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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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Battling the Tides of Social Media Misinformation
Tardigrades: Nature's Tiny Radiation Super Survivors
Does Size Matter? Apparently, For Snacks, it Does
Science Creep is a Menace
Zombie Deer, Prion Disease & Another Dreaded Chemistry Lesson...
Unmasking Multiple Sclerosis’s Autoimmune Warfare
To Lunchable or Not to Lunchable?
Testing Urine for Prostate Cancer: The Crystal Ball in Your Bladder
Great Women in Science: Emmy Noether, Greatest Female Mathematician
What I'm Reading (Apr. 18)
Every Picture Tells a Story: Birth Control (Male Edition)
Can Poisoned Hand Sanitizer Be Explained By a Moonshine Lesson?
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Unmasking Multiple Sclerosis’s Autoimmune Warfare
Natural Deception: 3 Marketing Myths the Supplement Industry Wants You to Swallow
Testing Urine for Prostate Cancer: The Crystal Ball in Your Bladder
Is it Ever Permissible to Kill a Child? The Morality, Ethics, and Legalities of the Alabama/IVF Ruling
Should Med Schools Strive to Produce Competent Physicians or Social Activists?
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Chemicals & Chemistry
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
Podcast: 'Non-GMO' Labels Don't Make Food Safer; Airhead Actress Peddles Useless 'Natural' Tylenol
If You're a *Poison Expert* it Is Unwise to Poison Your Wife. A Colchicine Lesson.
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Food & Nutrition
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?
For (Key Lime) Pi Day: The World's Best Recipe
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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
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
A New Drug Offers Hope For A Common, Life-Threatening Liver Disease
Podcast: Risks and Benefits of Legal Marijuana
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Policy & Ethics
Podcast: AI in Medicine — Who's to Blame When Things Go Wrong?
Should Med Schools Strive to Produce Competent Physicians or Social Activists?
Discrimination and Identity Politics Have No Place in Medical Education
Is it Ever Permissible to Kill a Child? The Morality, Ethics, and Legalities of the Alabama/IVF Ruling
Japanese Dietary Supplement Kills Kidneys (and Their Owners)
The War on Drugs is Also a War on Pain Patients
IVF, and the Havoc Created by Unborn People
Idaho Slides Backwards, Prioritizing Abstinence Over Preserving Life
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Harm Reduction
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
Formaldehyde: The Decades-Long Saga Continues
The Epic Deterioration Index: Savior or False Prophet?
‘Oppenheimer,’ The Manhattan Project, and Me
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Disease
Zombie Deer, Prion Disease & Another Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
Unmasking Multiple Sclerosis’s Autoimmune Warfare
Testing Urine for Prostate Cancer: The Crystal Ball in Your Bladder
ACSH Explains: The Blood Brain Barrier and 'Leaky' Brain
The Enigma and Disparities of Glaucoma
Unmasking Surgical Infections: Our Microbiome's Dirty Little Secret
H5N1 Avian Influenza's Flight to Cattle, and Beyond
Diabetes and the Enigma of Biologic Age
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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
Science Creep is a Menace
Great Women in Science: Emmy Noether, Greatest Female Mathematician
What I'm Reading (Apr. 18)
Every Picture Tells a Story: Birth Control (Male Edition)
What I'm Reading (Apr. 11)
Viruses Are Nature's Perfect Life Form. And They're Not Even Alive.
What I'm Reading (Apr. 4)
The Solar Eclipse: Risks of Driving – Before, During and After
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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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