{"id":5786,"date":"2024-01-10T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2024-08-04T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T20:00:57","slug":"dr-fauci-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"Dr Fauci and covid 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"497\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-836\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-22.png 497w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-22-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"chd-defender-article__breadcrumb chd-defender-article__breadcrumb-date\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(110, 110, 110); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.6;\">May 31, 2024<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"chd-defender-article__breadcrumb chd-defender-article__breadcrumb-sep\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(110, 110, 110); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.6;\">\u203a<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse;\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"chd-defender-article__breadcrumb\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(110, 110, 110); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.6;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(110, 110, 110);\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/censorship-surveillance\/\">Censorship\/Surveillance<\/a><\/span><div class=\"chd-defender-article__header\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><h3 class=\"chd-defender-article__primary-category\" style=\"margin: 15px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 1.375; color: rgb(0, 128, 163); font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1.6px; text-transform: uppercase;\">CENSORSHIP\/SURVEILLANCE<\/h3><h1 class=\"chd-defender-article__title\" style=\"font-size: 28px; margin: 5px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.24px;\">After Grilling an NIH Scientist Over COVID Emails, Congress Turns to Anthony Fauci + More<\/h1><div class=\"chd-defender-article__excerpt\" style=\"margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.375; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-style: italic;\">The Defender\u2019s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments\u2019 abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. The views expressed in the excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__authors\" style=\"margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;\"><span class=\"chd-defender-article__authors-by\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(16, 16, 16);\">by<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"chd-defender-article__authors-name\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 128, 163); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/the-defender-staff\/\">The Defender Staff<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__date\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 22px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;\"><span class=\"chd-defender-article__date-published\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">MAY 31, 2024<\/span><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__featured-image noprint\" style=\"margin: 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"417\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature-800x417.jpg 800w, https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature-1536x801.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature-196x102.jpg 196w, https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature-600x313.jpg 600w, https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/big_brother_newswatch_feature.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" class=\"attachment-featured-large size-featured-large wp-post-image\" style=\"border-width: 1px; 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vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;\"><div class=\"chd-defender-article__meta-button chd-defender-article__meta-button--comments\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; display: inline-block; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;\">\u00a0<a class=\"disqus-count\" data-disqus-identifier=\"303673\" style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/bb-nih-scientist-covid-emails-congress-anthony-fauci\/?utm_source=luminate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20240531#comments\">1<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"disqus-count-label\" style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; clip: auto; height: auto; overflow: visible; position: static; text-wrap: wrap; width: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/bb-nih-scientist-covid-emails-congress-anthony-fauci\/?utm_source=luminate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20240531#comments\">COMMENTS<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__body\" style=\"margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(28, 28, 28); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">After Grilling an NIH Scientist Over COVID Emails, Congress Turns to Anthony Fauci<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179);\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/nih-scientist-covid-emails-congress-anthony-fauci-hearing\/\">KFF Health News reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Former\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/nih-funded-scientists-develop-mrna-bird-flu-vaccine\/\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>\u00a0official Anthony\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/defender-in-depth-podcast-paul-thacker-anthony-fauci-covid-origins\/\">Fauci<\/a>\u00a0has faced many hostile questions from members of Congress, but when he appears before a House panel on Monday, he\u2019ll have something new to answer for: a trove of\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SSCP-Staff-Memo_Morens-5.22.pdf\">incendiary emails<\/a>\u00a0written by one of his closest advisers.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">In the emails, David Morens, a career federal scientist now on administrative leave, described deleting messages and using a personal email account to evade disclosure of correspondence under the Freedom of Information Act. \u201cI learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia\u2019d but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe,\u201d Morens wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email. \u201cPlus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The pressure is on as Fauci himself prepares to appear on June 3 before a House subcommittee exploring the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/covid-wuhan-lab-leak-senate-report\/\">origins<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\">COVID-19<\/a>. The NIH, a $49 billion agency that is the foremost source of funding in the world for biomedical research, finds itself under unusual bipartisan scrutiny. The subcommittee has demanded more outside oversight of NIH and its 50,000 grants and raised the idea of term limits for officials like Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an NIH component, from 1984 to 2022.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">In a May 28\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024.05.28-BRW-Letter-to-NIH-Re.-FOIA_Redacted.pdf\">letter to NIH Director<\/a>\u00a0Monica Bertagnolli, the subcommittee\u2019s chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), said the evidence \u201csuggests a conspiracy at the highest levels of NIH and NIAID to avoid public transparency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">The Era of ChatGPT-Powered Propaganda Is Upon Us<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chatgpt-powered-propaganda-russia-china-iran-2024-5\">Insider reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">China, Iran, Russia, and others are using OpenAI tools for covert influence operations, according to the company.\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/disrupting-deceptive-uses-of-AI-by-covert-influence-operations\/\">In a blog post on Thursday<\/a>, OpenAI said it\u2019s been quick to react, disrupting five operations in the last three months that had tried to manipulate public opinion and sway political outcomes through deception.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The operations OpenAI shut down harnessed\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/defender-in-depth-rob-verkerk-alliance-for-natural-health-free-speech-misinformation\/\">AI<\/a>\u00a0to generate comments and articles in different languages, make up names and bios for fake\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/supreme-court-government-social-media-censorship-case\/\">social media<\/a>\u00a0accounts, debug code, and more.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">OpenAI continues to flex its commitment to safety and transparency, but not everyone is buying it. Some have argued, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself, that highly advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Stuart Russell, a leading AI researcher and a pioneer of the technology,\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sam-altman-openai-glory-days-ending-problems-chatgpt-2024-5\">previously told Business Insider<\/a>\u00a0that he thinks Altman is building out the technology before figuring out how to make it safe \u2014 and called that \u201ccompletely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">Momentum Grows for Total Ban on Phones in Schools<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/new-york-kathy-hochul-smartphone-school-ban-1906475\">Newsweek reported<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/new-york\">New York<\/a>\u00a0Governor Kathy Hochul is planning to introduce a bill banning\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/smartphones\">smartphones<\/a>\u00a0in schools, the latest high-profile effort in a national push to improve online safety,\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/killingly-connecticut-school-board-mental-health-clinic\/\">mental health<\/a>\u00a0and academic performance for children. \u201cI have seen these addictive algorithms pull in young people, making them prisoners in a space where they are cut off from human connection, social interaction, and normal classroom activity,\u201d Hochul told the Guardian newspaper in an interview Thursday.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The governor plans to officially bring up the bill later this year, aiming for it to be addressed in New York\u2019s next legislative session starting in January. If passed, students would be permitted only to carry simple \u201cflip phones\u201d capable of texting but without internet access.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The movement to regulate children\u2019s online activity \u2014 at least while they\u2019re in school \u2014 is gaining traction nationwide. New York\u2019s proposed bill, part of a broader campaign by the governor to tackle mental health, includes two other bills aimed at safeguarding children\u2019s privacy online and limiting their access to certain social network features.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">States like\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/florida\">Florida<\/a>\u00a0have passed strict rules banning student cellphone use and blocking\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/supreme-court-government-social-media-censorship-case\/\">social media<\/a>\u00a0during class, with some districts extending the ban to the entire school day. Other states, including Minnesota, Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, South Carolina and Nevada, have proposed similar bills. Maryland and Vermont passed their \u201cKids Code\u201d bills earlier this year despite opposition from social media companies.<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">New Mexico Judge Grants Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Request to Be Dropped From Child Safety Lawsuit<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-new-mexico-facebook-zuckerberg-children-b3d194055cbeecae4836558fa0e20430\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Associated Press reported<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">A New Mexico judge on Thursday granted Mark\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/mark-zuckerberg-meta-threads-app-data-censorship\/\">Zuckerberg<\/a>\u2019s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/rfk-jr-super-pac-meta-censorship-lawsuit\/\">company<\/a>\u00a0has failed to protect young users on its\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/supreme-court-government-social-media-censorship-case\/\">social media<\/a>\u00a0platforms from sexual exploitation.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The case is one of many filed by states, school districts and parents against Meta and its platforms over concerns about child exploitation. Beyond courtrooms around the U.S., the issue has been a topic of\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/meta-tiktok-snap-discord-zuckerberg-testify-senate-00754a6bea92aaad62585ed55f219932\">congressional hearings<\/a>\u00a0as lawmakers and parents are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people\u2019s lives.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">In New Mexico, Attorney General Ra\u00fal Torrez\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/facebook-instagram-mark-zuckerberg-child-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-7257a60d768f59ce16a4d925b7ebfa40\">sued Meta and Zuckerberg late last year<\/a>\u00a0following an undercover online investigation.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">While granting Zuckerberg\u2019s request, Judge Bryan Biedscheid dismissed Meta\u2019s motion seeking to dismiss the state\u2019s claims, marking what Torrez described as a crucial step for the case to proceed against the social media giant.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">As for Zuckerberg, Biedscheid said he wasn\u2019t persuaded by the state\u2019s arguments that the executive should remain a party to the New Mexico lawsuit, but he noted that could change depending on what evidence is presented as the case against Meta proceeds.<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">Mastercard\u2019s Controversial Digital ID Rollout in Africa<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/mastercards-controversial-digital-id-rollout-in-africa\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Reclaim the Net reported<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The purpose of Community Pass is to enable a\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/ukraine-government-converting-digital-id-system-wartime-tool\/\">digital<\/a>\u00a0ID and wallet that\u2019s contained in a \u201csmart card.\u201d Launched four years ago, the program \u2014 which Mastercard says, in addition to being based on digital ID, is interoperable, and works offline \u2014 targets \u201cunderserved communities\u201d and currently has 3.5 million users, with plans of growing that number to 30 million by 2027.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">According to a map on Mastercard\u2019s site, this program is now being either piloted or has been rolled out in India, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Mauritania, while the latest announcement is the partnership with the African Development Bank Group in an initiative dubbed, Mobilizing Access to the Digital Economy (MADE).<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The plan is to, over ten years, make sure 100 million people and businesses in Africa are included in digital ID programs and thus allow access to government and \u201chumanitarian\u201d services.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Given how controversial digital ID schemes are, and how much pushback they encounter in developed countries, it\u2019s hard to shake off the impression that such initiatives are pushed so aggressively in economically disadvantaged areas and communities precisely because little opposition is expected.<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">Former TIAA Employees Sue Over Termination and Denial of Religious Exemption to COVID Vaccine Mandates<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/former-tiaa-employees-sue-over-termination-and-denial-of-religious-exemption-to-covid-vaccine-mandates\/\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Carolina Journal reported<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Former employees of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America are suing their former employer over being terminated from their jobs after failing to comply with the company\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\">COVID<\/a>-era vaccine\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/vaccine-mandates-an-erosion-of-civil-rights-chd-e-book-available-now\/\">mandate<\/a>.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The plaintiffs have filed suit against\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiaa.org\/public\">TIAA<\/a>, a financial retirement service company with locations in North Carolina, alleging violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act among other complaints.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Plaintiff Noelle Sproul worked as an attorney in TIAA\u2019s legal department for several years before being terminated on May 2, 2022. She was also appointed as a managing director in the legal department of Nuveen LLC, a subsidiary of TIAA.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">TIAA issued a mandate in 2021 for all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. In the months subsequent to the mandate, Sproul submitted\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/nyc-lawsuit-religious-exemptions-covid-vaccine\/\">exemptions<\/a>\u00a0for both medical disability and for an exemption on the grounds of religious accommodation pursuant to TIAA policy. Appeals of the exemptions were later denied.<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">Congress\u2019s Online Child Safety Bill, Explained<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/352251\/kosa-congress-online-child-safety-bill-explained\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Vox reported<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">It\u2019s tough to feel an urgency about something that progresses in slow motion. Bear with me, though, because it is time,\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2023\/2\/15\/23599879\/congress-children-safety-online-big-tech\">once again<\/a>, to care about the Kids\u2019 Online Safety Act, otherwise known as\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/1409\/text\">KOSA<\/a>, a federal bill that was designed to protect children from online harms.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">\u200b\u200bThe bill has been hanging around in Congress in some form since 2022 when Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/02\/16\/kids-online-safety-act-unveiled-blackburn-blumenthal\/\">introduced their bipartisan response<\/a>\u00a0to a series of congressional hearings and investigations into online child safety. While KOSA\u2019s specific provisions have changed in the years since the central goal of the legislation remains the same: legislators want to make platforms more responsible for the well-being of kids who use their services and provide tools to parents so that they can manage how younger people use the internet.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The dangers posed to minors by the internet have long been simultaneously a\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/topics\/social-media-internet\/health-advisory-adolescent-social-media-use\">real threat<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/02\/01\/online-safety-hearing-opposition\/\">moral panic<\/a>. It\u2019s a political issue that has bipartisan support, while also appearing to be extremely difficult to govern without infringing on First Amendment protections.<\/p><h2 style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; font-family: merriweather, Merriweather, serif; line-height: 33.28px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.6rem;\">Nvidia Set to Overtake Apple as World\u2019s Second-Most Valuable Company<\/h2><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/nvidia-set-overtake-apple-worlds-second-most-valuable-company-2024-05-31\/\"><strong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Reuters reported<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">Nvidia\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/NVDA.O\">(NVDA.O)<\/a>\u00a0could soon surpass\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/apple-vision-pro-mixed-reality-kids\/\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0to become the world\u2019s second-most valuable company, as the kingmaker behind the\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/defender-in-depth-rob-verkerk-alliance-for-natural-health-free-speech-misinformation\/\">AI<\/a>\u00a0revolution takes on the iPhone maker that has ruled Wall Street for decades.<\/p><p style=\"margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">The reliance of virtually all artificial intelligence applications such as OpenAI\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(3, 139, 179); font-weight: 700;\" href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/chatgpt-misdiagnose-child-health-conditions\/\">ChatGPT<\/a>\u00a0on Nvidia\u2019s high-end chips has helped the stock nearly triple in value over the past year to $2.72 trillion.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"chd-defender-article__footer\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open-sans, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><div class=\"chd-defender-article__footer-authors\" style=\"margin: 20px 0px 0px; 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outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(28, 28, 28);\">The Defender is the news and views website for Children&#8217;s Health Defense. Our mission is to end corruption to save democracy. Our content exposes the corporations, elected officials, government agencies and individuals wh<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>04\/29\/24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/who\">BIG PHARMA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u203a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender-news\">NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some States in the US Move to Oppose WHO\u2019s \u2018Pandemic Treaty,\u2019 Assert States\u2019 Rights<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Utah and Florida passed laws intended to prevent the WHO from overriding states\u2019 authority on matters of public health policy, and Louisiana and Oklahoma have legislation set to take effect soon pending final votes. Several other states are considering similar bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"643\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-3.png 679w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-3-300x284.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/michael-nevradakis-ph-d\/\">Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/states-oppose-who-pandemic-treaty\/?utm_source=luminate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20240429#comments\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/states-oppose-who-pandemic-treaty\/#disqus_thread\">10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link copied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/states-oppose-who-pandemic-treaty-feature-800x417.jpg\" alt=\"world health organization on laptop with thumbs down on top\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Miss a day, miss a lot.<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/sign-up\/?utm_source=top_of_article&amp;utm_medium=the_defender&amp;utm_campaign=sign_ups\">Subscribe to The Defender&#8217;s Top News of the Day<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>It&#8217;s free.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two states have passed laws \u2014 and two states have bills pending \u2014 intended to prevent the World Health Organization (WHO) from overriding states\u2019 authority on matters of public health policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2024\/bills\/static\/SB0057.html\">Utah<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2023\/252\/\">Florida<\/a>&nbsp;passed laws and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/who-power-grab-pandemic-treaty-support-letter\/\">Louisiana<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/merylnass.substack.com\/p\/oklahoma-house-passes-bill-denying\">Oklahoma<\/a>&nbsp;have legislation set to take effect soon pending final votes. Several other states are considering similar bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WHO member states will convene next month at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/about\/accountability\/governance\/world-health-assembly\">World Health Assembly<\/a>&nbsp;in Geneva, Switzerland, to vote on two proposals \u2014 the so-called \u201cpandemic accord\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/who-pandemic-agreement-ihr-amendments-deceptive-language\/\">pandemic treaty<\/a>,\u201d and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) \u2014 that would give the WHO sweeping new pandemic powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden administration supports the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/who-international-health-regulations\/\">two WHO proposals<\/a>, but opposition is growing at the state level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proponents of the WHO\u2019s proposals say they are vital for preparing humanity against the \u201cnext pandemic,\u201d perhaps caused by a yet-unknown \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/wef-davos-future-pandemic-disease-x\/\">Disease X<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the bills passed by state legislatures reflect frequently voiced criticisms that the WHO\u2019s proposals imperil&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/who-reform-house-hearing-covid-pandemic\/\">national sovereignty<\/a>, medical and bodily sovereignty and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/world-health-assembly-personal-liberties-emergency-powers\/\">personal liberties<\/a>, and may lead to global vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"204\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5435\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Critics also argue the WHO proposals may open the door to global digital \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/who-eu-global-vaccine-passport-initiative\/\">health passports<\/a>\u201d and global censorship targeting alleged \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/who-behaviors-surveillance-social-media\/\">misinformation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such criticisms are behind state legislative initiatives to oppose the WHO, on the basis that states\u2019 rights are protected under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/constitution\/amendment-10\/\">10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution<\/a>. Under the 10th Amendment, all powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states. Such powers, critics say, include public health policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Holland, president of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/\">Children\u2019s Health Defense<\/a>&nbsp;(CHD), told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/\">The Defender<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is encouraging to see states like Louisiana, Oklahoma and Utah pass resolutions to clarify that the WHO has no power to determine health policy in their states. Historically, health has been the purview of state and local government, not the U.S. federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"579\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4034\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19.png 678w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-19-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no legitimate constitutional basis for the federal government to outsource health decision-making on pandemics to an international body. As state legislatures become aware of the WHO\u2019s agenda, they are pushing back to assert their autonomy \u2014 and this is welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/meryl-nass-md\/\">Dr. Meryl Nass<\/a>, founder of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doortofreedom.org\/\">Door to Freedom<\/a>, told The Defender that, contrary to arguments that the drafters of the constitution could not foresee future public health needs,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/health.mil\/News\/Articles\/2021\/08\/16\/Gen-George-Washington-Ordered-Smallpox-Inoculations-for-All-Troops\">vaccines<\/a>, doctors and medicine were all in existence at the time the 10th Amendment was written. They were \u201cdeliberately left out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has implications for the federal government\u2019s efforts in support of the WHO\u2019s proposals, according to Nass. \u201cThe government doesn\u2019t have the authority to give the WHO powers for which it lacks authority,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennessee state Rep. Bud Hulsey (R-Sullivan County) told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/states-move-to-reject-who-treaty-federal-health-diktats-5635764\">The Epoch Times<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re almost to a place in this country that the federal government has trampled on the sovereignty of states for so long that in peoples\u2019 minds, they have no options.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like whatever the federal government says is the supreme law of the land, and it\u2019s not. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/million-match-bg-desktop.jpg\" alt=\"A child and adult holding hands\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/million-match-title-desktop.png\" alt=\"Million Dollar Match The Battle For The Truth\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/demanding-justice-for-vaccine-injured-children-like-yates\/\">MAKE A DONATION<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Utah, Florida laws passed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Jan. 31, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2024\/bills\/static\/SB0057.html\">Senate Bill 57<\/a>, the \u201cUtah Constitutional Sovereignty Act,\u201d into law. It does not mention the WHO, but prohibits \u201cenforcement of a federal directive within the state by government officers if the Legislature determines the federal directive violates the principles of state sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 2023, Florida passed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2023\/252\/\">Senate Bill 252<\/a>&nbsp;(SB 252), a bill for \u201cProtection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices.\u201d Among other clauses, it prohibits businesses and public entities from requiring proof of vaccination or prophylaxis for the purposes of employment, receipt of services, or gaining entry to such entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Section 3 of SB 252:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA governmental entity as defined \u2026 or an educational institution \u2026 may not adopt, implement, or enforce an international health organization\u2019s public health policies or guidelines unless authorized to do so under state law, rule, or executive order issued by the Governor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nass told The Defender that Florida\u2019s legislation offers a back door through which WHO the state can implement WHO policies because it allows a state law, rule or executive order by the governor to override the bill. According to Nass, efforts to strengthen the bill have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SB 252 was one of four bills Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed in May 2023 in support of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2023\/05\/11\/governor-ron-desantis-signs-the-strongest-legislation-in-the-nation-for-medical-freedom\/\">medical freedom<\/a>. The other bills were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2023\/1387\/BillText\/er\/PDF\">House Bill 1387<\/a>, banning&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/cdc-robert-redfield-covid-origins\/\">gain-of-function research<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2023\/1580\/BillText\/er\/PDF\">Senate Bill 1580<\/a>, protecting physicians\u2019 freedom of speech and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2023\/238\/BillText\/er\/PDF\">Senate Bill 238<\/a>, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of people\u2019s medical choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"588\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-22.png 717w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-22-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\">\u201cThe Wuhan Cover-Up\u201d by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\">ORDER NOW<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/?itm_term=take-action\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Louisiana, Oklahoma also push back against the WHO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LA-Senate-2024-03-26-171002.pdf\">Louisiana Senate<\/a>&nbsp;on March 26 voted unanimously to pass&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/LA\/text\/SB133\/id\/2967724\/Louisiana-2024-SB133-Engrossed.pdf\">Senate Law No. 133<\/a>, barring the WHO, United Nations (U.N.) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/wef-artificial-intelligence-digital-id-vaccines\/\">World Economic Forum<\/a>&nbsp;from wielding influence over the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the legislation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy, or mandate of any kind of the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall be enforced or implemented by the state of Louisiana or any agency, department, board, commission, political subdivision, governmental entity of the state, parish, municipality, or any other political entity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill is now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/LA\/bill\/SB133\/2024\">pending Louisiana House of Representatives approval<\/a>&nbsp;and if passed, is set to take effect Aug. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 24, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklegislature.gov\/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb426&amp;Session=2400\">Senate Bill 426<\/a>&nbsp;(SB 426), which states, \u201cThe World Health Organization, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum shall have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trackbill.com\/bill\/oklahoma-senate-bill-426-world-health-organization-prohibiting-enforcement-of-policies-required-or-recommended-by-the-world-health-organization-effective-date-emergency\/2548665\/\">no jurisdiction in the State of Oklahoma<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the bill:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"638\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Our-bio-field.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5769\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Our-bio-field.jpg 444w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Our-bio-field-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny mandates, recommendations, instructions, communications or guidance issued by the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the World Economic Forum shall not be used in this state as a basis for action, nor to direct, order or otherwise impose, contrary to the constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma any requirements whatsoever, including those for masks, vaccines or medical testing, or gather any public or private information about the state\u2019s citizens or residents, and shall have no force or effect in the State of Oklahoma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Door to Freedom, the bill was first introduced last year and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doortofreedom.org\/oklahoma-passes-legislation-against-the-who\/\">unanimously passed the Senate<\/a>. An amended version will return to the Senate for a new vote, and if passed, the law will take effect June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\">RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker\u2019s&nbsp;<em>New<\/em>&nbsp;Book: \u201cVax-Unvax\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\">ORDER NOW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legislative push continues in states where bills opposing the WHO failed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-23-623x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-23-623x1024.png 623w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-23-182x300.png 182w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-23-768x1263.png 768w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-23.png 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Legislative initiatives opposing the WHO in other states have so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Tennessee, lawmakers proposed three bills opposing the WHO, but \u201cnone of them made it over the finish line,\u201d said Bernadette Pajer of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tn.childrenshealthdefense.org\/\">CHD Tennessee Chapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany Tennessee legislators are concerned about the WHO and three of them filed resolutions to protect our sovereignty,\u201d Pajer said. \u201cOur legislature runs on a biennium, and this was the second year, so those three bills have died. But I do expect new ones will be filed next session.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed bills were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.tn.gov\/Bills\/113\/Bill\/HJR0820.pdf\">House Joint Resolution 820<\/a>&nbsp;(HJR 820), passed in the Tennessee House of Representatives. The bill called on the federal government to \u201cend taxpayer funding\u201d of the WHO and reject the WHO\u2019s two proposals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.tn.gov\/Bills\/113\/Bill\/HJR1359.pdf\">House Joint Resolution 1359<\/a>&nbsp;(HJR 1359) stalled in the Delayed Bills Committee. It proposed that \u201cneither the World Health Organization, United Nations, nor the World Economic Forum shall have any jurisdiction or power within the State of Tennessee.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.tn.gov\/Bills\/113\/Bill\/SJR1135.pdf\">Senate Joint Resolution 1135<\/a>&nbsp;(SJR 1135) opposed \u201cthe United States\u2019 participation in the World Health Organization (WHO)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/united-nations-approves-pandemic-declaration\/\">Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Accord<\/a>&nbsp;(PPPRA) and urges the Biden Administration to withdraw our nation from the PPPRA.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Miller, a registered lobbyist for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reformpharmanow.org\/\">Reform Pharma<\/a>, told The Defender she \u201csupported these resolutions, especially HJR 1359. She said the bill \u201cwent to a committee where the sponsor didn\u2019t think it would come out since a unanimous vote was needed and one of the three members was a Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennessee\u2019s HJR 820 came the closest to being enacted. According to Nass, this bill was \u201cflawed,\u201d as it \u201cdid not assert state sovereignty or the 10th Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Tennessee bill,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wapp.capitol.tn.gov\/apps\/BillInfo\/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB2795&amp;GA=113\">House Bill 2795 and Senate Bill 2775<\/a>, \u201cestablishes processes by which the general assembly [of the state of Tennessee] may nullify an unconstitutional federal statute, regulation, agency order, or executive order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Epoch Times, this would give Tennessee residents \u201cthe right to demand that state legislators vote on whether or not to enforce regulations or executive orders that violate citizens\u2019 rights under the federal or state constitutions.\u201d The bill is tabled for \u201csummer study\u201d in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 2023,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wapp.capitol.tn.gov\/apps\/BillInfo\/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1147&amp;GA=113\">Tennessee passed legislation<\/a>&nbsp;opposing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/bill-gates-net-zero-financial-scam-vandana-shiva\/\">net zero<\/a>\u201d proposals and the U.N.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 which have been connected to \u201cgreen\u201d policies and the implementation of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/gates-foundation-digital-id-newborns-kenya-surveillance\/\">digital ID for newborn babies<\/a>&nbsp;and for which the U.N. has set a target date of 2030 for implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Epoch Times, \u201cMaine state Rep. Heidi Sampson attempted to get a \u2018joint order\u2019 passed in support of personal autonomy and against compliance with the WHO agreements, but it garnered little interest in the Democrat supermajority legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Alabama, the Senate passed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alison.legislature.state.al.us\/files\/pdfdocs\/SearchableInstruments\/2024RS\/HJR113-int.pdf\">House Joint Resolution 113<\/a>&nbsp;opposing the WHO. The bill was reported out of committee but, according to Nass, it stalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doortofreedom.org\/state-legislation\/\">Other states<\/a>&nbsp;where similar legislation was proposed in the 2024 session or is pending include&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/search?ch=2&amp;d=2&amp;k=&amp;ln=634&amp;s=1031&amp;p=1\">Georgia<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/sessioninfo\/2024\/legislation\/S1287\/\">Idaho<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.iowa.gov\/legislation\/BillBook?ga=90&amp;ba=hf507\">Iowa<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.legislature.ky.gov\/record\/24rs\/hjr44.html\">Kentucky<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(jffv4o5ccwfphjdz13vph3wq))\/mileg.aspx?page=getObject&amp;objectName=2023-HB-4859\">Michigan<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/NH\/drafts\/HB1156\/2024\">New Hampshire<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\/bill-search\/2024\/AR29\">New Jersey<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scstatehouse.gov\/billsearch.php?billnumbers=868&amp;session=125&amp;summary=B&amp;PRINT=1\">South Carolina<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wyoleg.gov\/Legislation\/2024\/HB0091\">Wyoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\">Your support helps fund this work, and CHD\u2019s related advocacy, education and scientific research.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\">DONATE NOW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Supreme Court ruling may curtail federal government\u2019s powers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While opponents of the WHO\u2019s proposed \u201cpandemic agreement\u201d and IHR amendments point to the states\u2019 rights provision of the 10th Amendment, others argue that a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court decision in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/467\/837\/\">Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>&nbsp;allowed federal agencies to assert more authority to make laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tide may be turning, however. According to The Epoch Times, \u201cThe current Supreme Court has taken some steps to rein in the administrative state, including the landmark decision in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/20-1530_n758.pdf\">West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency<\/a>, ruling that federal agencies can\u2019t assume powers that Congress didn\u2019t explicitly give them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nass said that even in states where lawmakers have not yet proposed bills to oppose the WHO, citizens can take action, by contacting the office of their state governor, who can issue an executive order, or their attorney general, who can issue a legal opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/meryl-nass-door-to-freedom-ihr\/\">Door to Freedom<\/a>&nbsp;has also developed a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doortofreedom.org\/state-legislation\/\">model resolution<\/a>&nbsp;that state legislative bodies can use as the basis for their own legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for people to realize that if the federal government imposes something on the people, the people can go through their state\u2019s powers to overturn it,\u201d Nass said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01\/09\/24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u203a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender-news\">NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018I Don\u2019t Recall\u2019: Fauci Unable to Answer Key Questions in Pandemic Probe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed more than 100 times that he did not remember details about the pandemic response and origins during a House interview Monday regarding COVID-19 policies and funding decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/michael-nevradakis-ph-d\/\">Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/anthony-fauci-pandemic-house-interview\/?utm_source=luminate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20240109#comments\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/anthony-fauci-pandemic-house-interview\/#disqus_thread\">49<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link copied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/anthony-fauci-pandemic-house-interview-feature-800x417.jpg\" alt=\"anthony fauci pandemic house interview feature\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Miss a day, miss a lot.<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/sign-up\/?utm_source=top_of_article&amp;utm_medium=the_defender&amp;utm_campaign=sign_ups\">Subscribe to The Defender&#8217;s Top News of the Day<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>It&#8217;s free.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the first day of a two-day closed-door interview before the U.S. House of Representatives&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/subcommittee\/select-subcommittee-on-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic<\/a>&nbsp;Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), frequently evaded questions about gain-of-function research and the government\u2019s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/wenstrup-releases-statement-following-first-day-of-dr-faucis-testimony\/\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;following Monday\u2019s interview, said, \u201cDr. Fauci\u2019s testimony today uncovered drastic and systemic failures in America\u2019s public health systems\u201d and that Fauci \u201chad no idea what was happening under his own jurisdiction at NIAID.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4396265-fauci-sits-through-first-seven-hours-of-questioning-with-covid-select-subcommittee\/\">According to The Hill<\/a>, Fauci offered \u201chis expertise on preparing for potential outbreaks in the future.\u201d But&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2024\/jan\/8\/lawmakers-question-fauci-in-private-over-his-handl\/\">according to The Washington Times<\/a>, he \u201ccouldn\u2019t remember many details about his advocacy of lockdowns, his flip-flopping on mask mandates and his decision to allow government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/fauci-nih-covid-origins-leaked-messages\/\">funding of gain-of-function research<\/a>&nbsp;in China that might have led to the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci \u201cclaimed he \u2018did not recall\u2019 pertinent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\/\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;information or conversations more than 100 times,\u201d and \u201cprofusely defended his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4962333\/senator-paul-dr-fauci-clash-research-funding-wuhan-lab\">previous congressional testimony<\/a>&nbsp;where he stated the National Institutes of Health (NIH) did not fund gain-of-function&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/gerald-parker-gain-of-function-research-biosafety-house-hearing\/\">research in Wuhan<\/a>,\u201d according to the subcommittee statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci also \u201crepeatedly played semantics with the definition of gain-of-function in an attempt to avoid conceding that NIH funded potentially dangerous research in China,\u201d the subcommittee stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to Monday\u2019s testimony, Rutgers University molecular biologist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waksman.rutgers.edu\/ebright\/people\/dr-richard-h-ebright\">Richard Ebright, Ph.D.<\/a>, a frequent critic of gain-of-function research, told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/\">The Defender<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFauci repeatedly and flagrantly violated U.S. government policies implemented to protect the public from lab-generated pandemics. He lied \u2014 brazenly \u2014 to Congress about his policy violations in three Senate hearings in 2021-2022. He lied \u2014 brazenly \u2014 to Congress about his policy violations again yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigative journalist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/\">Paul D. Thacker<\/a>, who has documented attempts by Fauci and other government officials, federal agencies and leading scientists to cover up the U.S. government\u2019s role in funding gain-of-function research in China, told The Defender he was not surprised by Fauci\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/p\/anthony-fauci-lied-before-congress\">I documented over two years ago<\/a>, Anthony Fauci has lied about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. That\u2019s fine. People in Washington lie all the time,\u201d Thacker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut when he lied during a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-doj-investigation-covid\/\">congressional hearing<\/a>, wagging his finger at Senator [Rand] Paul \u2026 I knew immediately he had broken the law. His lies about this pandemic have been documented in multiple media outlets and I hope he is eventually prosecuted,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/law.illinois.edu\/faculty-research\/faculty-profiles\/francis-boyle\/\">Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D.<\/a>, professor of international law at the University of Illinois and a bioweapons expert who drafted the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/101st-congress\/senate-bill\/993\/text\">Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989<\/a>, told The Defender Fauci should be prosecuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFauci knew exactly what was going on at the Wuhan BSL4 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/training\/quicklearns\/biosafety\/\">biosafety level 4<\/a>] and the University of North Carolina BSL3 \u2014 he was paying for it,\u201d Boyle said. \u201cHe has repeatedly perjured himself in testimony before Congress. This is just more of the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyle said Wenstrup should follow Sen. Rand Paul\u2019s (R-Ky.) example and refer Fauci to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution for perjury. \u201cMaybe we will get some action there now that the Wuhan cover-up is unfolding, as detailed in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s book, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wuhan-Cover-Up-Officials-Conspired-Childrens\/dp\/1510773983\/ref=sr_1_1\">The Wuhan Cover-Up<\/a>,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seven-hour meeting was Fauci\u2019s first appearance in the House since retiring from public office in December 2022. He was accompanied by two of his attorneys and two government attorneys, according to The Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closed-door testimony was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/dr-anthony-fauci-to-appear-for-transcribed-interview-and-public-hearing\/\">first announced by Wenstrup<\/a>&nbsp;on Nov. 30, 2023. In the same announcement, Wenstrup revealed that Fauci will sit before the subcommittee as part of a public hearing later in 2024. That meeting has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his statement about Moday\u2019s interview, Wenstrup said it was \u201cconcerning that the face of our nation\u2019s response to the world\u2019s worst public health crisis \u2018does not recall\u2019 key details about COVID-19 origins and pandemic-era policies. Nearly 1.2 million Americans lost their lives to a potentially preventable pandemic,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\">\u201cThe Wuhan Cover-Up\u201d by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\">ORDER NOW<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fauci \u2018repeatedly and fragrantly violated\u2019 gain-of-function research definitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Washington Times, lawmakers prepared 200 pages of questions for Fauci. In remarks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/01\/08\/news\/dr-anthony-fauci-arrives-for-first-day-of-interview-with-house-covid-panel\/\">quoted by The New York Post<\/a>, Wenstrup said Fauci\u2019s testimony \u201cwill shed light on topics that no Committee member, nor news outlet has ever inquired about before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci took several breaks during the interview, but the meeting had a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4396265-fauci-sits-through-first-seven-hours-of-questioning-with-covid-select-subcommittee\/\">\u201crespectful\u201d and \u201ccooperative\u201d tone<\/a>. Fauci did not take questions from reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, despite the reported tone, Fauci was evasive on key issues, such as gain-of-function research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding Fauci\u2019s apparently poor recall,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4396265-fauci-sits-through-first-seven-hours-of-questioning-with-covid-select-subcommittee\/\">Wenstrup said<\/a>, \u201cThat just means that maybe we have to find the people that do recall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Jan. 4 op-ed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/01\/04\/opinion\/faucis-returning-to-congress-will-he-continue-his-covid-coverup\/\">published in The New York Post<\/a>, James Bovard, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty\/dp\/B0CP9VCNDH\">Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty<\/a>,\u201d wrote that \u201cThe subcommittee announced Fauci\u2019s \u2018honesty is non-negotiable.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut will his memory stage another boycott?\u201d Bovard asked, noting that when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/anthony-fauci-under-oath-social-media-censorship\/\">Fauci was deposed in 2022<\/a>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/supreme-court-ban-white-house-social-media-free-speech\/\">Missouri v. Biden lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;on government censorship of COVID-19 counternarratives, he answered \u201cI don\u2019t recall\u201d 174 times, \u201cincluding about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/bioweapons-official-fauci-denial-deception-covid-origins\/\">damning and quite memorable emails<\/a>&nbsp;he sent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of this evasiveness appears to have come in response to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/cdc-robert-redfield-covid-origins\/\">questions about gain-of-function<\/a>&nbsp;research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4396265-fauci-sits-through-first-seven-hours-of-questioning-with-covid-select-subcommittee\/\">Wenstrup remarked<\/a>&nbsp;on Fauci\u2019s \u201cnew \u2026 operational definition\u201d of gain-of-function. \u201cI don\u2019t know that every scientist that deals with this type of viral research understands his definition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ebright:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFauci\u2019s attempt to deny he violated U.S. government policies by claiming he uses different definitions of \u2018gain-of-function research\u2019 and enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research is equivalent \u2014 exactly equivalent \u2014 to a terrorist attempting to deny he violated federal laws by claiming he uses different definitions of \u2018terrorism.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFauci was not empowered to replace definitions in U.S. government policies with his own personal definitions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebright told The Defender the only definitions of \u201cgain-of-function research\u201d and \u201cenhanced potential pandemic pathogen research\u201d that matter are the definitions in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phe.gov\/s3\/dualuse\/documents\/gain-of-function.pdf\">U.S. government policies in effect in 2014-2017<\/a>&nbsp;and from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phe.gov\/s3\/dualuse\/documents\/p3co.pdf\">2018 to the present<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on those definitions, Ebright said Fauci \u201crepeatedly and fragrantly violated\u201d the guidelines for both types of research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/marjorie-taylor-greene-anthony-fauci-coronavirus-testimony-congress-1858931\">According to Newsweek<\/a>, \u201cFauci has previously denied in testimony to Congress that the National Institutes of Health, of which he was a member between 1984 and 2022, had funded risky \u2018gain-of-function\u2019 research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Jan. 6&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/usrtk.org\/covid-19-origins\/daszak-shi-visits-nih-fauci\/\">report by U.S. Right to Know<\/a>&nbsp;said that \u201cscientists at the center of the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/covid-origins-wuhan-lab-energy-department\/\">lab leak<\/a>\u2019 controversy\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/wuhan-lab-shi-zhengli-bat-lady-visited-fauci-nih-2017-rtk\/\">visited Fauci\u2019s NIAID in 2017<\/a>&nbsp;to discuss their research \u2014 \u201cjust months before NIH lifted a pause on high-risk virology, and two years before a novel coronavirus emerged near their lab in Wuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4396265-fauci-sits-through-first-seven-hours-of-questioning-with-covid-select-subcommittee\/\">defended Fauci<\/a>&nbsp;after Monday\u2019s interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of our GOP colleagues have failed to recognize the operative, regulatory definition [of] gain-of-function that was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/osp.od.nih.gov\/policies\/national-science-advisory-board-for-biosecurity-nsabb\/gain-of-function-research\/\">instituted in 2017<\/a>&nbsp;was operative at the time the COVID pandemic came along. And the concern over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/covid-gain-of-function-ecohealth-lawsuit\/\">EcoHealth Alliance<\/a>&nbsp;\u2026 Dr. Fauci was able to clarify that today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2024\/jan\/8\/lawmakers-question-fauci-in-private-over-his-handl\/\">Wenstrup said<\/a>&nbsp;the subcommittee planned to question Fauci further regarding gain-of-function research today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\">RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker\u2019s&nbsp;<em>New<\/em>&nbsp;Book: \u201cVax-Unvax\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\">ORDER NOW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fauci unable to confirm NIAID had any oversight of U.S.-funded foreign labs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday\u2019s interview also addressed government grants for gain-of-function research and foreign laboratories, such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the subcommittee, Fauci \u201ctestified that he signed off on every foreign and domestic NIAID grant without reviewing the proposals\u201d but \u201cwas unable to confirm if NIAID has ANY mechanisms to conduct oversight of the foreign laboratories they fund.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/COVIDSelect\/status\/1679606442414809090?s=20\">2020 email<\/a>, previously released by the Select Subcommittee, proved Dr. Fauci was aware of dangerous gain-of-function research occurring in Wuhan, China. Today, he backtracked by arguing he should not have stated that as \u2018fact,\u2019\u201d the subcommittee added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&#038;embedId=twitter-widget-0&#038;features=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%3D%3D&#038;frame=false&#038;hideCard=false&#038;hideThread=false&#038;id=1679606442414809090&#038;lang=en&#038;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fchildrenshealthdefense.org%2Fdefender%2Fanthony-fauci-pandemic-house-interview%2F&#038;sessionId=7a92bc5a5ca2a9f9a3186a18c26a7a46545bc0bc&#038;siteScreenName=ChildrensHD&#038;theme=light&#038;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&#038;width=550px<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its Nov. 30, 2023 statement,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/dr-anthony-fauci-to-appear-for-transcribed-interview-and-public-hearing\/\">the subcommittee said<\/a>&nbsp;it had previously \u201crevealed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023.03.05-SSCP-Memo-Re.-New-Evidence.Proximal-Origin.pdf\">evidence<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/fauci-suppress-covid-lab-leak-theory-house-committee-report\/\">Dr. Fauci prompted the drafting<\/a>&nbsp;of the now infamous \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-020-0820-9\">Proximal Origin<\/a>\u2019 publication to disprove the lab-leak theory. Fauci then cited the paper from the White House podium&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/wuhan-conspiring-discredit-covid-leak-lab\/\">without disclosing his involvement<\/a>&nbsp;in prompting the publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFurther, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/COVIDSelect\/status\/1679606442414809090?s=20\">Select Subcommittee revealed<\/a>&nbsp;that Dr. Fauci was aware of dangerous gain-of-function research occurring in Wuhan, China prior to the emergence of COVID-19, but remained curiously silent to the public,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Monday\u2019s interview, Wenstrup said that Fauci\u2019s responses indicated there were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4396265-fauci-sits-through-first-seven-hours-of-questioning-with-covid-select-subcommittee\/\">some tremendous flaws in our system<\/a>\u201d concerning issuing grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDr. Fauci signed off on all domestic and foreign research grants without reviewing the proposals and admitted that he was unaware if NIAID conducted oversight of the laboratories they fund,\u201d Wenstrup said in the subcommittee statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClearly, the American people and the United States government are operating with completely different expectations about the responsibilities of our public health leaders and the accountability of our public health agencies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) defended Fauci\u2019s responses on this issue, saying \u201cI think it\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2024\/jan\/8\/lawmakers-question-fauci-in-private-over-his-handl\/\">probably pretty political<\/a>&nbsp;that we\u2019re here to begin with. But I think they\u2019re asking questions and he is being very specific in answering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the closed-door nature of the interview afforded Fauci the opportunity to \u201cclarify a lot of political points people have tried to make,\u201d without \u201cplaying to the cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fauci\u2019s testimony was scheduled to continue today, with further questions about the \u201cProximal Origin\u201d paper and COVID-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI look forward to asking Dr. Fauci further questions about mandates, his role in prompting the \u2018Proximal Origin\u2019 publication, and his policy positions related to masks and lockdowns,\u201d Wenstrup said in Monday\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTomorrow\u2019s testimony will continue the Select Subcommittee\u2019s effort to deliver the answers Americans demand and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Data-set manipulation&#8221; to describe this type of scientific fraud?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>01\/09\/24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\">COVID<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u203a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender-news\">NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CDC Study Concludes Most Young Children Hospitalized for COVID Were Unvaccinated \u2014 After Enrolling 7 Times as Many Unvaxed Kids in Study<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors of the study published last month in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal used their results to recommend COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for children as young as 6 months and to conclude that unvaccinated kids were unhealthier to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/angelo-depalma-ph-d\/\">Angelo DePalma, Ph.D.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/karl-jablonowski-ph-d\/\">Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/cdc-study-children-covid-unvaccinated-vaccinated\/?utm_source=luminate&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=defender&amp;utm_id=20240109#comments\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/cdc-study-children-covid-unvaccinated-vaccinated\/#disqus_thread\">19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link copied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/cdc-children-covid-hospital-feature-800x417.jpg\" alt=\"cdc children covid hospital feature\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Miss a day, miss a lot.<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/sign-up\/?utm_source=top_of_article&amp;utm_medium=the_defender&amp;utm_campaign=sign_ups\">Subscribe to The Defender&#8217;s Top News of the Day<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>It&#8217;s free.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A U.S. government-sponsored study published late last month in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/pidj\/abstract\/9900\/characteristics_and_clinical_outcomes_of.685.aspx\">The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal<\/a>&nbsp;reported that most young children hospitalized for acute COVID-19 had not received an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/about-genomics\/fact-sheets\/Understanding-COVID-19-mRNA-Vaccines\">mRNA COVID-19 vaccination<\/a>&nbsp;and were sicker to begin with than vaccinated children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors\u2019 conclusions are true on the surface, but their analysis ignored that more than 7 times as many unvaccinated as vaccinated children were enrolled in their study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Only 4.5% of trial subjects completed primary COVID series<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators led by Laura Zambrano, Ph.D., a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist, recruited 597 children ages 8 months through under age 5 hospitalized for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\/\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;at 28 U.S. pediatric hospitals between Sept. 20, 2022, and May 31, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unvaccinated subjects outnumbered subjects who had received at least one COVID-19 shot by 528 to 69, a more than 7-fold difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children were grouped by demographic factors such as race, sex and geographic location, vaccination status (no vaccine, incomplete vaccine series or fully vaccinated) and underlying non-COVID-19 illnesses, or comorbidities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only 4.5% of the subjects had completed their primary COVID-19 vaccination series and 7% had received at least one dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cases varied widely in severity, with 174 (29.1% of all subjects) admitted to intensive care and 75 progressing to life-threatening illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifty-one (8.5% of all subjects) required life support via invasive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/different_types_of_mechanical_ventilation\/article.htm\">mechanical ventilation<\/a>, and three required&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/tests-procedures\/ecmo\/about\/pac-20484615\">extracorporeal membrane oxygenation<\/a>, a life-support treatment involving a heart-lung machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on results from both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/vaccinated-kids-covid-viral-shedding\/\">vaccinated<\/a>&nbsp;and unvaccinated groups, infants 8 months to under age 2 were more vulnerable to serious outcomes than children ages 2 to 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, the youngest subjects had more life-threatening illnesses and the greatest need for high-level respiratory support involving&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/nursingcriticalcare\/Fulltext\/2016\/03000\/Managing_vasoactive_infusions_to_restore.8.aspx\">vasoactive infusions<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 intravenous treatments to maintain normal blood pressure and heart rate. Yet they also had shorter hospital stays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators concluded that most children hospitalized for COVID-19, including most children with underlying medical conditions, were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/unvaxed-ties-pfizer-new-research-study-flawed\/\">unvaccinated<\/a>. On that basis, they called for \u201cstrategies to reduce barriers to vaccine access among young children.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\">\u201cThe Wuhan Cover-Up\u201d by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\">ORDER NOW<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wuhan-cover-up-book\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Researchers tested kids for COVID but not other respiratory infections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zambrano et al. also compared the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/mrna-vaccines-nonsense-proteins-immune-response-pfizer\/\">Pfizer mRNA shot<\/a>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/pfizer-moderna-covid-vaccine-celeb-ads\/\">Moderna product<\/a>. They found that children who took the Moderna product were somewhat more likely to experience a serious outcome, however, the numbers from both groups were small and the authors did not subject them to statistical analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on their analysis they also calculated and reported, in their \u201cresults\u201d section, that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/florida-joseph-ladapo-halt-covid-mrna-vaccines\/\">mRNA COVID-19 vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;were 40% effective in reducing serious outcomes. However, in their discussion (several sections later), they admitted that \u201cvaccine coverage in this population was too low to evaluate vaccine effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were two notable limitations to the Zambrano study. Even though the researchers recruited children who were only partially vaccinated the study\u2019s design excluded children who had received any vaccination fewer than 14 days before hospital admission. Therefore no short-term post-vaccination adverse events were included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another limitation was that children were tested for COVID-19 but not for all possible respiratory infections, meaning \u201cit is possible that RSV [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/rsv\/index.html\">respiratory syncytial virus<\/a>],&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncird\/human-metapneumovirus.html\">human metapneumovirus<\/a>&nbsp;or other respiratory viral co-detections influenced disease severity.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\">RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker\u2019s&nbsp;<em>New<\/em>&nbsp;Book: \u201cVax-Unvax\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy\/dp\/1510766960\/\">ORDER NOW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media parroted authors\u2019 conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. media (for example&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thevaccinereaction.org\/2023\/12\/covid-vaccinated-children-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-for-respiratory-illness\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thevaccinereaction.org\/2023\/12\/covid-vaccinated-children-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-for-respiratory-illness\/\">here<\/a>) picked up on the Zambrano paper and repeated its conclusion that most hospitalized COVID-19 pediatric patients were unvaccinated \u2014 ignoring that the study included more than 7 times as many unvaccinated as vaccinated subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A deeper dive into the data reveals the extent of this error and the discrepancies between what Zambrano et al. reported and what they saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tables 1 and 2 illustrate what the authors got wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/table-1-zambrano-data-covid-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283910\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These calculations say nothing about the relative outcomes for vaccinated and unvaccinated children because Zambrano et al. either did not perform the relevant calculation \u2014 number of cases in each group divided by the number of subjects \u2014 or chose not to report the results it generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of presenting the number of subjects experiencing the indicated outcome as a percentage of vaccinated or unvaccinated groups, they reported them as a percentage of all subjects experiencing that outcome. Since there were 7 times as many unvaccinated as vaccinated subjects, this approach all but guaranteed the numbers among the unvaxed would be higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s an analogy: In a hypothetical study comparing 10 coffee drinkers to 100 abstainers, five drinkers and 10 abstainers reported feeling nervous. Using Zambrano\u2019s logic, 67% of people feeling nervous were abstainers, and just 33% drank coffee. This \u201cproves,\u201d according to Zambrano\u2019s logic, that not drinking coffee doubles (67% vs. 33%) the risk of getting the jitters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct way to view this data is that 10 in 100 abstainers, or 10%, felt jittery but 5 in 10 (50%) of coffee drinkers felt jittery, and that drinking coffee raises the risk of nervousness fivefold (50% vs. 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Table 2 uses the same raw data as Table 1. But instead of reporting vaccinated and unvaccinated data as a percentage of all data, it first calculates the occurrence of these conditions or outcomes in each group and compares the inter-group differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/table-2-health-outcomes-vaccination-status-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283916\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospital stays were also on average one day shorter for the unvaccinated. The only area where unvaccinated children faired slightly worse was in underlying cardiac issues, but the authors did not address this small difference in their discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\">Your support helps fund this work, and CHD\u2019s related advocacy, education and scientific research.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/legal-donation\/?itm_term=legal-donation\">DONATE NOW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous study used same tactic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7248a2.htm\">study<\/a>&nbsp;preceding the Zambrano paper by three weeks used the same tactic to arrive at the same conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tannis et al. compared many of the same outcomes as Zambrano in 6,337 unvaccinated and 281 vaccinated children ages 6 months to under 5 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All subjects had visited emergency departments for acute respiratory illness from July 2022 to September 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By coincidence, Tannis also calculated vaccine effectiveness to be 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Table 3 presents data from Tannis et al. with percentages reported by Tannis (Tannis %) and the actual values (Actual %).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-table-3-underlying-conditions-outcomes-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283922\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccinated children were also 68.3% more likely to harbor HCoV, an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/irv.13128\">endemic coronavirus<\/a>, than the unvaccinated. Similar to SARS-CoV-2 (the COVID-19 virus), HCoV can cause serious illness in immunocompromised individuals and the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Subscribe to The Defender &#8211; It\u2019s Free!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"gform_fields_51\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Name*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/suggest-a-correction\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/suggest-a-correction\/\">SUGGEST A CORRECTION<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/angelo-depalma-bio-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Angelo DePalma, Ph.D.'s avatar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/angelo-depalma-ph-d\/\">Angelo DePalma, Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Angelo DePalma, Ph.D., is a science reporter\/editor for The Defender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karl-Jablonowski-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D.'s avatar\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/karl-jablonowski-ph-d\/\">Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., holds a master\u2019s degree in computer science and a doctorate in biomedical and health informatics. 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7:13 pm EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0:00 \/ 6:011X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beyondwords.io\/?utm_source=player&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BeyondWords<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014&nbsp;A former food and pharmaceutical consultant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzRjkNYT-U8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained to Tucker Carlson<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday that drug ads primarily aim not to gain new customers but to \u201cbuy off\u201d the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed, an organization promoting prevention-focused healthcare, told Carlson it is an \u201copen secret\u201d that the \u201cnews ad spending from pharma is a public relations lobbying tactic\u201d to \u201cbuy off the news.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=1&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fpharma-consultant-tucker-carlson-drug%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2024-02-06%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=22cecfbe6d\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is that major media organizations not only fail to scrutinize or investigate Big Pharma, but they paint those who reject any standard pharmaceuticals, including vaccines, as backwards and irrational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Means noticed, for example, that one was framed as a \u201cterrible, anti-science Luddite for asking why the shots that we require our kids to get fundamentally change the immune system of that child for life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Pharma\u2019s grip on the media is compounded by the enormous influence it exercises on even regulatory health agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and those that set the standard for medical practice, like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only are pharmaceutical companies the largest funders of news companies, providing for 50 percent of their budget, Means&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drhyman.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/podcast-ep848\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Dr. Mark Hyman in a recent podcast, but they are the biggest funders of \u201cgovernment,\u201d \u201cthink tanks,\u201d and \u201cacademic research.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former pharma consultant cited the diabetes drug Ozempic, which has racked up popularity for its off-label use for weight loss, as the \u201cRosetta Stone\u201d to understanding \u201cpharma industry corruption.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"573\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-11.png 670w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-11-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Means pointed out that the drug exploits the massive health crisis of obesity and diabetes in the U.S., where he said now 50 percent of teens and 80 percent of adults are overweight. This is just \u201cone branch of the tree of underlying metabolic dysfunction that\u2019s ravaging our country,\u201d Calley told Carlson, adding that over half of Americans now have prediabetes, including 33 percent of young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf a fish tank is dirty, you clean the tank. You don\u2019t drug the fish,\u201d said Means, emphasizing that health agencies don\u2019t talk about the root cause of obesity or diabetes but prefer to promote a weekly injection marketed for lifetime use \u201cthat costs $20,000 per patient.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That U.S. health and regulatory agencies are not interested in addressing the root cause of disease is evidenced by their nutrition standards, Means suggested. For example, 95 percent of the committee that sets U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines for nutrition standards is \u201cpaid for by food companies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"lsn-subscribe-title-10\">SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY HEADLINES&nbsp;US&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Catholic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These guidelines say that a two-year-old can consume a diet with 10 percent of added sugar, according to Means, who noted that the group is \u201ccompletely corrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that 90 percent of government subsidies fund processed food, with 10 percent of all food stamp funding devoted to soda alone. \u201cWe\u2019re the only country in the world that allows that,\u201d Means told Carlson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Against this setting, U.S. health agencies are promoting a drug that Means said is \u201cmedically\u201d an \u201cabsolute disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans have been filing lawsuits due to severe gastrointestinal issues caused by Ozempic, including stomach paralysis.&nbsp;\u201cWe\u2019re seeing most people that take the drug within the first year come off it because\u2026 the stomach issues are so pronounced,\u201d said Means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disturbingly, the drug has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/wegovy-other-weight-loss-drugs-scrutinized-over-reports-suicidal-thoughts-2023-09-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">linked<\/a>&nbsp;to depression and suicidal thoughts frequently enough that the European Union has launched a probe into its effects on suicidal ideation, said Means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/cl.php?bannerid=571&amp;zoneid=2&amp;sig=2686b36a52c5c1b13d7258071f3ac8beb7340281756314074d2196c4037314c2&amp;dest=https%3A%2F%2Fstjosephpartners.com%2Flifesitenews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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noopener\">promoting&nbsp;<\/a>the drug for obese teenagers, noted Means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, groups like the AAP and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) receive the majority of their funding from pharma even as they \u201chave statutory authority to create the standard care for how we practice medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major media outlets do not alert the public to any of these facts, nor the fact that Ozempic\u2019s distributor, Novo Nordisk, is \u201cthe largest spender on foundational obesity research,\u201d according to Means, or that it \u201chas given $30 million in direct bribes to obesity doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou would be hard pressed to find a doctor who treats obesity in this country who has not received some kind of donation [or] research grant\u2026 from Novo,\u201d Means told Carlson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health executive said there are real potential political remedies for these problems but is skeptical that they will be enforced while Big Pharma\u2019s tentacles remain in major health institutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Something-big-happening-in-Europe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4955\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Something-big-happening-in-Europe.jpg 1010w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Something-big-happening-in-Europe-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Something-big-happening-in-Europe-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe president tomorrow can tell the FDA that the U.S. can no longer be the only country in the world that allows Big Pharma ads on TV news,\u201d said Means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He could also forbid NIH funding and government grants to anyone with \u201cconflicts of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat would sound like a reasonable policy to 95 percent the American people. I think that\u2019s unimpeachable bipartisan policy,\u201d said Means, but he believes that would \u201ccause a conniption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government could further alter agricultural subsidies to promote healthy food and restrict conflicts of interest in universities, which he called \u201cessentially research and development labs for pharma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Means questioned why doctors aren\u2019t prescribing \u201cfood interventions\u201d and \u201cexercise\u201d for their patients with pre-diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you actually follow the science, that would be the correct medical intervention to reverse that,\u201d he told Carlson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"811\" height=\"636\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/World-wide-scam.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5780\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/World-wide-scam.jpg 811w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/World-wide-scam-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/World-wide-scam-768x602.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=3&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fpharma-consultant-tucker-carlson-drug%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2024-02-06%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=48624051fe\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA doctor actually&nbsp;<em>can<\/em>&nbsp;write a note for exercise and food and that actually can open up medical tax advantage dollars and other insurance dollars\u2026 But the second you get someone off the chronic disease treadmill, that\u2019s not a profitable patient. There\u2019s nothing more profitable for the pharmaceutical industry than, frankly, a sick kid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOPICS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/topics\/politics\/\">Politics &#8211; U.S.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>TAGGED AS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/american-academy-of-pediatrics\/\">American Academy Of Pediatrics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/american-diabetes-association\/\">American Diabetes Association<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/big-pharma\/\">Big Pharma<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/calley-means\/\">Calley Means<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/department-of-agriculture\/\">Department Of Agriculture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/drug-companies\/\">drug companies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/drugs\/\">Drugs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/fda\/\">Fda<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/food-and-drug-administration\/\">Food And Drug Administration<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/food-companies\/\">food companies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/health-agencies\/\">health agencies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/health-agency-corruption\/\">health agency corruption<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/mainstream-media\/\">Mainstream Media<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/media-corruption\/\">media corruption<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/nih\/\">Nih<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/obesity\/\">Obesity<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/ozempic\/\">Ozempic<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/pharmaceutical-companies\/\">pharmaceutical companies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/truemed\/\">TrueMed<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/tucker-carlson\/\">Tucker Carlson<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/u-s-department-of-agriculture\/\">U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/usda\/\">Usda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/10\/buddhist-monks-with-superpowers\/\">Buddhist Monks with Superpowers?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/energy-from-space.com\/wp\/2024\/07\/18\/adam-anunnaki\/\">Adam &amp; 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