Here’s a heart-breaking story by John R. Platt and Dipika Kadaba of The Revelator. It turns out that 824 Florida manatees died last year, almost 50% more than in 2017.
Those 824 mortalities (deaths) represent 13% of the Florida manatee population, and many of them were caused by people – either directly or indirectly.
The Revelator released a video that goes into more detail about why so many manatees died last year. Click below to watch it, and be sure to visit this link for the original story.
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I hate wasting food, especially when I don’t even get the chance to cook it. I can’t tell you how many half-full cartons of spinach or wilted bunches of basil I’ve thrown out over the years. Instead of storing my leafy greens and herbs in the grocery store packaging, I’m investing in these clever produce savers that promote airflow and prevent shriveling. One user claimed that this OXO herb keeper helps cilantro and parsley stay fresh for “three weeks.” “I was throwing away so much lettuce,” wrote one person who tried the Progressive lettuce container. “Now this keeps it fresh for at least two weeks.” If you can’t handle another container cluttering your cabinets—more on that later—the Debbie Meyer GreenBags do the same thing for 50 cents apiece.
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Blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries are expensive enough without factoring in the amount of berries I toss because they become mushy or grow mold. These berry keepers are better than the clamshell containers the fruit comes in, and some of them, like this one from OXO, even include a colander for storing and washing. One shopper said that before investing in the Rubbermaid FreshWorks set, their strawberries would turn “white with mold,” but now they “hold up beautifully.” Another reviewer said the Freshmage berry containers“double” the lifespan of their fruit.
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PLYMOUTH, MA — Reports indicated that a modern “Underground Railroad” had been established to help the lone black juror from the Lindsay Clancy case escape from angry, violent, white Democrats.
Though shrouded in secrecy, the new Underground Railroad would purportedly use checkpoints along the Atlantic coast to help shepherd the black man away from the thousands of white Northern liberals who have threatened him with violence.
“We’ve got to get him to the South,” said an operative, on condition of anonymity. “He’ll be safe if he can just get below that Mason-Dixon line. The Republicans won’t let anyone touch him. It’s not going to be easy, though. There are mobs of bloodthirsty white liberals all over the North, looking for a lynching. And the feminists. Dear Lord, the feminists. He’s secure right now, but we’ve got our work cut out for us.”
Volunteers had reportedly prepared to hide the juror in houses, church basements, and Chick-fil-A stockrooms along the escape route. “We’ve got our people looking out for any sign of danger, like a shirt saying ‘Love Is Love’ or ‘Believe All Women,'” explained a pastor working the trail. “It’s a little different direction from the old Railroad, but it’s still black people fleeing angry white Democrats who want to do them harm and force them to do their bidding. Some things never change, I guess.”
At publishing time, the juror had reportedly made it safely across the Pennsylvania border after narrowly escaping a mob carrying “BE KIND” signs.
James Zumwalt
A 1958 statement by Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. noted the point in time when a person’s true moral character emerges. “The ultimate measure of a man,” he said, “is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
There is no finer hour to remember King’s quote than that in which the judge in the Lindsay Clancy case was forced to declare a mistrial. After seven days of deliberation, a unanimous verdict could not be reached due to a single juror holdout.
Clancy, a 36-year old mother, strangled her three small children, aged 5, 3, and eight months, on January 24, 2023. Suggesting premeditation was the fact she had sent her husband to pick up take out food while she conducted the crimes. She, however, raised an insanity defense, linked to post-partum depression and psychosis, arguing she was not criminally responsible.
A psychologist testifying for the prosecution disagreed with the defense, saying Clancy had “moral awareness” at the time she murdered her children.
King would be proud of this lone juror holdout, not because he happened to be black, but because he refused to be intimidated by other jurors who clearly allowed their emotions to drive their judgement. The pressure he faced from them was observable from the post-mistrial interviews given by some. One inexcusably doxxed the lone juror, identifying him as the only black male member of the jury (composed of nine women and three men).
Following the doxxing, critics and a leftist news media have disparaged him, claiming he should not have been on the jury due to allegations of domestic violence against him. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has criticized the media for hitting a new low by failing to protect a juror’s identity in a controversial case.
We will never know whether Clancy’s physical condition had any sway with the jury. Immediately after killing her children, she slashed her wrists and neck, then jumped out a second story window. The jump paralyzed her, confining her to a wheelchair.
Three female jurors who gave interviews reported the lone juror frustrated them. They claimed he was “very arrogant” and “completely disregarded” the expertise. One female juror shockingly said, “He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.” Apparently, these three women had no similar problem as they were easily able to ignore that Clancy had “viciously killed” them.
These jurors have also now outrageously bragged about ignoring the judge and ridiculously claimed the prosecution was biased. This shows complete ignorance of the prosecution’s responsibilities. The fact that Clancy’s actions in going online to search how long she could expect her husband to be gone to pick up the food so she could commit the crimes was a more appropriate focus for the jurors—not the failure of a prosecution to show compassion.
How could the jurors give Clancy a free pass for being unable to determine right from wrong when she was able to execute pre-planned steps to commit the murders? Incredulously, they claim it was because no witnesses said anything bad about her, all testifying that she was a loving mother.
Also outrageous was the admission that jurors listened to the opinions of nurses on the jury who shared their expertise concerning toxicological impact—something that is absolutely verboten. The only testimony to be considered is that introduced in court. The jurors were specifically told this by the judge beforehand. Yet these juror interviewees suggest it was the lone juror who failed to abide by the rule of law.
National polls are disappointing: only a large minority (49%) believe Clancy is guilty of murder, 19% say she is not guilty and 32% are unsure.
It is hard to believe the national reaction to Clancy’s murder of her children has been so mixed. Some of her supporters perhaps fall within the category of the ill-informed as evidenced by a black female activist named “Black Barbie.” Initially supportive, she later publicly announced she failed to understand all the circumstances, only learning later that Clancy was rich, privileged, had child care assistance, and was not a suffering mother unable to get help.
The murder of three children has apparently done little to dissuade donations, as a fund set up for Clancy by her parents raised more than $1 million for them to attend her trial.
Additionally, as often occurs when a crime gets such national attention, copycat criminals are feared. Such is the case of a mother alleged to have hanged her two-year old son in the basement of her home, with many claiming she was inspired by Clancy given her “obsession” with the case.
An article published in the aftermath of the Clancy mistrial decision is intriguing. It is written by a female attorney who chastises these female jurors. Laura Hollis says what others fear to say. In so doing, she honors King’s quote as well. The title of her piece clearly reveals her focus, “The Rule of Law Cannot Be Based Upon ‘Feelings’.”
Hollis quotes one female juror who verbalized her mission on the jury as including, “to make it better for other women in the future…Justice for those children,” and ensuring what happened never happens again. Hollis notes this:
Those are manifestly incorrect statements…Making things ‘better for other women’ was not their job. Nor was it their job to make sure that Clancy ‘gets the help she needs.’ Their job — their only job — was determining whether Clancy knew right from wrong when she committed those acts. That — not some notion of female activism — was what ‘justice for those children’ demanded.
Hollis adds about their outing of the lone juror,
[He] has since been under vicious and relentless attack on traditional and social media. That juror made his decision based on his evaluation of the evidence. He decided that Clancy knew what she was doing and was therefore guilty. He had that right, just as any juror in a criminal case does.
Hollis chastises the jurors for discussing “their feelings” which are totally “irrelevant.” She wrote,
If a jury’s verdict is based not upon what the law is but upon ‘feelings,’ then the result in any given case will depend on whose (sp) deciding the case and how you can make them ‘feel,’ not on the facts and what the law requires.
What eleven jurors in the Clancy case did was to open up a Pandora’s Box of a new “feel good” law. Obviously not a chauvinist, Hollis makes a thoughtful conclusion as a female attorney of 40 years:
I now find myself wondering whether women are cut out for decision-making roles in the legal profession — serving as judges or on juries — because distressingly large numbers appear to be unable (or unwilling) to put their personal feelings aside and decide the case according to what the law is — not ‘to send a message,’ to ‘show compassion’ or ‘to make things better for all women.’
Tragically, by their actions and interviews, these female jurors have done nothing, neither to balance the scales of justice nor to promote sex equality.
Jeannie DeAngelis
In December 1972, the Helen Reddy tune “I Am Woman” became a No. 1 hit. Remember the words: “But I’m still an embryo. With a long, long way to go. Until I make my brother understand.”
Ironically, only a few weeks later, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade.
That Monday was a great day for liberated women, but not so great a day for fetuses. That dark day, a Supreme Court decision gave women unilateral power to determine how many children a man could have and, henceforth, their “choice” alone would dictate the size of a family.
In that moment, men, although they might not have realized it at the time, became harnessed to deferential docility and, whether they liked it or not, subservience to the demands, impulses, and guiles of domineering feminist types—enlightened women whose thanks for a man’s contribution to the reproductive process was to leave powerless sperm donors’ offspring at the bottom of a hazardous waste container.
The modern feminist movement grew out of the idea that women should be treated as fully autonomous adults, but somehow, when women are held to account for their own deliberate actions, anyone who questions, accuses, or denies what is right is considered misogynist, anti-woman, and, worst of all, eventually blamed for things the culpable simply refuse to take responsibility for.
This contradiction is easy to see.
Accountability should come with autonomy, but for a certain group of adult females, that doesn’t seem to be the case. When not out there “roaring,” progressive women morph into accusers whenever they’re called to take responsibility for their less-than-ladylike or, worse yet, criminal actions.
Then, if a woman freely acknowledges that she committed the act, female defenders, “in numbers too big to ignore,” come out of the shadows to argue in a woman’s defense, stress that she’s mistaken, and look for any excuse to deflect blame from said woman to the men from whom they’ve spent more than half a century demanding liberation and over whom they’ve asserted autonomy.
There are oodles of female-liberation slogans being thrown around in every venue, but when accountability for what that liberty has afforded supposedly “strong” and “invincible” women comes up, throngs of free-thinking girl folk put on their fighting gear and become defenders of poor, pitiful victims confined to “You can bend, but never break me” self-imposed wheelchairs.
The trend right now seems to be that a woman can admit to the act, but her female defenders deflect to multiple men for various reasons, making the men culpable based solely on maleness while exonerating the feminine offender.
Let’s not forget that this is easy for these women—the icons of grace, dignity, peace, love, and kindness—who, for more than five decades, have willingly handed their own flesh and blood over to first-, second-, and third-trimester executioners.
This group of humans, since 1973, has spent decades deflecting their own remorse and has even chosen to make excuses for a woman on trial for murdering her children because failing to do so might stir up raw emotions long suppressed and better off forgotten. After all, Lindsay Clancy did what millions upon millions of women did and continue to do, only in a different phase of their babies’ life cycles.
What better cause than one where a woman admits that she committed a brutal act, but rather than accepting the truth that came right from her mouth and risking a confrontation with their own moral depravity, women choose not to believe what she freely confessed to and instead choose to blame the man who lost the three children his wife’s decision allowed him to have, and then unilaterally took away.
In some people’s minds, that sequence of events is entirely his fault because she’s unable to assume responsibility.
Clearly, we are in the midst of a hard-fought, misguided cultural narrative, supposedly built around female strength, that then goes on to deny women the very agency it claims to defend. But that is not the worst of it. After redefining a strong woman as weak, based on the circumstances, it then projects the reason for that acquired weakness squarely onto men—men whose seed became disposable at the whim of a liberated being who fought for decades to wrest control of the final result of a reproductive process that’s now reached beyond the womb.
The world was confronted with Lindsay Clancy, a woman who admittedly was “down there on the floor,” strangling her children. Meanwhile, her dutiful husband was out doing her bidding. He came home with a Mediterranean Power Bowl and MiraLAX to find his daughter and two sons dead, and his supposedly “invincible” wife, after hurling herself out of a window, lying out in the snow with hypothermia and a broken back.
Three years later, at her trial for first-degree murder, after admitting that she killed her children, the cult of female defenders “standing toe to toe” decided that Patrick was to blame for the deaths. And if not for the deaths directly, then for not coddling a woman who feminists would otherwise argue is self-sufficient and who “can face anything.”
Patrick Clancy is now in a dangerous position where liberated, pink-T-shirted women, looking for someone other than a woman to blame, may defend vigilantes, feeling justified on behalf of women everywhere in retaliating by pulling a Luigi Mangione stunt while Mr. Clancy strolls around New York City with his new wife.
Is this a devilish dichotomy or what? The mistrial is over, and women are still pointing fingers at her husband.
It will be interesting to watch the outcry after Patrick’s 60 Minutesinterview airs, when his looks, his demeanor, how many times he blinks, and his new wife are presented as proof in Girl Court confirming his guilt.
Now, the female defenders of Lindsay Clancy, some of whom wanted Patrick to be tried, convicted, and drawn and quartered, were up in arms because one lone male juror forced a mistrial by refusing to submit to demands from the nine female jurors and the two male jurors (who may themselves have been dominated by feminine pressure to agree to a finding that Clancy was not criminally responsible. Isn’t that how the justice system is supposed to work?
Follow the bouncing ball. Lindsay admitted to strangling her three children. She went to trial. Her deeply distraught husband was called as a witness. The women who supported Lindsay judged that he was to blame, either literally or emotionally. After the trial, women with “deepened conviction” in their souls then shifted blame toward the one male juror who refused to absolve her of her criminal responsibility. And then—to add insult to injury—during the deliberation process, another male, this time the judge, refused the “feminist icon’s“ defense lawyer’s attempt to remove that juror.
And therein lies the irony: if, from 1973 forward, women demand to be treated as fully self-governing adults, with ultimate control over life and death, why would holding them responsible for deliberate actions suddenly be defined as anti-woman? And why do men become culpable for the actions of women who, when not being called to be accountable for much of anything, continue to pride themselves on being independent?
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A rare dog disease with a high death rate has now reached 337 confirmed UK cases, and the season when most dogs get sick has begun.
Veterinary groups describe Alabama rot, also called cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy, as a serious disease that can lead to kidney failure and death. The Royal Veterinary College reports hundreds of confirmed cases since 2012 and says the cause is still unknown. British Veterinary Association guidance points to a clear seasonal pattern, with most diagnoses between November and May, which is why owners get fresh alerts each winter and spring. The risk to people is not reported; this is a dog health issue.
Clinical signs often start as small skin sores on legs, paws, belly, or muzzle. Some dogs then develop lethargy, vomiting, thirst changes, and signs tied to kidney injury. Vets stress speed. Early testing of blood and urine can catch kidney trouble before it is too late. When dogs reach acute kidney injury, survival drops fast. The Royal Veterinary College notes that there is no single proven cure, so care focuses on support and rapid escalation when needed.
Royal Veterinary College data show more than 318 confirmed deaths through early 2024, with media and veterinary updates reporting a steady climb since 2012. Reported cases are “confirmed” after a post-mortem exam. That means the known count skews toward fatal outcomes and undercounts dogs that survive or never get tested at that level. Studies describe a strong seasonal pattern and a spread from early clusters, like the New Forest, to many regions across England over time. These are small numbers in a large dog population, but the fatality risk makes each alert matter.
Owners should treat the disease as rare but deadly. That balance fits common sense and conservative values: respect real risk, avoid panic, and act early to protect family and property—in this case, your dog. Veterinary researchers keep pushing for clearer answers on triggers, spread, and best care protocols. Until the cause is known, practical steps and fast response remain the best defense.
Daily habits can cut risk and buy time. Check your dog’s legs, paws, and underside after muddy walks. Rinse and dry well. Note any new sores, swelling, or redness. Watch for fatigue, vomiting, less appetite, or changes in urination. Call your vet the same day if you see these signs. Share where you walked and when symptoms began. That detail helps vets judge risk, run labs quickly, and decide on referral to a specialty hospital if needed.
Plan routes with cleaner paths during peak months. Keep dogs from drinking from stagnant pools. Bring fresh water. If your pet gets a wound, clean it and keep it covered outside. None of these steps guarantee safety, because experts still do not know the cause. But they are low-cost and low-risk. The Royal Veterinary College has reported that some advanced treatments, including blood plasma exchange, have helped select dogs when used early in specialized centers. That window closes fast, which makes the first phone call to your vet vital.
General practice vets start with a focused exam and quick blood and urine tests. If results suggest kidney injury along with skin sores, vets may start fluids, pain control, antibiotics for secondary infections, and anti-nausea care. They might refer to a hospital that can support acute kidney injury. Specialists can add dialysis-type support or plasma exchange in rare, carefully chosen cases. The Royal Veterinary College has documented a few full recoveries with plasma exchange, but success is not guaranteed and capacity is limited.
The country is again in the months when most cases appear. Alabama rot is rare, but it kills many dogs it hits. Focus on fast checks, clean-up after walks, and early vet contact for any sores plus sickness signs. Ask your vet about risks in your area and what to watch for this season. This approach respects the facts: small numbers, high stakes, and a disease that still defies a simple cause-and-cure story.
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Before you cook up that omelet for breakfast, take note. Eggs are being recalled in California and Vermont because of two separate Salmonella outbreaks.
The recalls are unrelated to the massive Midwest Poultry Services egg recall from July, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified as a Class I recall—the agency’s highest risk level—last month.
On September 11, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a warning to consumers and businesses not to eat, serve, or sell the Happy Hens brand of in-shell eggs. The reason for the warning is an outbreak of salmonella that’s sickened 23 members of the public to date.
Seven people have been hospitalized, and illnesses so far were reported from June 21 through August 16. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found during a routine inspection of the Happy Hens farm that two spaces housing poultry tested positive for salmonella, and subsequently matched the same strain of salmonella that made these people sick.
On September 8, Happy Hens began a voluntary recall of the affected eggs, which had been sent to restaurants, grocery stores, and farmers’ markets in Southern California and the California Central Coast. The eggs were also available for purchase at the Happy Hens farm in Ramona, CA.
If you bought the eggs, throw them away; you can also bring them back to where you purchased them for a full refund. If you see the recalled eggs for sale, the CDPH asks you to call the CDPH Complaint Hotline at (800) 495-3232 or submit an electronic report to CDPH’s Food and Drug Branch.
Also on September 11, the State of Vermont Agency of Agriculture and Markets issued a release announcing that Leaping Bear Farm of Reading, VT, is recalling its chicken eggs in cartons dated from June 1, 2026, to September 5, 2026. The reason for this recall is potential salmonella contamination.
Vermont health officials have linked 14 Salmonella illnesses to eggs from Leaping Bear Farm.
According to a published report, 14 cases of salmonella have been linked so far to Leaping Bear Farm’s location.
The egg cartons bear the Leaping Bear Farm logo and are labeled as Grade A Pasture Raised Organic Eggs. The recalled products were sold at:
If you have the eggs, put them in the trash—don’t compost them. Wash all surfaces and items that the eggs have touched with hot, soapy water, or wash items in the dishwasher. If you have questions, you can call Leaping Bear Farm at 520-345-1906.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), salmonella bacteria can cause symptoms including:
You should contact your health care provider if:
Certain people, like the elderly, kids under 5, and those with compromised immune systems, are more likely to get seriously ill from a salmonella infection. Don’t take any chances—monitor how you feel, and get medical help right away if you need it.
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Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban over-the-counter Infants’ Tylenol from the market and require boxed warnings on acetaminophen products for children under 6.
CHD on Monday filed a Citizen Petition with the FDA, arguing that growing scientific evidence links Tylenol to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). CHD is urging the public to submit comments on the petition.
“To be blunt, for infants and young children, there is no safe dose of Tylenol products and, most particularly, there is no safe dose for neonates and infants under two,” the petition said.
Despite evidence of harm, “parents and doctors are not warned that Tylenol products pose a risk of ASD for infants and young children who take the drug even when administered in the recommended dosage,” the petition states.
The CHD petition outlines the science behind the claim that a significant portion of autism cases are the result of a chemically induced injury caused by exposure to acetaminophen in infancy and early childhood in children who are biologically susceptible because of genetic, metabolic or environmental factors affecting how they process the drug.
CHD is calling on the FDA to:
“Boxed warnings” are the FDA’s most serious warning label, used to indicate that a drug is associated with a serious hazard, often including death or life-threatening reactions.
“The evidence regarding neurological damage done by perinatal and postnatal use of acetaminophen is very clear as is a strong relationship with autism incidence, especially when used following vaccine administration,” CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker, one of the petition’s signatories, said.
“Acetaminophen has never been appropriately tested for neurological harm in infants and small children and many of these individuals lack the capacity to appropriately detoxify this very widely used over-the-counter drug.”
A Citizen Petition is a formal request to the FDA to take regulatory action. Citizen Petitions, typically submitted by an organization, require extensive documentation of the issue and the legal basis for the claim.
Read the full petition and cover letter here.
Babies have reduced ability to detoxify acetaminophen
Acetaminophen, the ingredient found in hundreds of prescription and over-the-counter medicines — including Tylenol products — is routinely recommended for fever reduction and the relief of mild to moderate pain.
Pregnant women commonly take it, and it is often given to young children.
Although it is often given to children under age 2, Tylenol doesn’t provide a recommended dosage, instead directing consumers to ask their doctor. “This sets up a dangerous scenario for potential overdosing since a prescription is not necessary for purchase,” the petition stated.
More than 600 prescription and over-the-counter medications contain acetaminophen, according to the FDA.
The drug has long been linked to liver toxicity, and several studies over the last decade — including one published last year by researchers at Harvard Medical School — have found that children exposed to the drug during pregnancy may be more likely to develop neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.
The Citizen Petition to the FDA incorporated research by William Parker, Ph.D., who worked as a researcher at Duke University for decades and today heads the WPLab.
Parker has spent more than a decade studying the effect of acetaminophen combined with oxidative stress on neurodevelopment, and published that research in top journals. He is the author of “Tylenol and Autism: Evidence, Scientific Blunders, and Medicine Gone Wrong.”
Parker’s research has shown that newborns and young infants have immature metabolic pathways that reduce their ability to detoxify acetaminophen, potentially increasing production of a toxic liver byproduct known as NAPQI. This biological vulnerability is greatest shortly after birth and gradually decreases until about age 6.
The petition describes “31 lines of evidence,” which, taken together, support that conclusion.
The evidence includes studies of acetaminophen metabolism, animal experiments, epidemiologic research and clinical observations that CHD says collectively demonstrate a causal relationship between acetaminophen exposure and autism.
According to the petition, existing warnings focus primarily on liver toxicity while failing to inform parents and healthcare providers about what the petitioners describe as neurodevelopmental risks.
President Donald Trump warned last year that pregnant women should not take Tylenol, and the FDA announced that it will add safety warnings to labels on products containing acetaminophen. Those warnings have not been implemented.
The key difference in this petition is that it doesn’t focus on pregnancy. The petition argues for labeling that distinguishes between prenatal exposure and exposure after birth.
According to the petition, many studies report associations between frequent acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism. However, the greatest risk occurs after delivery, when newborns no longer benefit from maternal metabolism of the drug and have limited ability to process it themselves.
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‘Scientific blunders’ obscured connection between Tylenol and autism
The authors also criticize several recent epidemiological studies that found little or no association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and autism after statistical adjustment.
They argue those analyses improperly treated biological factors related to oxidative stress as confounding variables rather than part of the mechanism by which acetaminophen could contribute to autism risk.
Parker told The Defender the petition “deals very incisively with key scientific blunders responsible for obscuring the connection between acetaminophen and autism in the minds of many.”
Until now, a single line of evidence the petition calls “easily misconstrued” — one that concluded no risk between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and ASD — has dominated the discussion about the drug’s link to autism overall.
The petition provides an extensive analysis of errors in that line of thinking, and outlines countervailing evidence from many other studies that the petitioners argue provide sufficient evidence for concern.
CHD contends that waiting for definitive randomized clinical trials would be both impractical and unethical because, if the petition’s interpretation of the evidence is correct, intentionally exposing infants to the drug would pose unacceptable risks.
Instead, CHD urges regulators to apply the precautionary principle and act before definitive proof of causation becomes available.
The FDA will review the petition and determine whether regulatory action is warranted based on the available scientific evidence. It must typically respond within 150-180 days.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 31 U.S. children born in 2014 were diagnosed with ASD in 2022, and the numbers are rising dramatically.
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Forty-seven animals, including 37 dogs, some of them still nursing puppies, were pulled from a Tennessee property tied to a so-called animal rescue and sanctuary. Investigators found dogs living in waste-filled pens, ammonia levels in the home high enough to make breathing dangerous, and the remains of animals who never made it out. One rescued turkey was so severely injured that veterinarians had no choice but to euthanize it. This wasn’t a rescue. It was a property where animals were left to suffer while donations meant to help them kept coming in.
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Rescuers who arrived described dogs so broken by neglect that they stood frozen and unresponsive, like statues, until they were finally bathed and cared for. Exams revealed dehydration, malnutrition, untreated infections, and parasites across nearly every animal recovered. The people responsible presented themselves publicly as saviors for animals in need, all while the animals in their own care were left to starve, suffer, and in some cases, die.
A lifetime ban on owning or caring for animals would ensure these people never have access to another vulnerable animal again. Mandatory mental health counseling addresses whatever led to this level of neglect, offering a real path toward accountability instead of leaving the door open for it to happen again under a different name.
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Survivors (Joanne Capestro with her co-worker) from the 87th Floor of the World Trade Center (North Tower) wandering in the dust after the collapse of the South Tower, New York City, September 11, 2001.
They had been working on the 87th floor of the North Tower when the first plane struck, trapping them high above Manhattan. Somehow, they made it down 87 flights of stairs and out into the street just as the South Tower fell, a wall of dust, debris, and darkness swallowing lower Manhattan.
Covered head to toe in ash, their faces blank with disbelief, they became one of the most enduring images of survival from that day. Photographer Phil Penman captured the scene, freezing a moment when New Yorkers, strangers minutes earlier, clung to one another for strength.
For Capestro, the image would come to symbolize resilience and second chances — a reminder of the thin line between life and loss.
Fifteen years after the attacks, Joanne Capestro reunited with the photographer at the opening of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where this photo now hangs.
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