<p id="">President Donald Trump has withdrawn his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for US surgeon general and has instead nominated Dr. Casey Means.</p><p id="">“Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” the president announced in a Truth Social post.</p><p id="">The announcement was celebrated by prominent members of the Make America Healthy Again movement. Dr. Means is a Stanford-educated surgeon and a strong critic of the medical establishment, which she says teaches doctors “how to drug, how to cut, and how to bill.” Along with her brother Calley, who previously worked as a Big Pharma lobbyist, Dr. Means has repeatedly called out the corruption in US public health agencies that has contributed to America’s chronic disease epidemic, such as approving the use of dangerous toxins in food products.</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is President Trump’s new Surgeon General of the United States nominee, Dr. Casey Means, exposing the health industry and woke medical schools for six minutes straight. <br><br>It’s safe to say she is the perfect pick: <a href="https://t.co/JuBKvjrfpC">pic.twitter.com/JuBKvjrfpC</a></p>&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1920226625485988176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">Nesheiwat: An establishment doctor</h2><p id="">Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, on the other hand, faced opposition from many Republicans and MAHA devotees, though Trump only pulled her nomination this week when it became clear she would not have the votes for confirmation. Nesheiwat has drawn fierce criticism for her calls for censorship and aggressive promotion of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines during the pandemic. Referring to the vaccines as “a gift from God” that is “nothing short of miraculous,” she repeatedly urged Americans to take the injections.</p><p id="">In April 2021, Nesheiwat downplayed adverse events from the vaccines despite the absence of long-term data and parroted the government's talking point that “the benefits outweigh the risks.” She also falsely claimed the vaccine stopped transmission of the virus. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only admitted this was false in late July 2021, Nesheiwat could not have made that claim based on scientific data. Pfizer <a href="https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/pfizer-exec-admits-no-data-on-preventing-transmission-before-vaccine-went-to-market" id="">admitted</a> to having no data on the vaccine’s effect on transmission, and even the World Health Organization (WHO) had already <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/04/1089082" id="">said</a> that vaccination was ineffective at stopping the spread of the virus. At the time, the only reason to think the mRNA vaccines stopped transmission was because media pundits and government doctors <a href="https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/reuters-nobody-said-vaccine-would-stop-transmission" id="">said so</a>.</p><p id="">In January 2022, Nesheiwat urged Americans to get the booster shots: “The best way to protect yourself if you haven’t already is to get that vaccine, get that third dose, get the booster. And of course, if you’re in crowded public areas, indoors, wear a mask to protect yourself.”</p><h2 id="">Child vaccinations and masking</h2><p id="">When urging Americans to get vaccinated, Nesheiwat also pushed child vaccination and masking for all children over two years old. When Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo asserted that masks were ineffective at protecting against the virus, Nesheiwat disagreed: “Masks have saved thousands of lives and prevented thousands of infections,” she claimed. Overwhelming <a href="https://www.thegoldreport.com/news/unforgivable-top-mask-researcher-torches-health-expert" id="">scientific evidence</a> shows Ladapo was correct.</p><h2 id="">Pro-censorship</h2><p id="">Although it would later become clear that her claims and recommendations were not based on real scientific data, Nesheiwat urged social media platforms to censor users who challenged them.</p><p id="">“First of all, vaccines save lives,” she told a <em id="">Fox News </em>panel. “And I am so excited, and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for taking action because this [vaccine misinformation] affects everyone. This affects our children, it affects adults . . . it’s about time that they are taking action and I hope and pray that other social media platforms will follow suit and do the same thing.”</p><p id="">Eventually, Nesheiwat appeared to reverse her approach, though she did not apologize for her errors. She criticized the Department of Defense for discharging unvaccinated soldiers and slammed COVID-19 vaccine mandates for kids. In 2023, she wrote on X that “natural immunity is the best protection” and admitted that the vaccine “does not prevent disease.”</p><p id="">Nonetheless, many users took to social media to express their opposition to Nesheiwat’s appointment as US Surgeon General.</p><p id="">“Trump's pick for Surgeon General, Janette Nesheiwat, praised Facebook for censoring ‘anti-vaccine’ sentiment &amp; wanted other companies to do the same. Silencing those raising legitimate concerns about an experimental vaccine is wrong. Shame on her!” wrote physician and America’s Frontline Doctors founder Dr. Simone Gold on X.</p><h2 id="">Julia Nesheiwat: A key globalist insider</h2><p id="">Nesheiwat’s sister, Julia Nesheiwat, is married to Mike Waltz (R-FL), who was recently removed as national security advisor after reportedly causing the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/vance-denies-waltzs-removal-nsa-due-signalgate-calls-his-un-ambassador-nomination-promotion" id="">Signalgate</a> scandal and now awaits confirmation as UN ambassador.&nbsp;</p><p id="">In 2020, Julia served as homeland security advisor, after being appointed a year before as Florida’s first chief resilience officer. She has also been a member of globalist organizations like the World Economic Forum, where she sat on its Global Advisory Council, and is still a distinguished <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/julia-nesheiwat/" id="">fellow</a> with the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. The Atlantic Council is a “think tank” whose board <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/board-of-directors/">includes</a> several former CIA directors and other high-level intelligence officials. <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/shellenberger-testimony.pdf" id="">According</a> to congressional testimony from investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is “one of the most established and influential full-time censorship institutions in the world.”</p><p id="">The Atlantic Council has been <a href="https://frontline.news/post/biden-administration-joins-globalist-billionaires-to-fund-ai-powered-censorship" id="">serving</a> as a coordinating hub between tech giants and the State Department to censor undesirable political views in the US and Europe. In 2018, Facebook <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2018/05/announcing-new-election-partnership-with-the-atlantic-council/" id="">announced</a> an “election partnership” with the Atlantic Council and authorized it to declare which accounts and posts were “election misinformation.”</p><p id="">Julia also served as an international fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a globalist organization that arguably wields more power than the World Economic Forum or the Atlantic Council. Admiral Chester Ward, a former judge advocate general of the US Navy and CFR member for 16 years, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10136396-the-goal-of-the-council-on-foreign-relations-is-world" id="">said</a> the council’s goal is the “submergence of U.S. sovereignty into an all-powerful one-world government.”</p><p id="">“In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as ‘America First’,” added the late admiral.</p><p id="">‍</p>

Trump replaces controversial surgeon general pick with MAHA favorite

The former nominee pushed for censorship and still has access to president's inner circle

<h2 id="">Germany is still confused about democracy</h2><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Germany: Thailand is anti-democratic for banning the largest opposition party.<br><br>Also Germany: Let’s ban the largest opposition party. <a href="https://t.co/KugaLbrbqZ">pic.twitter.com/KugaLbrbqZ</a></p>&mdash; Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) <a href="https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1918692617274978518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">The COVID shot vs. WWII</h2><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">COVID-19 “vaccines” likely killed more Americans than WW1, WW2, and the Vietnam War combined. <br><br>Yet they are still being administered to millions of American babies, children, adults, and the elderly.<br><br>The greatest crime in American history — still happening in plain sight. <a href="https://t.co/pvrl8cKjn3">https://t.co/pvrl8cKjn3</a> <a href="https://t.co/eeDUZ0JPw8">pic.twitter.com/eeDUZ0JPw8</a></p>&mdash; Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) <a href="https://twitter.com/NicHulscher/status/1919058104370544675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">The problem with woke AI</h2><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">American Doctor shows his hospital is using artificial intelligence to create pictures to hang up<br><br>They’re so focused on making sure different races and religions are represented they don’t even notice very obvious medical mistakes <a href="https://t.co/zdbxQ9qX27">pic.twitter.com/zdbxQ9qX27</a></p>&mdash; Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) <a href="https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1919612208348024987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">Boise Dems circumvent a ban on Pride flags</h2><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING — Boise City Council voted to make the Pride Flag an &quot;official city flag,&quot; despite the Idaho House passing HB 96, which bans any flag other than the US flag from being flown on government buildings. <a href="https://t.co/AcEduff5TA">pic.twitter.com/AcEduff5TA</a></p>&mdash; Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liberacrat/status/1920123993845043330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">Pro-Palestine activists: ‘It’s our job to destroy America’</h2><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Temple University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) President Rishi Arun during a Panel Honoring Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal: It Is Our Job to Destroy the U.S.; Samidoun Official Mohammed Khatib: Liberating Palestine Will Help Dismantle America <a href="https://t.co/i3DszQMEzm">pic.twitter.com/i3DszQMEzm</a></p>&mdash; MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) <a href="https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1919740630772633631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">FBI Director Kash Patel hits back at smug congresswoman</h2><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">REP DEAN: &quot;When can I expect the FBI at my door?&quot;<br><br>KASH PATEL: &quot;You know who was targeted by a weaponized FBI? Me. You should read the book.&quot;<br><br>DEAN: &quot;Should we worry more about your memory or your veracity?&quot;<br><br>PATEL: &quot;Your lack of candor. Your accusing me of perjury. Tell the… <a href="https://t.co/mLc60p1uNS">pic.twitter.com/mLc60p1uNS</a></p>&mdash; KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) <a href="https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1920208092060659790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><h2 id="">Columbia has a new response to pro-Palestine occupiers</h2><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING - Democrats are now frantically pleading to be let out of the Columbia library they invaded without showing ID. “Please, please let us out! 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<p id="">By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><p>A National Institutes of Health (NIH) program that health officials claimed reduced the number of infants who died suddenly in their sleep fell victim late last month to <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/">budget cuts</a>, triggering an outcry from some experts and mainstream media.</p>
<p>The 30-year-old “<a href="https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/">Safe to Sleep</a>” campaign was overseen by the NIH communications office at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The program cut was part of the ongoing reorganization and streamlining of the NIH.</p>
<p>The program, which includes TV advertisements, was created to provide guidance to parents about <a href="https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/reduce-risk/reduce">safe sleeping practices</a> for infants. It advises parents to place babies on their back to sleep, use a flat firm sleeping surface, keep the sleeping area clear, use a pacifier, and breastfeed, among other lifestyle interventions. That information will remain available on the website.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-s1-5383871/trump-cuts-baby-safe-to-sleep-team-here-s-what-parents-should-know">North Country Public Radio</a>, <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/the-trump-administration-canceled-a-program-that-reduced-sids-enter-the-anti-vaxxers/">Mother Jones</a> and other mainstream media decried <a href="https://www.thebump.com/news/safe-to-sleep-program-cut">the program’s cancellation</a>.</p>
<p>In an article published May 5, Mother Jones claimed “Safe to Sleep” was responsible for “years of progress in reducing the number of babies that succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).”</p>
<p>The article smeared <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/">Children’s Health Defense</a> (CHD) and others who suggest that the sudden and unexplained <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/health-conditions/">death</a> of thousands of infants each year, often within a few days of vaccination, may in some cases be linked to <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/vaccines-2/">vaccines</a> rather than to sleep hygiene.</p>
<p>However, the <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-plausible-connection-between-vaccines-and-sids/">plausible association</a> between vaccines and SIDS has been reported in peer-reviewed literature for decades.</p>
<p>And research published in top journals has long shown that claims about the success of the “Safe to Sleep” campaign are mistaken. SIDS deaths didn’t go down after the campaign was launched in the 1990s. The deaths were simply categorized differently because of a change to the codes used by medical examiners.</p>
<p><strong>A short history of SIDS in the U.S. </strong></p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513399/">SIDS diagnosis</a> is given when an infant under age 1 dies suddenly, typically during sleep, and an investigation into the death fails to yield a cause. However, 95% of SIDS deaths occur in the first six months of life, peaking at ages 2-4 months.</p>
<p>Each year, the U.S. records<a href="https://blogs.cdc.gov/nchs/2023/11/01/7479/"> more than five infant deaths per 1,000 live births</a>, far exceeding the rates in other high-income countries.</p>
<p>After birth defects and prematurity, SIDS is the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/maternal-infant-health/infant-mortality/index.html">third leading cause of death</a> among infants. Yet the medical industry claims to remain <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/baby/what-causes-sids.html#:~:text=Before%20the%201960s%2C%20healthy%20infants,%2C%20however%2C%20was%20a%20mystery.">puzzled about the cause</a> — similar to how health officials say they don’t know what <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/autism/about/index.html">causes autism</a>.</p>
<p>The SIDS diagnosis didn’t exist until the late 1960s, when the <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/481278#:~:text=The%201969%20definition,in%20Infants%20near%20Seattle%2C%20Wash.">category was created</a> in response to a rise in sudden unexplained infant deaths. In 1971, the World Health Organization’s <a href="https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/classification-of-diseases">International Classification of Diseases</a> (ICD) assigned a code to SIDS.</p>
<p>The ICD is the list of about 130 categories that coroners globally use to assign the cause of death when a baby dies.</p>
<p>In a 2021 article in the peer-reviewed journal <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214750021001268">Toxicology Reports</a>, vaccine researcher <a href="https://www.vacbook.com/">Neil Z. Miller</a> provides a history of the SIDS diagnosis, noting that the rise of SIDS coincided with the first <a href="https://historyofvaccines.org/getting-vaccinated/vaccines-children/development-immunization-schedule">mass immunization campaigns</a>.</p>
<p>In the early 1960s, the number of vaccines administered to most U.S. infants took off. The federal government began appropriating money so the CDC could work with local health departments to vaccinate all children. The agency established the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which makes the recommendations for vaccines to be listed on the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolescent-age.html">childhood immunization schedule</a>.</p>
<p>By the end of the decade, most <a href="https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/science-history/vaccine-history/developments-by-year">U.S. infants were receiving</a> the diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT), polio and measles vaccines, and mumps and rubella vaccines also became available.</p>
<p>As SIDS rates rose, so did parental concern that SIDS was connected to vaccination, but authorities assured parents that unexplained death following vaccination was “merely coincidental,” Miller wrote.</p>
<p>He also said that before 1979, the ICD included cause-of-death classifications associated with &#8220;prophylactic vaccination&#8221; as an official cause of death. As a result, “medical examiners are compelled to misclassify and conceal vaccine-related fatalities under alternate cause-of-death classifications.”</p>
<p>Instead of examining the link between vaccines and SIDS, public health researchers developed a “<a href="https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/about/causes">triple-risk model</a>” for explaining SIDS. That model says SIDS occurs when a baby has an unknown medical condition, it is going through an important period of development where the body changes quickly, and it encounters an outside stressor, such as sleeping on its stomach.</p>
<p><strong>Enter the ‘back to sleep’ campaign</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/safe-sleep/">American Academy of Pediatrics</a> (AAP) in 1992 launched a national “Back to Sleep” campaign to inform parents to have children sleep on their backs rather than on their stomachs.</p>
<p>In 1994, the NIH’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development <a href="https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-s1-5383871/trump-cuts-baby-safe-to-sleep-team-here-s-what-parents-should-know">institutionalized the campaign</a> within the agency, in <a href="https://safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov/campaign/history">partnership with organizations</a> like the AAP, and later, companies including <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/09/28/johnson-johnson-more-lawsuits-baby-powder-cancer-judge-throws-settlement-case/">Johnson &amp; Johnson</a> and <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/baby-food-lawsuits-consolidated-toxic-heavy-metal-contamination/">Gerber</a> — both of which have been sued for poisoning children with their products.</p>
<p>NIH renamed the campaign “Safe to Sleep” in 2012.</p>
<p>Between 1992, when the program was started, and 2001, <a href="https://www.thebump.com/news/safe-to-sleep-program-cut">SIDS deaths reportedly declined</a> a whopping 55% — a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/baby/what-causes-sids.html#:~:text=Before%20the%201960s%2C%20healthy%20infants,%2C%20however%2C%20was%20a%20mystery.">number touted</a> in every article celebrating the program, making it appear that babies sleeping on their stomachs was the cause of SIDS, not vaccines.</p>
<p>However, at the same time deaths from SIDS decreased, the rate of mortality from “suffocation in bed,” “suffocation other,” “unknown and unspecified causes,” and “intent unknown” all increased significantly.</p>
<p>What had happened was that the classification system had changed. SIDS deaths were being reclassified by medical certifiers, usually coroners, as one of the other similar categories, Miller reported.</p>
<p>Research published in the journal <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/115/5/1247/67529/Changes-in-the-Classification-of-Sudden-Unexpected?redirectedFrom=fulltext">Pediatrics</a> — the flagship journal of the AAP — concluded that deaths previously certified as SIDs were simply being certified as other non-SIDS causes, such as suffocation, that were still essentially SIDS deaths.</p>
<p>That change in classification accounted for more than 90% of the drop in SIDS rates.</p>
<p>The Pediatrics paper showed there was no decline in overall postneonatal mortality, despite the program’s — and the AAP’s — claims to the contrary.</p>
<p>Others verified the Pediatrics paper’s findings, and the trend continued, as reported by <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11826207/">multiple studies</a> in <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29440504/">top journals</a>. Miller reported that, for example, “From 1999 through 2015, the U.S. SIDS rate declined 35.8 % while infant deaths due to accidental suffocation increased 183.8%.”</p>
<p>In 2020, infant deaths from Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) — an umbrella category that accounts for both SIDS and other unknown causes began to rise even higher, according to a study published in <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2829642">JAMA Pediatrics</a>.</p>
<p><strong>No codes for vaccine-related sudden deaths</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Paul Thomas, pediatrician and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vax-Facts-Consider-Before-Vaccinating/dp/1636984975/">Vax Facts</a>: What to Consider Before Vaccinating at All Ages &amp; Stages of Life,” told <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/us-infant-mortality-rate-higher-16-countries/">The Defender</a> in an interview last year that extensive evidence<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-plausible-connection-between-vaccines-and-sids/"> links SIDS to vaccination</a>.</p>
<p>Thomas said that because there are no ICD codes for vaccination, the deaths are typically recorded as something else.</p>
<p>“When an infant dies, no matter how soon after vaccination, coroners and pathologists do not have any codes for vaccine-related death available as options, so these deaths are generally coded as SIDS, unknown, or suffocation.”</p>
<p><strong>80% of infant deaths reported VAERS between 1990-2019 happened within 7 days of vaccination</strong></p>
<p>Thomas said pediatricians are not educated about the link, so even when it clearly occurs, they don’t recognize it.</p>
<p>“I was taught that SIDS was due to parents smoking in the room, the room being too hot, babies co-sleeping or sleeping on surfaces that were too soft, or moms smothering their babies while nursing,” he wrote, sharing insights from his new book. “While all these factors may plausibly contribute, the primary cause has been right under our noses for decades. The vaccines!”</p>
<p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34258234/">Miller’s analysis of sudden infant deaths</a> in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showed that nearly 80% of those deaths reported to the system between 1990 and 2019 happened within seven days of vaccination.</p>
<p>A recent peer-reviewed study found a <a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/134233-reaffirming-a-positive-correlation-between-number-of-vaccine-doses-and-infant-mortality-rates-a-response-to-critics#!/">positive statistical correlation between infant mortality rates</a> and the number of vaccine doses received by babies —<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/infant-mortality-vaccine-doses/"> confirming findings</a> made by the same researchers a decade ago.</p>
<p>The 2018 Health Affairs study reported that the bifurcation of the U.S. mortality rates from those of other wealthy countries began in the 1980s — the same time the country saw a major <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6004a9.htm">uptick in childhood vaccination</a>.</p>
<p>A 2023 study published in the <a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/164423-neonatal-infant-and-under-age-five-vaccine-doses-routinely-given-in-developed-nations-and-their-association-with-mortality-rates#!/">Cureus</a> Journal of Medical Science found that the developed nations requiring the most neonatal vaccine doses tend to have the worst childhood mortality rates.</p>
<p>The CDC currently recommends <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-expand-vaccine-schedule-children-pregnant-women/">76 doses of 18 different vaccines</a> for children ages 0-18.</p>
<p>Child mortality researchers have also noted that sudden unexplained childhood deaths in children over 1 year old are often <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2772374">underestimated</a>, and many such child deaths remain <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30035967/">unexplained</a> due to failure to understand or investigate causes.</p>
<p>A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics found that <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sids-study-vaccination-preterm-babies-apnea-risk/">hospitalized preterm infants</a> had a 170% <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2828426">higher incidence of apnea</a> within 48 hours of receiving their routine 2-month vaccinations compared to unvaccinated babies, according to the data in a new study.</p>
<p>Higher infant mortality has also been linked to poor<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/maternal-deaths-mental-health/"> maternal health</a> or other perinatal issues, including premature birth.</p>
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</ul></div><h4 id=""><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/authors/brenda-baletti/" id=""><strong id="">Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.</strong></a></h4><p id="">Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., is a senior reporter for The Defender. She wrote and taught about capitalism and politics for 10 years in the writing program at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in human geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's from the University of Texas at Austin.</p><p id="">‍<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/media-slam-nih-axing-safe-to-sleep-campaign-evidence-program-never-reduced-sids-deaths/" id="">This article was originally published by The Defender</a> — Children’s Health Defense’s News &amp; Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/sign-up/" id=""> subscribing to The Defender</a> or<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/donate/" id=""> donating to Children’s Health Defense</a>.</p>

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<p id="">Multiple Democrat states are targeting homeschooling families with draconian new laws and policies, raising alarm among advocates of parental rights and educational freedom. The escalating attacks on home education are part of a growing and coordinated movement to control, undermine, and eventually end homeschooling, experts warned.</p><p id="">From Minnesota and Illinois to Connecticut and beyond, lawmakers have in recent months been exploiting extremely rare incidents of abuse or neglect as a pretext to target the millions of parents who provide a world-class education for their children outside of state control. It is part of a strategy to bring all children and families under government control.</p><p id="">Just this week, <a href="https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/advocates-express-concerns-as-legislators-discuss-changes-to-homeschooling-rules/" id="">thousands of parents were forced to descend</a> on the state Capitol in Hartford to push back against a major assault. Following a state report calling for more government “protection” of homeschooled children — as if they needed protection from their parents — lawmakers held an “informational hearing” designed to demonize home education.</p><p id="">No legislation has been formally proposed, yet. But bureaucrats, activists, and far-left media outlets such as NBC News seized on the story of a stepmom in Waterbury who allegedly held her stepson captive for two decades to push for more government oversight. Apparently, the stepmother offered “several explanations” to school officials about why she was withdrawing the then-11-year-old victim, including a mention of homeschooling. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p id="">The state’s “Office of the Child Advocate” (OCA) released a report this week calling for more control. Among the policy recommendations: “that the parent and child appear annually to provide enrollment documentation, that the child be independently evaluated annually for academic progress, and that the parent provide initial and periodic assurances that the child is in good health.”</p><p id="">State Senator Ceci Maher, who leads the legislature’s “Committee on Children,” argued it was just about keeping children safe. “What we’re looking at is, how do we thread this needle of keeping children safe and supporting homeschooling,” she was quoted as saying in news reports, with no reference to the appalling conditions faced by so many victims of government schools.</p><p id="">Gov. Ned Lamont, also a Democrat, has echoed calls for more government control of homeschool families. “I’d like to talk with the legislature about ways we can stay in better communication – make sure those kids are being well protected, not just in school, but at homeschool as well,” he said.</p><p id="">Republican lawmakers, though, blasted the exploitation of the highly unusual case as a pretext to regulate all innocent homeschool families. “To respond [to the Waterbury case] by targeting the 40,000 law-abiding families who successfully educate their children at home is misguided, unjust and unfair,” argued State Sen. Jeff Gordon.</p><p id="">Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Steve Harding lambasted the OCA’s proposals for more control and how they were released the same morning as they were going to be discussed in the legislature. “What a disgrace, what a disgrace — what a spit in the face it is to people in this room,” he said.</p><p id="">Separately, homeschoolers in Minnesota are under attack as well. On April 24, the Minnesota Senate approved an amendment that the Home School Legal Defense Association <a href="https://hslda.org/post/minnesota-senate-file-1740-amended-bill-proposes-severe-restrictions" id="">warned</a> would “fundamentally alter the state’s homeschool law.” The new restrictions would be among the “most onerous in the nation,” HSLDA added.</p><p id="">Among the restrictions included in Minnesota’s <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1740&version=latest&session=ls94&session_year=2025&session_number=0&type=" id="">Senate File 1740</a> is a provision to restrict who can educate the children to just parents or legal guardians. Many homeschooling families also include grandparents, uncles, aunts, and other extended family members in the process. The scheme also prohibits homeschooling by a parent convicted of a broad list of crimes, including misdemeanors. &nbsp; </p><p id="">Also alarming is that the measure would restrict home education to a “primary address” in Minnesota. “As any homeschooling parent knows, homeschooling does not exclusively take place at home,” said HSLDA, which represents hundreds of thousands of homeschooling families nationwide. “It can happen on the road, at grandma’s house, at your co-op, or at the park.”</p><p id="">“Limiting homeschooling to a residential address is an antiquated understanding of how homeschooling works, and it eliminates much of the flexibility that makes homeschooling so great,” continued the advocacy group. “This bill would prevent families from taking advantage of that flexibility.” It would also restrict coops, online classes, dual enrollment, and many other options that homeschool families frequently use.</p><p id="">Because it was adopted as an amendment in the Senate, parents did not even have an opportunity to testify. &nbsp;Urging members to push back against the effort with their representatives, HSLDA said there were numerous ways the scheme could be adopted — even if the House does not take it up. One way would be for it to be approved would be in a conference committee.</p><p id="">As The Newman Report <a href="https://www.freedomproject.com/2025/03/21/tnr20250321/" id="">documented in March</a>, lawmakers in Illinois are also pushing hard to impose draconian restrictions on homeschooling families. Under the proposed “Homeschool Act,” homeschool families would be forced to register and provide detailed information to government. Bureaucrats would also be free to investigate parents on a whim, even jailing those who refuse to comply.</p><p id="">And yet, despite the hysteria manufactured by well-funded activists and far-left media outlets, the peer-reviewed research shows homeschooled children are safer than children in government school. Indeed, massive amounts of research and data now exist showing that home-educated children do better on every metric, from safety and academics to socialization and tolerance.</p><p id="">Unfortunately, even in Republican states, homeschooling is in the crosshairs. The attacks are not as blatant, of course. But as government-funded “school choice” programs proliferate, regulation and controls are following. Even strong Republican states with supermajorities such as Florida are facing more and more efforts to impose control on tax-funded homeschoolers and private schools.</p><p id="">At the national level, multiple totalitarian-minded “child advocates” are openly pushing to end home education altogether. Leading the charge is Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet with the “Child Advocacy Project.” In an article for the Arizona Law Review, she openly called for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling.</p><p id="">Her sidekick James Dwyer at William and Mary Law School, meanwhile, has sought to “debunk” the idea of parental rights. Yes, seriously. “The reason that parent-child relationship exists is because the state confers legal parenthood on people through its paternity and maternity laws,” he claimed, apparently oblivious to how that sounds to normal people.</p><p id="">Beyond the powerful but fringe advocates seeking a total assault on the rights of parents to control the education and upbringing of their children, there are also less obvious threats. The “Coalition for Responsible Home Education” (CRHE), for instance, presents itself as a more moderate group merely seeking to “protect” homeschooled children from their parents. But in reality, parents are virtually always the best protectors of children.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image " data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align=""><div id=""><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66450044188dfe741d77c31e/675760085727de303fda4239_3364780_1225x377_2500-1024x315.jpeg" alt="" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">There is a dangerous and powerful effort to have the state usurp all control and responsibility over children from parents — the very people who most love the children, and those who the Bible says are responsible for their upbringing. It is not new, of course. From Adolf Hitler and his National Socialists to Mao Zedong and his Chinese Communist Party or Joseph Stalin and his Soviet regime, the goal is always the same. And the results are always horrific.</p><p id="">Parents must resist this evil like everything depends on stopping it — because it does.</p><p id=""><a href="https://libertysentinel.org/author/admin/" id="">Alex Newman</a> is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, and consultant who co-wrote the book “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.” He writes for diverse publications in the United States and abroad. Originally published at<a href="https://libertysentinel.org/democrat-states-targeting-homeschoolers/"> <em id="">Liberty Sentinel</em></a><em id="">.</em></p>

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