There are so many important issues these days that I'd love to be writing about, but I have to restrain myself and persist in my extended break to focus on a backlog of other priorities, so I'll just have to satisfy that itch for now by quickly sharing some of the most important information that's been coming my way this past week.
Water Fluoridation
EPA Will Expeditiously Review New Science on Fluoride in Drinking Water — Environmental Protection Agency
RFK Jr. Says He'll Urge CDC to End Fluoride Guidance in US Drinking Water — Newsweek
Utah bans fluoride in public drinking water, a first in the US — AP
Antidepressant Drugs & Violence
Researchers Agree with Secretary Kennedy's Call to Study Antidepressant Links to Violence — The DisInformation Chronicle
RFK Jr attacked for his stance on psychotropic meds — Maryanne Demasi
Health Freedom Victory!
Idaho Leads the Nation with Landmark Medical Freedom Legislation — Health Freedom Defense Fund
CDC Subagency on Vax Injuries
‘Long-overdue Crack in the Dam’: RFK Jr. to Create CDC Sub-agency Focused on Vaccine Injuries — Children’s Health Defense
Texas Measles Outbreak
Doctors appear to be mistreating unvaccinated children with measles, killing them by medical error, and then blaming the deaths on the virus. Outstanding investigative reporting by CHD! Bravo!
Texas Reports 8-Year-Old Died of ‘Measles Pulmonary Failure,’ CHD Requests Medical Records — Children’s Health Defense
8-Year-Old in West Texas Died From Hospital-acquired Pneumonia, Medical Records Show — Children’s Health Defense
The Vaccine-Autism Hypothesis
The Real Story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield and MMR — Mary Holland, JD (2018)
The Scientific Record: Examining Some of the Claims and Counterclaims in the MMR Saga — Jacob M. Puliyel, Preprints.org (2023)
Evidence Showing Childhood Vaccinations Are Causing Autism and Other Intellectual Disabilities — Nina Bjelogric, International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research
Negative Flu Shot Effectiveness
Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season — Nabin K. Shrestha, et al., medRxiv (researchers from Cleveland Clinic)
COVID-19 Vaccines
SARS-CoV-2 spike peptide analysis reveals a highly conserved region that elicits potentially pathogenic autoantibodies: implications to pan-coronavirus vaccine development — Maryilyn Diaza et al., Frontiers in Imunology
Expression of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in cerebral Arteries: Implications for hemorrhagic stroke Post-mRNA vaccination — Nakao Ota et al., Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
