By Children's Health Defense Team

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently sat down with boxing legend Mike Tyson and former NFL offensive tackle Eben Britton for a segment of the Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson podcast.

By Sujata S. Gibson, Esq. 

On Monday, September 21st, attorneys on behalf of Children’s Health Defense and named plaintiffs filed a response in Jane Doe, et. al v. Howard Zucker et. al to the New York Department of Health’s motion to dismiss. The lawsuit challenges NYS policies and procedures that unconstitutionally restrict medically vulnerable children from getting necessary medical exemptions from licensed physicians.   

The Court will review the papers and alert the parties if oral arguments are necessary. In the meantime, attorneys will be arguing for a preliminary injunction to stop the state or individual school districts from overruling treating physicians pending the outcome of the case.

By Rachana Pradhan, NBC News

Most Americans have never heard of Dr. Richard Whitley, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Yet as the coronavirus pandemic drags on and the public eagerly awaits a vaccine, he may well be among the most powerful people in the country.

Whitley leads a small, secret panel of experts tasked with reviewing crucial data on the safety and effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines that U.S. taxpayers have helped fund, including products from Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and others. The data and safety monitoring board — known as a DSMB — is supposed to make sure the medicine is safe and it works. It has the power to halt a clinical trial or fast-track it.

By Peter Loftus, Wall Street Journal

A federal vaccine advisory committee will put off a vote on recommending who should get initial limited doses of any Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. until committee members learn more about the vaccines that could become available first . . . The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of external medical experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was initially expected to vote at a meeting Tuesday on a plan to give priority to initial doses of any Covid-19 vaccine that passes muster in clinical trials.

By Liza Gross, New York Times

Nikki Aldrich can’t talk about what happened in their bucolic riverside village without crying. “She lets me do the talking,” said her mother, Loreen Hackett.

Hackett and her daughter’s family live in Hoosick Falls, New York, where residents learned in 2016 that for years — including while Aldrich was carrying her first two children — they’d been drinking water contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, a toxic chemical that a local factory once used to make Teflon products.

The Detox Project

The Detox Project released the first ever data on the Glyphosate Residue Free certification market on Tuesday, after reviewing Q2 2020 data provided by their exclusive data partners SPINS.

SPINS, which is the leading provider of data and insights for the natural, organic and specialty products industry, revealed through their data that the Glyphosate Residue Free certification market has reached USD $204 Million, an increase of 58.2% year on year.

By Tom Simonite, Wired

[CHD Note: The first big U.S. city to prohibit private businesses from using facial recognition technology reflects rising skepticism of new tools and concerns about fairness... This month, Portland adopted the nation’s most restrictive laws on face recognition, banning private as well as government use of the technology.]

The new rules originated in part from a small city office called Smart City PDX that has sought to redefine the buzzword it is named for.