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For those who follow my articles, you will know I am concerned about how reputations can tarnish one’s accomplishments, especially for those where the moral ground has shifted – say the Founding Fathers.

Looking back over the year, several pieces especially resonated with me.

5. Susan Goldhaber returns with an article on science in the courtroom, specifically that perennial toxic bad boy, glyphosate. There is a great deal of science, epidemiology, and statistics to understand why glyphosate is or is not a carcinogen.

If you have the opportunity to read early scientific papers, and in this case, you need only go back to the 50s, they had a more conversational tone, for the pronoun conscious, more I or we than a silent absence of any pronoun at all.

10. Dr. Bloom bookends our top 10. Cannabis, increasingly the drug we turn to for recreational and medicinal needs, contains two compounds with antiviral activity, CBGA and CBDA. Could taking a few tokes ward off COVID?

In no particular order are articles from the past year with special meaning.

The first, Pulling Back the Curtain on EPA’s Health Advisories, is on a subject that I have been more or less obsessed with o

If you need proof that men are like little boys, you need only consider the work in Scandinavia, where they found painting a small fly on the inside of the urinal dramatically improves men’s aim and reduces urine around urinals.

     

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