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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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Let’s Talk About - Burn Pits
Pulling Back the Curtain on EPA’s PFAS Health Advisories  
Podcast: Salt Ain't So Bad After All? Diagnosing SIDS Before It...
Activist Groups Claim Pesticides on Food Are Harmful. FDA Says...
What Makes Omicron Special? Centaurus Gives Us a Clue
Organic Farming is Not Monolithic
Asbestos Causes Cancer? Only if You Can Prove It – and That’s Getting...
ACSH Explains: Public Health Emergencies
COVID-19 Deaths Follow Infections, But When?
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
The Rise of the Pathogens
'What About The Children?' The Ultimate Activist Red Herring

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Chemicals & Chemistry

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Pulling Back the Curtain on EPA’s PFAS Health Advisories  
'What About The Children?' The Ultimate Activist Red Herring
A Slice of Crazy: EWG Thinks Frozen Pizza May Cause Cancer
Podcast: Driving While Stoned; Spoiled College Students Against Safe Pesticides
Wealth: The Solution to Our Global 'Plastic Problem'
Does Fentanyl Penetrate Skin? A Long Overdue Dreaded Chemistry Lesson From Hell
EWG Says 'Forever Chemicals' Contaminate Seafood. They're Wrong.
Podcast: Artificial Sweeteners Polluting the Environment?
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Food & Nutrition

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Podcast: Salt Ain't So Bad After All? Diagnosing SIDS Before It's Too Late
Activist Groups Claim Pesticides on Food Are Harmful. FDA Says Otherwise.
Organic Farming is Not Monolithic
Bill Maher is Right About the Fat-Acceptance Movement
What Happened in Sri Lanka? ACSH Explains on The Lars Larson Show
'Regenerative' Farming: AOC's Overhyped Climate Change Solution
Radio Interview: ACSH Debunks Obesity Myths On 'America Out Loud'
Podcast: CRISPR Crops Boost Pesticide Use? No. Latest On COVID Vaccine Side Effects
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Biomedicine & Biotech

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What Makes Omicron Special? Centaurus Gives Us a Clue
Podcast: Paxlovid's Waning Efficacy? Epoch Times' Anti-Glyphosate Hysteria Debunked
Paxlovid Doesn't Prevent You From Catching COVID. Here's Why That's Good News.
Plant-Based Vaccines? Medicago's COVID Shot Leads the Way
Are COVID Vaccines Responsible for the Variants?
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
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Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

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The Truth (Or Lack Thereof) About Melatonin
Medical and Pharmacokinetic Formulas Based on Gender-Specific Pooled Cohort Data
China Claims an AIDS Drug Will Beat Covid. Too Good to Be True?
Drs. Bloom and Lev Agree (and Disagree) About the Opioid Crisis: Podcast Ep. #82 of the 'High Truths' Series
Why Paxlovid is Far More Effective Than Media Coverage, and Some Skeptics, Suggest
FDA Says Pharmacists Can Prescribe Paxlovid. ACSH Got There Long Ago
Paxlovid Flops in Healthy People. Or Did It?
What is ‘Paxlovid Rebound,’ and Should It Concern Us?
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Policy & Ethics

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Asbestos Causes Cancer? Only if You Can Prove It – and That’s Getting Harder
ACSH Explains: Public Health Emergencies
Policymakers Are Stuck in a State of Denial about the True Cause of the Overdose Crisis
New Study Obliterates PROP's Absurd Position on Further Reducing Opioid Prescriptions
'Trusted' Sources Spread Anti-Science Nonsense, Too
Capture the Regulator, 2022 Edition
Faulty Risk Assessment Has Real-Life Consequences
Fox News Proffers Quit-Vaping Tips — and Lots of Pseudoscience
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Harm Reduction

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Let’s Talk About - Burn Pits
Robots, and Our Physical and Mental Health
The Practice of Pharmacy and Medicine Require a Binary Biological Sex Specification
'We Are Family' (or at Least, Social Creatures)
Often Wrong, Never in Doubt
Whatever Happened to 'Duck and Cover'?
Cannabis Concerns for Kids 
One Toke Over the Median: Driving Stoned
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Disease

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COVID-19 Deaths Follow Infections, But When?
The Rise of the Pathogens
Renaming Monkeypox
Podcast: Environmentalism Gone Wild; Looking Back At The Ivermectin Debate
Mortality and Long-Term Air Pollution: The Differential Equation
Metallurgical Irony: Tin Foil Hats Want You to Avoid Using Aluminum
After Biden’s COVID-19 Infections, Here’s What Regulators Should Do to Limit Paxlovid Rebound
Ocular Melanoma
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Mental Health & Society

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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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Other Science News

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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
What I'm Reading (Aug. 11)
What I'm Reading (July 28)
Every Picture Tells a Story: Coal
What I'm Reading (July 21)
What I'm Reading (July 14)
Finding Your Next Glass of Water
What I'm Reading (July 7)
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Parents & Kids

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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'
New Parent? 3 Things You Should Know About Internet Baby Advice
Heavy-Metal 'Tainted' Baby Food? Congressional Report Omits Important Science
Family Feud: Here's How I Protect My Newborn From His Anti-Vaxx Relatives
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What Makes Omicron Special? Centaurus Gives Us a Clue
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COVID-19 Deaths Follow Infections, But When?
Bill Maher is Right About the Fat-Acceptance Movement

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Podcast: Salt Ain't So Bad After All? Diagnosing SIDS Before It's Too Late
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A Conversation Between ACSH and Great.com
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ACSH In The Media

ACSH in the Media: Stay-at-Home Edition
ACSH in the Media: Coronavirus Edition
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