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“Pfizer’s marketing campaign that drove record-breaking profits rested on deception and falsehoods,” according to a lawsuit filed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier against Pfizer for the way the company promoted its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit alleges that Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and the company made false and deceptive claims about the vaccine’s safety,…Continue reading Florida Sues Pfizer, Alleging COVID Vaccine Safety and Transmission Claims Were Deceptive

A new study of nearly 2.3 million older adults in Ontario found that a drug’s side effect is often treated as a new disease, and a second drug is added to treat it. The researchers called 24 of these sequences high-priority prescribing cascades. The most common were iron pills followed by laxatives, cholesterol drugs followed…Continue reading Study Flags Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing Cascades Among Seniors

Amish Petition Supreme Court Over Alleged Constitutional Violations of Their Religious Freedom  By Steven Middendorp “New York has effectively prohibited the practice of the Amish faith within its borders,” according to a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the nation’s highest court to intervene. Three small, private Amish schoolhouses in rural New York…Continue reading Amish Petition Supreme Court Over Alleged Religious Discrimination and Vaccine Fines

An Ontario cross-sectional study of 39,761 students found that 21.1% of students, with an average age of 13 years, utilized generative AI for emotional support, and they were also twice as likely to have clinical emotional problems. The study only shows an association and does not prove causation. Young people who are struggling may be…Continue reading One in Five Kids Are Using AI For Emotional Support; The Bots Support Isolation And Suicide

A San Francisco nonprofit called Reflective has published a plan to spray sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, first by the ton and later by the thousands of tons, and to treat the result as a research step toward “monitored cooling” of the planet. The company said it does not advocate “deployment,” but they are advocating…Continue reading A Nonprofit Wants to Spray 25,000 Tons of Sulfur Dioxide; It Calls That “Research,” Not Deployment

Amish Petition Supreme Court Over Alleged Constitutional Violations of Their Religious Freedom  By Steven Middendorp “New York has effectively prohibited the practice of the Amish faith within its borders,” according to a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the nation’s highest court to intervene. Three small, private Amish schoolhouses in rural New York…Continue reading Amish Petition Supreme Court Over Alleged Religious Discrimination and Vaccine Fines