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The 99th Congress That Called Vaccines “Unavoidably Unsafe”

Meet the original “Conspiracy Theorists,” Ronald Reagan and the members of the 99th Congress, who, in 1986, passed into law the “medical misinformation” that vaccines were “unavoidably unsafe” and potentially caused autism.

Last week Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, a scathing letter accusing him of, among other things, “dangerous views on vaccine safety” and “false hysteria that vaccines cause autism.” The letter included 175 questions that she said he should be prepared to answer at his Senate confirmation hearings. But in her letter, she exposes her own ignorance of federal vaccine policy and the laws passed by her own legislative branch.

In 1986 the House of Representatives passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) by a voice vote. Senator Warren should know that her current Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was, at the time, a member of the House and should presumably know that the bill that was passed to give vaccine makers liability protection from civil claims when a child was killed or seriously injured by a vaccine, and placed all vaccines administered to children in the legal category of “unavoidably unsafe” medical products, which means a product that cannot be made safe for its intended use.

In 2018, Mary Holland, JD, then the Director of the Graduate Legal studies program at New York University School of Law, and now Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Health Defense, a non-profit organization founded by Kennedy, remarked on the legal standing of the safety of vaccines:

The key language about “unavoidable” side effects comes from the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 42 USC 300aa-22, re manufacturer responsibility (see bold text below).

That language was based on language from the Second Restatement of Torts (a legal treatise by tort scholars), adopted by most state courts in the mid-1960’s, that considered all vaccines as “unavoidably unsafe” products. The Restatement opined that such products, “properly prepared, and accompanied by proper directions and warnings, is not defective, nor is it unreasonably dangerous.”

Further the 2011 SCOTUS ruling in the Bruesewitz v. Wyeth case interpreted the highlighted text below from the National Vaccine Injury Act to find that it did not permit design defect litigation – that issue had been unclear since 1986, and different state high courts and federal circuits had decided the issue differently. So, [it] is correct that the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) never decided that vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe” directly, but it acknowledged that Congress considers them to be so.

Sec. 300aa-22. Standards of responsibility

(a) General rule

Except as provided in subsections (b), (c), and (e) of this section State law shall apply to a civil action brought for damages for a vaccine-related injury or death.

(b) Unavoidable adverse side effects; warnings

(1) No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1, 1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.

(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a vaccine shall be presumed to be accompanied by proper directions and warnings if the vaccine manufacturer shows that it complied in all material respects with all requirements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. See https://www.ageofautism.com/2018/11/the-supreme-court-did-not-deem-vaccines-unavoidably-unsafe-congress-did.html

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Cereal InfoWars: Corporate ‘Nutritionists’ Launder Industry Propaganda Through ‘News’ Media

(*The use of “nutritionists” and “news” here is intended in the loosest sense possible.)

The EBT serfs haven’t been purchasing their techno-slop chock full of food dyes and preservative chemicals banned in every other advanced nation on Earth with government cash in sufficient quantities of late, which has no doubt worked Kellogg’s™ and General Mills™ management up into a tizzy.

Related: ‘Critical Disability Studies’ Professor: Fatphobia ‘Undergirds’ Ozempic Craze

Via The Takeout (emphasis added):

“Sales of breakfast cereal have been falling for quite some time. Although the category actually experienced an uptick in popularity during the pandemic, it was a spike that didn’t last: As the world shifts away from the pandemic-induced lifestyle of never leaving the house, people are opting for more on-the-go breakfast foods such as granola bars, protein shakes, or even fast food breakfast sandwiches. This might be why you’re seeing Kellogg’s just-add-water cereal popping up at convenience stores, positioning itself as a similarly portable option…

“In recent weeks, executives from Kellogg and Post both separately said that they expect the cereal industry to return to its prepandemic trend of gradual decline, with sales ranging from flat to down by a low single-digit percentage a year,” WSJ reports.”

Their solution — if the deluge of listicle articles into my news feed daily citing “registered dietitians” is any indication — is to repackage industry propaganda as “news” and distribute it to people like the retarded feminist women who read HuffPost who will literally believe anything so long as a bona fide Expert™ lends their seal of approval.

From “Nutritionists Pick The Best (And Worst) Breakfast Cereals For Your Health,” via HuffPost (emphasis added):

“According to RD Kelly Toups LeBlanc, the VP of Nutrition Programming at Oldways, not all ultra-processed foods are created equal. “Some ultra-processed foods, like whole grain breakfast cereals, contain important food groups recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Other ultra-processed foods, like candy bars and soft drinks, do not.”

She takes issue with the way the NOVA [food classification] list categorizes foods, especially whole-grain cereals…

The truth is that whole grain cereals can be an important part of nutrition assistance programs, providing valuable nutrition to vulnerable populations. “In a 2023 study from the USDA, government scientists designed a nutritious seven-day, 2,000-calorie diet in which 91% of calories came from ultra-processed foods,” LeBlanc said.”

HuffPost’s Top 10 healthiest cereals for “vulnerable populations” list includes Fruit Loops, Lucky Charms, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch —bottom-of-the-barrel garbage that no sane person would make a breakfast staple unless they had a masochistic wish for cancer and a slow, painful death.

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Study Finds That Girl Scout Cookies Are Toxic

Girl Scout Cookies, a financing tool of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) since 1917, were initially home baked by Girl Scouts and their moms to finance troop activities. Today, two commercial bakers are licensed to produce Girl Scout Cookies. And, despite claiming they are full of “top-quality ingredients,” the cookies contain suspicious elements like natural and artificial flavors. But it gets even worse. Raking in $800 million a year, Girl Scout Cookies are intentionally formulated with genetically modified ingredients (GMOs), and 100 percent of the thirteen types of twenty-five cookies test positive for both cancer-causing glyphosate and toxic metals.

A recent article published by Moms Across America, written by health warriors Michelle Perro, MD, Stephanie Seneff, PhD, and Zen Honeycutt, BFA, reveals that 100 percent of the cookies tested contained at least 4 out of 5 heavy metals: aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. Peanut Butter Patties® were the most contaminated, with mercury levels at 0.07 ppb, lead at 42.5 ppb, and aluminum at 27,500 ppb. The source of aluminum is vague, but non-organic peanut crops are heavily sprayed with toxic chemicals. Of the 25 samples tested, 88 percent (22 cookies) contained all five toxic metals. Additionally, 76 percent of the cookies had cadmium levels exceeding EPA limits for water, and 96 percent contained lead, which has no safe exposure level. Both cadmium and lead are linked to cancer and brain disorders.

Thin Mints had the highest levels of the poison glyphosate. As is now well-documented, glyphosate is regularly used as a drying agent (aka desiccant) before harvesting on many crops, including oats, wheat, barley, legumes, sugar cane, and other crops. It is also used as a weed killer on GMO crops that are standard ingredients in Girl Scout Cookies, including beet sugar, corn, soy, and canola. The article highlights the shocking amount of glyphosate in the popular cookies, informing:

“From 13.57 ppb in Peanut Butter Patties® to 111.07 in Thin Mints®, the average amount is 33.43, 334 times higher than what Dr. Don Huber, Professor Emeritus of Perdue, states is harmful and must be avoided.”

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Alberta releases pandemic report — and the results are shocking!

A task force brought to fruition by the Alberta government wants the use of COVID-19 vaccines to be halted, citing insufficient data on their risks. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in the fall of 2022, ordered her then-health minister to review pandemic data and provide recommendations.

The findings of the $2 million task force affirmed Smith’s skepticism towards her predecessor’s handling of the pandemic, as well as safety concerns surrounding vaccines. It propped up ivermectin and and hydroxychloroquine as an alternative form of treatment.

The task force recommended the barring of COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure of their potential risks, as well as ending their use in healthy children and teenagers, reported the Globe and Mail.

It also suggests further research into their effectiveness, establishing support for vaccine-injured individuals, and providing an opt-out mechanism from federal public health policy.

Soon after being elected leader of the United Conservative Party, Smith referred to unvaccinated Canadians as the “most discriminated against group” she has seen in her lifetime, prompting public pushback.

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Official Czech Republic record level data released Nov 2024 confirms Moderna has nearly 50% higher ACM than Pfizer

AFAIK, for the first time in human history a government has voluntarily released vaccine record-level data, the “gold standard” for vaccine safety analysis.

Woo hoo!

It shows the Moderna vaccine is unsafe. And based on other data, Pfizer is too.

The data and the analysis

Here it is: the Czech Republic record level data (1.3GB in size).

Since no epidemiologist in the world is analyzing this data (since it would be a career-limiting move), I guess it’s up to me to tell you what it says.

So I wrote about 150 lines of Python code to analyze it and you can download the summary spreadsheet here and take a look at what I found.

Basically, Moderna is a disaster. It increases All Cause Mortality (ACM) by around 50% relative to Pfizer, and that’s in non-COVID periods. So even if Pfizer is perfectly safe (it isn’t), Moderna should be immediately halted.

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‘Lab-Grown’ Meat Increases Blood Pressure, Inflammation, Depression: Study

At some point recently, “plant-based meat alternatives” (PBMAs) — AKA “lab slop pseudo-meat” — became the marketing term du jour. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but making techno-slop sound appealing is a tall task even for the slickest silver-tongued PR prodigy.

It turns out PBMAs might not be the miracle breakthrough that’s going to wean the useless eaters off of their meat habit and improve their health simultaneously that Bill Gates promised it would be.

Quite the opposite, in fact, it seems.

Via SciTechDaily (emphasis added):

Plant-Based Meat Alternatives (PBMAs), a common choice among vegetarians, are classified as ultra-processed foods and may carry similar risks.

A groundbreaking study published in Food Frontiers by researchers from the University of Surrey found that vegetarians who consumed PBMAs faced a 42% higher risk of depression compared to vegetarians who avoided these products.

The study, which was led by Hana Navratilova, analyzed data from the UK Biobank and found no notable differences in intake of sodium, free sugar, total sugar, or saturated fatty acids between those vegetarians who ate PBMAs and those who did not. The researchers did find, however, that those who eat PBMAs had higher blood pressure and C-reactive protein* (CRP) levels, a marker of inflammation, and lower levels of apolipoprotein A, a protein associated with HDL, a “good” cholesterol; PBMA consumption was, however, also linked to a reduced risk of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by 40%.

*C-reactive protein levels are the single most telling biomarker of systemic inflammation, and as such are the single most important biomarker for chronic disease risk associated with inflammation — which is virtually all chronic diseases. So it’s not “a marker of inflammation,” as ScitTechDaily describes it, it’s the marker of inflammation.  

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PFAS Found in Sludge Used as Fertilizer Can Contaminate Milk, Eggs and Meat

U.S. regulators on Tuesday added to growing concerns about the long-standing practice of using sewage sludge to fertilize farmland, releasing a report warning that chemicals contaminating the sludge pose heightened human health risks for cancer and other illnesses.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said two types of hazardous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) widely found in sewage sludge, a byproduct of wastewater treatment, can contaminate the milk, eggs and meat that come from farm animals raised on agricultural land where the sludge has been applied.

Those “exposure pathways” are among multiple ways in which people can be at risk, the EPA said.

The agency focused on perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), two well-studied types of PFAS chemicals linked to testicular and kidney cancer as well as liver problems.

The EPA last spring designated PFOS and PFOA as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law and announced the first legally enforceable limits for the two chemicals and four other types of PFAS in drinking water.

The EPA said that though the majority of U.S. food crops are not grown with the use of sewage sludge as a soil conditioner or fertilizer, because of the “extreme persistence” of PFOA and PFOS in soils, land where sewage sludge was applied years ago may still be contaminated.

The agency’s draft risk assessment, which was made publicly available on Jan. 14, said that “under certain scenarios and conditions,” land-applying or disposing of sewage sludge containing 1 part per billion or more of PFOA or PFOS “could result in human health risks exceeding the agency’s acceptable thresholds for cancer and noncancer effects.”

The draft assessment models health risks for people who live on or near contaminated sites or who eat primarily food or drinking water from PFAS-contaminated areas.

The report will be available for public comment over a 60-day period and may help the agency determine regulatory actions it might take under the Clean Water Act, said the EPA.

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Full list of foods that have red dye 3 in them as FDA bans substance over cancer links

The FDA announced today it was banning the use of red 3 dye in foods in America, telling thousands of manufacturers to strip it from their products.

Food and drink makers have until January 2027 to reformulate their recipes or be forced out of the market.

The FDA agency said it was taking the action as a ‘matter of law’ because some studies have found that the dye caused cancer in lab rats. 

‘The FDA is taking action that will remove the authorization for the use of… Red No. 3 in food and ingested drugs,’ said Jim Jones, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for human foods. 

The dye has been used for decades to give candy, soda, and other foods and vibrant, cherry-red hue. It was banned from cosmetics by the FDA about three decades ago.  

There is no indication so far that food manufacturers will challenge the new rule, and they will have sufficient time to adjust their products to meet the new standards.

There is some concern that manufacturers may opt to use red 40, which, along with red 3, has been associated with various health concerns.

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US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

The FDA today has issued an order today that will ban Red No. 3 from food products and ingested drugs.

The dye, which was approved for use in 1907, has been banned in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990 over evidence that it can cause cancer. Its use in food is already banned or restricted in Australia, Japan, and countries in the EU.

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles and strawberry Ensure.

Food manufacturers will have until Jan. 15, 2027, to remove it from all products, while makers of ingested drugs will have until Jan. 18, 2028.

The new ban is based on the Delaney Clause of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which was enacted in 1960.

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Herbicide threatens manatee immune systems, UF study finds

A new University of Florida study focusing on manatees’ immune systems reveals how glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used herbicide, may threaten manatee health in an environment increasingly impacted by human activities.

“Our research raises important questions about how chemical exposure might influence immune function,” said lead author Maite De Maria, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher who supports the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine.

The researchers collected blood samples from manatees in the wild. They then tested the animals’ blood cells in the lab to determine how the herbicide might influence their immune system responses. The study, published in Environment International, examined lymphocyte, or white blood cell, responses to glyphosate at a range of concentrations found in aquatic environments.

White blood cells act protectively within the body, patrolling the bloodstream for harmful invaders such as bacteria, viruses, or other pathogens, and acting defensively to fight infection.

The researchers found that glyphosate can reduce immune cell activity by more than 27.3%, potentially compromising the threatened species’ ability to fend off disease.

After being listed as an endangered species since 1973, the West Indian manatee, of which the Florida manatee is a subspecies, was reclassified from endangered to threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2017. The Marine Mammal Commission lists the current population estimate at 9,790 manatees. However, over 2,000 manatees died in 2021 and 2022 alone, according to the Save the Manatee organization. While some of those deaths were attributed to traditional causes, such as cold stress and vessel collisions, most were attributed to starvation due to the loss of seagrass, a primary food source of manatees, in Indian River Lagoon and other warm-water estuaries. Poor water quality is believed to be a leading factor in the drastic reduction of seagrass beds.

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