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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

The FDA is requiring manufacturers of GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss drugs to include a warning for non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) or sudden vision loss. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are also facing new lawsuits for failing to warn doctors and consumers about the risks associated with their products. A study published in…Continue reading FDA Requires GLP-1 Labels to Warn of Potential NAION Risk as Vision-Loss and Gastroparesis Lawsuits Grow

Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) helped support a lawsuit that reached a settlement in a case against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) alleging false advertising through its “Big Bad Cough” campaign, which encouraged grandparents to get the pertussis vaccine. The ad showed a grandparent transforming into a big bad wolf character, like in “Little Red Riding Hood,” because…Continue reading GSK Settled  False Advertising Case About “Big Bad Wolf” Pertussis Vaccine Ads. CNN and the CDC Are Still Selling the Same Claim

Britain’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner has issued a direct warning that artificial intelligence is enabling criminal gangs to exploit children at a greater scale and speed than ever before. In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Eleanor Lyons described how AI-generated fake profiles mimicking young people are being used to groom and recruit British children into…Continue reading UK Anti-Slavery Commissioner Warns AI Is Scaling Child Exploitation as US Reports Explode

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

A lawsuit has been filed against the state of Washington alleging the newly passed ballot initiative to prevent biological males from participating in female sports is unconstitutional. Colorado also passed a ballot initiative segregating school sports based on biological sex and prohibiting gender-transition surgeries on minors. Both initiatives face legal challenges, as Governor-elect Phil Weiser…Continue reading Activists and Lawsuits Aim to Overturn Voter-Approved Transgender Initiatives In Colorado and Washington