IARC Strikes Again, Misguidedly
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Food & Nutrition
Podcast: Skipping Meals Restores Your Youth? The Science Behind Fasting.
Does Size Matter? Apparently, For Snacks, it Does
CNN's Toxic Take on the Danger of Methylene Chloride in Decaf Coffee
Natural Deception: 3 Marketing Myths the Supplement Industry Wants You to Swallow
The Impact of Ultra-Processed Foods on the Brain
Pop-Tarts Inventor Bill Post, Is Toast
Snake, The Other White Meat
Can Fasting Reverse Aging?
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Biomedicine & Biotech
Zombie Deer, Prion Disease & Another Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
EU Continues Its Unscientific, Anti-Innovation Regulation of Genetic Engineering
The Media and I: Enhancing the Soil to Improve Farming
Why Is Your Underwear Yellow in Front and Brown in the Back: A Chemistry Lesson From the Bowels of Hell
Could Llamas be the Answer to the 'Stomach Flu?' Not as Ridiculous as it Sounds.
The Tale of Human Insulin, FDA, and the Bureaucrat’s Mindset
Reduce Synthetic Fertilizers and Improve Yields? The Microbiome Revolution Comes to Agriculture.
Greenpeace’s Vile War on the Poor and Vulnerable
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Delta-8 THC: Good Luck. You'll Never Know What You're Getting.
Facebook's Dr. Feelgood & His Magical Sleep Potions
CBD Flops Big Time For Pain
Podcast: Prohibition Absurdity – Drug Warriors Take Opioids From Terminal Cancer Patients
Xolair: An Asthma Drug Also Controls Food Allergies
Naloxone and Naltrexone: Virtually Identical But Very Different
The Media and I: Historic Medical Technologies
Single Dose of LSD Can Treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder for Months: Here’s Why
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Policy & Ethics
America’s Enormous National Debt is a Public Health Threat
Who Says There is Immunity for Compelling COVID Vaccination?
Beer, Wine, Whiskey, Cigars, and Cigarettes Are Not on the DEA’s List of Controlled Substances. Cannabis Shouldn't Be Either.
Crime and Punishment Progressive vs. Law-and-Order Prosecutors
Who Do You Trust? (Science Edition)
Killing Dogs: What Kristi Noem and PETA Have in Common
Podcast: AI in Medicine — Who's to Blame When Things Go Wrong?
Should Med Schools Strive to Produce Competent Physicians or Social Activists?
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Harm Reduction
How Significant is the Methylene Chloride Ban?
ACSH Explains: Lifestyle Medicine
Med Mal: Who Creates the Crisis, Lawyers or the Doctors?
Battling the Tides of Social Media Misinformation
Tardigrades: Nature's Tiny Radiation Super Survivors
Will Cole, and the Grift of Functional Medicine
Thinking Out Loud: Cutting Through the SawStop Debate over Table Saw Safety
Head Banging: The Dangers of Football and Fandom
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Disease
The Media and I: Viral Disease
Unveiling Metformin's Role in COVID-19 Treatment
In the Escalating Arms Race Between Viruses and Humans, New COVID Vaccines Are Critical
Pesticides and Parkinson's Disease: Playing Genetic Roulette?
HIV Needle Infections, Then And Now: An AIDS Retrospective
Avian Flu Virus is Spreading and Has Been Found in Raw Milk from Infected Cows. Should We Be Concerned?
The Media and I: Measles
Zombie Deer, Prion Disease & Another Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
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Mental Health & Society
It's April 8th ... Let's Celebrate Dog Farting Awareness Day!
The Things We Do For Love: The Atomic Penile Pump From Hell
Is Porn Bad For You? A Skeptical Look at NPR's Dismissive Answer
Did the Fentanyl Wave Hit Oregon Just as Voters Decriminalized Drugs?
Does Social Media Have Anything in Common with Child Porn?
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?
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Other Science News
What I'm Reading (May 9)
Flicker Fusion is 'More Than Meets the Eye'
What I Am Reading May 2nd
The Media and I: 'Oppenheimer'
What I'm Reading (Apr. 25)
Science Creep is a Menace
Great Women in Science: Emmy Noether, Greatest Female Mathematician
What I'm Reading (Apr. 18)
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Parents & Kids
To Lunchable or Not to Lunchable?
Problematic Pregnancy: Are Doulas a Solution?
Modern Salem-Witch Trials: Acetaminophen Actions for Autism
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
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