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Project Censored’s annual list of most censored news stories shows one pattern dominating all others.

Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories — like Watergate before the 1972 election — that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense reflective of what a functioning democracy should be, censorship defined as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting, or self-censorship — that prevents the public from fully kno...

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Local toxicologist Michael Dourson says a colleagues story about the history and importance of understanding how toxins impact our lives.

The Star Tribune's Christopher Vondracek and Liz Flores have been traveling to local communities, and talking to workers, impacted by child labor allegations.

Fears that hog fat caused digestive problems led to the introduction in 1911 of Crisco, which hyped the fact that it contained no animal products at all.

This year’s Top 10 underreported stories

Someone paid to deny how the energy industry misrepresented the ruinous impact of burning fossil fuels is not credible either.

I learned over the weekend that a historic figure in science-based medicine has died. If you know anything about the history of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), you will know this woman's name, Frances O. Kelsey, MD, PhD. It turns out that Dr. Kelsey died on Friday at the age of 101. Somehow I missed the news on Friday, but once the story showed up in my news feeds over the weekend, I knew I had to make her today's topic.