Harm Reduction

The researchers identified 1605 journals with an impact factor greater than 2. An impact factor is an advertising metric, too – it tells you how often articles have been cited from a specific journal [1].

Inexperienced journalists commonly make a mistake known as “burying the lede,” or hiding the most crucial aspects of a story underneath lots of distracting and l

Writer’s confession: First, this was written before the “Muskification” of Twitter, but I doubt he will change the concerns I and others are raising. Second, I wish these were my original thoughts, but they are not.

These were the women who painted watch dials beginning in 1916 with the “miracle” chemical – luminescent radium. The magic medium caused them to glow in the dark, the dust clinging to their clothes and hair.

One of our society’s great challenges is understanding and determining what is fact, what is hype, and what is simply not true.

When I first told my doctor that I took up vaping as a smoking-cessation tool in 2012, I expected a finger-wagging lecture about the dangers of nicotine. But that's not the response I got.

Smoking

The work is based upon a sophisticated mechanist model considering the risk of transmission between two individuals. One is infected and is acting as an asymptomatic transmitter, by far and away, the most likely current scenario.

Regulation as a solution?

      Let’s begin with a simple chart, comparing our expectations to our outcomes, with two choices, good or bad.