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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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Coming to a Drug Store Near You: mRNA Flu Vaccines?
3 Drugs You Can Buy Online—If You're Out of Your Mind
Is Police Contact or Crime Associated with Preterm Births?
What I'm Reading (Dec. 9)
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Every Picture Tells a Story: Placebo Effect
Dear Clueless Media: S. Africa Deserves Praise, Not Blame
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The Genetic Connection Between Sepsis and Sleeping Sickness
Should Judges Tell Doctors How to Practice Medicine?
Every Picture Tells a Story: The Global Food Supply
Fried Chicken and Dementia. Will the Nonsense Ever End?
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Chemicals & Chemistry
3 Drugs You Can Buy Online—If You're Out of Your Mind
The Environmental Working Group Wishes You An Unhappy Thanksgiving
Pfizer's COVID Drug Works Wonders. Here's How it Works.
Correlation is Not Causation
Let's Celebrate National Ether Day! Some History and (Shudder) Chemistry
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Food & Nutrition
EWG's Hyperbole Problem: Meat Isn't Exacerbating a 'Climate Catastrophe'
Every Picture Tells a Story: The Global Food Supply
Fried Chicken and Dementia. Will the Nonsense Ever End?
Can You Be 'Addicted' To Food? Probably Not.
Dementia and Diet: Avoid These 5 Foods to Stay 'Focused and Sharp'?
GMO Grapes: Scientists Can Make Them, But You Can't Buy Them (Yet)
The Cost of GMO Bans: Higher Food Prices and Unnecessary Suffering
Don’t Let Gluten-Free Mean Nutrient Deficient
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Biomedicine & Biotech
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?
Empiric Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Therapy is Here to Stay
Health Ranger Chronicles: Why Vaccination Is Better Than Catching COVID
Is The New York Times Finally ‘Learning To Love GMOS’?
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
Every Picture Tells a Story: Placebo Effect
How Does Pfizer's Pavloxid Compare With Ivermectin?
Mefentanyl: Fentanyl's Evil Cousin
Who Profits From Insulin?
Remdesivir, Get Out of the Way: Pfizer's Antiviral Shines
'Evil' Merck Gives Up Molupiravir Patent for Poor Countries
Roche's COVID Pill Disappoints. Is It Doomed?
Europe, Antibacterials, Pull Incentives and Access
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Policy & Ethics
Dismissing Anti-GMO Groups as COVID Conspiracists is a Dangerous Mistake
Should Judges Tell Doctors How to Practice Medicine?
It's the Fentanyl Epidemic, Stupid
Pull Incentives for AMR: Where is Biden?
The End is Near: Repent or Pull the Plug, and Other Strange 'Bioethical' Suggestions
Taxing Sugary Beverages
Taking Interest in Conflicted Interests
When the Law Catches Up to the Science on Opioid Litigation
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Harm Reduction
Is Police Contact or Crime Associated with Preterm Births?
Every Picture Tells a Story: What to Do About Electric Car Batteries?
Does Vaping Cause Bone Damage? Yes and No, a Confusing Study Claims
Protecting Our Children From Lead
Selling Snake Oil
Vaping and Stroke Risk: New Study Hypes the Wrong Conclusion
H2O: What You Need to Know
Herd Immunity and Disgust
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Disease
The Genetic Connection Between Sepsis and Sleeping Sickness
Every Picture Tells a Story: Smoking vs. Vaping
COVID-19: October Surprises?
Snake Bites, Camels and Cold-Chain Logistics
Can You Hear Me Now?
No, I Don't Want to Hear About Your Bent Penis While Dining
COVID-19 and Vaccinations: Are We There Yet?
How Do Statins Protect Us?
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Mental Health & Society
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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'Make Me a Fragrance That Smells Like Love'
New Parent? 3 Things You Should Know About Internet Baby Advice
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Family Feud: Here's How I Protect My Newborn From His Anti-Vaxx Relatives
Worse Baby Advice: More Science-Free Tips I Encountered On The Way To Parenthood
Bad Baby Advice: Science-Free Suggestions I Encountered On The Way To Parenthood
Our Health Inheritance
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