Articles by Susan Gross

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Why Pregnant Women Should Love Blood Tests

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Psych Tests Where You ‘Answer Without Thinking’ Promote Politically Correct Answers, Not Honest Ones

A new paper finds that instead of leading to more honest replies, presumably because people don't think about the response, time pressure questions actually increase the likelihood of socially…

Wealthier Minorities Face More Discrimination And It's Being Blamed For Worse Health

Rich people are more likely to shop at Whole Foods, buy supplements, vote for a particular political party and...racially discriminate against minorities? That last part is according to a new…

Forget Political Posturing, It's Hard To Warn People About Dangers Like Floods

Flash floods like the one that swept down the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4, 2025, can be highly unpredictable. While there are sophisticated flood prediction models and different types of…

Claim: 30,000 Lives Could Be Saved By Making The World's Cleanest Air Even Cleaner - But The Data Don't Show It

With air pollution a distant memory outside some pockets in the United States (or during wildfires), the U.S. EPA oddly embraced one paper, which they had not seen any data for(1), claiming that…