Children’s Health Defense

Facebook Dumps ‘Fact-checkers’ One Day After CHD Asks Supreme Court to Hear Censorship Case Against Meta

Commenting on today’s news, CHD CEO Mary Holland told The Defender, “It’s clear that Mark Zuckerberg is worried about new anti-censorship policies of the incoming administration — as he should be. The record in CHD v. Meta clearly shows Facebook’s close collaboration with the White House to censor vaccine-related speech, even pre-COVID.”

Holland added:

“CHD has taken its case to the Supreme Court, and Facebook doubtless realizes there are Justices there that are very dubious about Facebook’s role in censoring speech at the behest of the government in the new public square. Zuckerberg may imagine that by making this announcement he is mooting this case, or making it no longer significant. That’s not the situation — the country needs closure that this kind of fusion of state and industry to censor unwanted information will never happen again.”

CHD’s lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and its founder and CEO, Zuckerberg, alleges that government actors partnered with Facebook to censor the plaintiffs’ speech — particularly speech related to vaccines and COVID-19 — that should have been protected under the First Amendment.

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Louisiana Man Who Had Bird Flu Dies — But Cause of Death Is Unclear

Dr. Clayton J. Baker said such messaging on the part of some media outlets “is reminiscent of the fearmongering that was so prevalent during COVID-19, where numerous patients who actually died ‘with COVID’ were classified as ‘COVID deaths.’”

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California’s pesticide regulators released preliminary findings last week linking the herbicide paraquat to risks to wildlife and human health harms, including thyroid disease and birth defects.

“The evidence continues to mount that paraquat is just too dangerous,” said Jonathan Evans, environmental health legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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The Biden administration excluded the FBI from an August 2021 White House intelligence briefing, preventing the bureau from presenting evidence supporting the theory that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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A preschool-aged child died of cardio-respiratory arrest after getting a COVID-19 booster in a Moderna clinical trial, according to an investigation by journalist Alex Berenson.

The FDA has yet to answer the question: Did the agency know about the death?

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🚨 BREAKING: New Study Linking Fluoride to Lower IQ in Children Sparks Renewed Calls to End Water Fluoridation

A meta-analysis of 74 epidemiological studies examining the link between children’s IQ and fluoride exposure found that the more fluoride pregnant women and young children are exposed to, the greater the decrease in a child’s IQ.

The study, published today in JAMA Pediatrics, was conducted by scientists from the NIH's National Toxicology Program.

The in-depth statistical meta-analysis is the largest and most rigorous ever conducted on fluoride, according to a commentary accompanying the study, and their findings highlight the need to “reassess systemic fluoride exposure, again.”

In the U.S., about 40-70% of a person’s fluoride intake comes from fluoridated drinking water.

The EPA has until the end of the month to file an appeal contesting the federal judge’s order that the agency make new rules regulating water fluoridation based on the risk it poses to children’s neurodevelopment.

“NTPs findings highlight the need for the EPA to move quickly in taking regulatory action to protect the public from the risk posed by fluoridation.” — Michael Connett

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⚠️ Heavy Metals Linked to Higher Risk of Childhood Obesity

Adequate maternal levels of micronutrients such as selenium (Se) and folate help mitigate the adverse effects of toxic metal exposure on childhood obesity, underscoring the role of maternal nutrition in child health.

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💡 Did you know you can reduce formaldehyde exposure in your home?

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⚠️ GMO Tomato Project Funded by Gates Foundation and U.S. Taxpayers Hits Roadblock

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and DARPA, a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, are funding research to genetically engineer tomatoes to be able to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the whitefly, a common insect that damages tomato plants.

“Tomatoes engineered with insecticides to disrupt reproduction may sound like a breakthrough, but they raise critical questions about safety, transparency, and the ethics of modifying food crops to attack life at its reproductive core." — Jon Fleetwood

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⚠️ Pesticide Banned in Europe But Widely Used in U.S. Makes Brain Cells Age Faster

Exposure to atrazine can harm the hypothalamus, an essential part of the brain, increasing the risk of neurodegenerative disease, according to a recently released study in mice.

Atrazine has also been associated with liver, kidney and heart damage in animals, according to the CDC.

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🚨 FDA’s Own Study Finds DNA Contamination in Pfizer Vaccines

“I would hope that evidence of highly variable manufacturing would be grounds for immediate class 1 recall from the FDA. They are currently distracted with performing class 1 recalls on non-lethal hairspray.” — Kevin McKernan

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🚨 Leading Public Health Figure Calls on Biden to Authorize Bird Flu Vaccine

During a Dec. 29, 2024, interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Dr. Leana Wen, the former commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department and a professor of public health at George Washington University, accused the outgoing Biden administration of not doing enough to address the bird flu outbreak and criticized the lack of availability of a bird flu vaccine.

Wen suggested the Trump administration would seek additional evidence of the vaccine’s effectiveness before authorizing it. (That's a bad thing? Shouldn't safety and effectiveness be priority?)

There have been 66 confirmed bird flu cases in the U.S., all but one of which caused only mild illness, and there have been no reports of human-to-human transmission of the virus.

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Fact-checking Mainstream Media: Did RFK Jr. Cause Measles Outbreak in Samoa That Killed 83 Children?

The Samoan measles outbreak had a particularly high case fatality rate because children either didn’t seek medical treatment in Samoa’s broken healthcare system or because doctors used ineffective treatments.

“He couldn’t have caused it, because the damage was already done.” — Dr. Vinay Prasad

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🚨 Vermont Supreme Court Ruling Allows Schools to Administer COVID Vaccines Without Parents’ Consent

"If a teacher or worker were to be held liable for whacking a child with a stick while injecting a COVID-19 vaccine, why could they not be equally sued for the jab itself? The Vermont Court has enabled the physical battery by injection of a child by government employees seeking cash bonuses." — Brownstone Institute

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