WHO Radio-Frequency Radiation Cancer Study is "Seriously Flawed." Scientists conclude the review does not assure wireless safety, and should not be used to set public policy. icbe-emf.org/scientists-call…

Six months after vaccination, FluMist recipients still had flu-specific memory B cells in the upper airway—responses absent after a standard flu shot and invisible in blood alone. @sciencetm medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it. The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state. What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it. Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure. In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

For the first time in more than 25 years, the FDA has approved a new active ingredient for over-the-counter sunscreens. It clears the way for manufacturers to begin using bemotrizinol, or BEMT, an ingredient that's been used in Europe and Asia since the 1990s. @IAmAmnaNawaz discussed why this change took so long and what people should know about it with dermatologist Dr. Rachel Nazarian.

⚽Game on! Before you dig into snacks at the stadium this summer, make sure to wash your hands first. Germs can easily spread in crowded places and on high-touch surfaces. Clean hands are your best defense! Get more food safety facts: cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCD… #WorldCup

Thousands of bottles of the antidepressant duloxetine have been recalled because they contain levels of a potentially cancer-causing impurity above federal safety limits, according to a notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read more: abcnews.link/WUDOBwd

A review of 22 studies found no clear evidence that naturally occurring trans fats in dairy products increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, cardiovascular death, or type 2 diabetes. Unlike industrially produced trans fats, which do increase the risk! ow.ly/aWjz50Z8re2

#Ocean "Supreme stupidity" is no exaggeration: Destroying the Ocean Observatories Initiative would be a momentous act of harm to US interests. Senators are now fighting back, and have written to the NSF to reverse course on its plan. In their letter, the senators cited the approaching El Niño – a periodic Pacific warming that disrupts weather patterns and supercharges marine heat waves – as evidence the cuts are particularly ill-timed. “The loss of this deep-water observation system would threaten our ability to prepare for and monitor future El Niño events,” they wrote, warning coastal communities, fishermen and emergency responders would be left without crucial information. “In a time of strained resources, the NSF is wasting time and money to destroy its own scientific infrastructure.” My team of marine scientists use data from the OOI regularly and it is complete nonsense to suggest that there is any other system in place which can match its capabilities.

Breaking News: The Trump administration took its most aggressive steps to dismantle the Education Department by breaking away key programs for disabled students and the enforcement of civil rights laws in schools. nyti.ms/4uQ7TK0

No, there isn't science to back it up. A new @nature feature on the billionaires biohacking for longevity, by @stokel nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

RT @PeterHotez: As I’ve said consistently for several years now, one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your…

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 — strokes, heart attacks, and hospitalization from heart disease — by about 40 percent, according to new research. wapo.st/43EOal9

The Silent Auction of Childhood How an obscure 62-word clause (Section 704) turned the FCC into America’s most dangerous child-trafficking ring. The FCC traffics in the health of our children by selling unsafe parts of nature’s EM spectrum to externalize the cost of wireless technology onto our children’s health for shareholder profits, while our children sit in their homes and schools. Prologue 465 Feet Every weekday at 8 a.m. my seven-year-old daughter shoulders her backpack and walks into a first-grade classroom that sits 465 feet from a three-sector cell tower. The BioInitiative Report warns that 1,500 feet should be the absolute minimum between children and high-power antennas, yet federal law bars me—or any local official—from invoking health to move that tower one inch. Why? Because in 1996 the Clinton White House slipped a corporate wish-list called Section 704 into the Telecommunications Act. Those 62 words gag every mayor, school board, and parent who dares mention “environmental [health] effects.” The result is a grotesque inversion of duty: the federal government auctions microwave real estate to the highest bidder while parents watch their kids absorb the profit. If taking a child’s body and selling it were slavery, taking a child’s biology and selling it is chemical slavery on a wireless leash. Both are trafficking. One just wears a necktie. Section 704—The Original Sin On February 8, 1996, industry CEOs crowded the Library of Congress as President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act. Hidden in the bill was Section 704, which pre-empts any state or city from rejecting a tower “on the basis of environmental effects of radio-frequency emissions.” From that moment forward, the decision about whether a 150-foot monopole looms over a playground became the sole purview of the FCC—an agency of spectrum auctioneers with no medical mandate. Section 704 did more than silence local voices; it cemented a federal monopoly on risk. Fiber-optic backbones and Li-Fi could have met demand without irradiating classrooms, but Wall Street needed a quick return. By gagging health objections, Congress guaranteed wireless build-out at maximum speed and minimum liability—an unconstitutional taking of parental rights masquerading as commerce. When you criminalize the very act of defending your child’s body, the state itself commits the crime. Follow the Money—Lobbyists, Wall Street … Even Epstein No mystery cloaks this capture; the receipts are public. The CTIA and Big Telecom poured tens of millions into campaign coffers throughout the 1990s, and the door between K Street, the FCC, and the West Wing spun so fast it blurred. Financiers like Jeffrey Epstein cultivated deep ties with presidents, cabinet officials, and even Harvard scientists. His infamous salon illustrates the machinery of policy capture: money buys proximity; proximity writes law; law mints profit. The victims are invisible—children whose legal guardians have been legislated into silence. This is not moral outrage for its own sake; it is the operating manual of corruption. Replace “telecom” with “tobacco” or “opioids” and the pattern is identical—except RF radiation reaches every crib in the country. The 30-Year Science Blackout Today’s FCC “safety” limits were written when pagers were hot tech and toddlers did not stream cartoons on iPads. In 2021 the D.C. Circuit Court excoriated the agency for ignoring thousands of studies on non-thermal harm and ordered a do-over. ehtrust.org Four years later, the rewrite remains in limbo because no White House has forced the issue. When a federal court calls your science obsolete and you shrug, that is not negligence—it is malfeasance. The Oval Office owns that omission. Killing the Messenger—How NTP Research Was Muzzled The taxpayer-funded National Toxicology Program (NTP) spent $30 million proving “clear evidence” that phone-level RF causes heart schwannomas and DNA breaks in rats. National Toxicology Program Logic demanded follow-up work on 5 G and on children’s physiology. Instead, in January 2024 the NIEHS quietly announced it was ceasing all RF studies, despite a statutory duty under Public Law 90-602 to maintain continuous radiation research. ehtrust.org Silencing inconvenient science while towers multiply is the bureaucratic twin of burning medical records in a pandemic. The Biological Toll—What the Data Already Show Brain & CNS Tumors Incidence has climbed in cohorts born after the wireless boom, tracking latency periods typical for solid tumors. Mechanisms include oxidative stress and blood–brain-barrier leakage. Male Fertility Collapse  Meta-analyses find significant drops in motility and DNA integrity among RF-exposed men; laboratory thresholds for “normal” sperm have been revised downward twice in the past decade. Neurodevelopmental Disorders  Oxidative‐stress pathways activated by pulsed RF overlap those implicated in ADHD and autism spectrum disorders. Hemodynamics  x.com/rfsafe/status/19160622… A 2024 ultrasound study captured real-time rouleaux formation (red-blood-cell clumping) in a healthy volunteer after five minutes of passive smartphone exposure—thickening blood like syrup in a straw. NIEHS None of these effects are addressed by thermal-only FCC rules. Children, whose skulls are thinner and whose stem cells divide furiously, absorb proportionally more energy than the adult male “phantom” used to draft those limits. The policy pre-emption that shoves a tower beside a swing set thus shares the moral DNA of asbestos in elementary ceilings—except asbestos could be removed. The SAR Mirage The FCC still certifies phones by Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), a metric that assumes heat is the only hazard. It ignores: Non-thermal triggers—blood viscosity, DNA breaks, calcium-channel disruption. Idle emissions—phones pulse even when you’re not on a call. Child physiology—standards are based on a 6-foot, 200-lb adult. A safety test that excludes the dominant exposure scenario (a streaming phone in a child’s hand) is not science; it is theater. Safer Roads We Abandoned While regulators napped, engineers built alternatives: Li-Fi—gigabit data over light waves, already field-tested in classrooms. Fiber-to-the-desk—unlimited bandwidth with zero airborne RF. Space-based broadband—relocates high-power transmitters hundreds of miles away. These solutions stall because Section 704 guarantees incumbent revenue. The FCC strangles competition not with innovation, but with legislation.

RT @JonHaidt: On this day when the UK Government announces it is raising the age for opening social media accounts, it may be helpful to re…

Yet another study shows a 24% reduced risk of dementia after the Shingles vaccine. This one in over 500,000 participants with a recent skilled nursing facility stay, adding to 4 huge natural experiments in 4 countries (US, Canada, Wales, and Australia) acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/… @AnnalsofIM

The UK government announced today that social media will be banned for under-16s, following Australia's similar ban at the end of last year go.nature.com/4xtKekN

For the first time in more than 25 years, the FDA has approved a new active ingredient for over-the-counter sunscreens. It clears the way for manufacturers to begin using bemotrizinol, or BEMT, an ingredient that's been used in Europe and Asia since the 1990s. @IAmAmnaNawaz has more.

It’s gotten so ridiculous that coal plants and chemical factories simply had to send the EPA an email to get exempt from pollution rules. As pollution causes more cancer, more asthma attacks, and more flooded communities, the EPA is abandoning their mission—and us. 📸 Photo courtesy of @SouthWings.

Today is World Blood Donor Day! Donating one unit of blood may save the lives of up to three people. The process is quick, safe and easy. It is a lifesaving resource for those with critical health conditions. 📲 Donate today: aabb.org/for-donors-patients….

A hidden two-way signaling loop may help glioblastoma keep growing even under stress, pointing to a new weak spot in the tumor’s defenses. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…

Americans are going all-in for supplements, despite lack of supportive evidence for most of them jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…