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This week on “60 Minutes,” President Biden swore “there’s not a single thing that I’ve observed at all that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter.” That claim is exploded by newly uncovered emails which prove Joe Biden obstructed justice to enrich Hunter: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/smoking-gun-newly-discovered-emails-confirm-joe-biden-obstructed-justice-for-his-sons-foreign-business-deal “60 Minutes” footage reproduced under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

CBS News misled its viewers to believe that the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of all wealthy nations and then deceitfully blamed a lack of abortions and an abundance of racism for this. SOURCES: CBS Evening News’ recent “in-depth” report on maternal mortality: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/08/17/cbs-falsely-equates-abortion-bans-high-maternal-mortality-rates A 2016 paper in The Lancet titled “Global, Regional, and National Levels of Maternal Mortality, 1990–2015” documents these facts: • “Despite knowledge of its importance, only a few countries using ICD-10 reliably code late maternal deaths. This is especially egregious because many of the same countries who have completed multiple confidential enquiries also have not recorded a single late maternal death in their official statistics. Denmark, Ireland, Finland, and the UK all fall into this category. Australia, France, and South Africa likewise completed multiple confidential enquiries and have recorded a total of eight maternal deaths combined in the entirety of their official statistics.” • “The USA … is also one of the only countries that has proactively improved its civil registration system with addition of a pregnancy checkbox on the standard death certificate….” https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2816%2931470-2.pdf A 2020 report by U.S. Government Accountability Office documents that the U.S. defines pregnancy-related deaths to include “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 1 year of the end of a pregnancy— regardless of the outcome, duration or site of the pregnancy—from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.” https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-248 A 2017 article in The Economist titled “Is Pregnancy in America Much Deadlier Than in Other Rich Countries?” reports: • “The question is harder to answer than you might think.” • In rich countries, these deaths are tallied from vital-registration systems which in turn compile data from death certificates. These, however, are known to undercount maternal deaths, partly because doctors must select a cause of death from thousands of codes. They are more likely to consider the subset reserved for medical problems caused by pregnancy when the form has a checkbox asking whether the woman had been pregnant. America added this checkbox to its standard death certificate in 2003” and “a recent study found that its growing use accounted for 80% of the steep rise in maternal mortality recorded in 2000-14. Although many maternal deaths that would otherwise go unrecorded are now tallied thanks to the checkbox, it is also often marked erroneously—showing recent pregnancy on the death certificates of women who died in their 50s, for example.” • “According to data from death certificates, America’s rate is 21 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. In Britain, which does not use the pregnancy checkbox, the rate is four to five times lower. It is a rate that British health authorities do not consider reliable.” • “In America this type of detailed system, run by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), counts maternal deaths that occur up to a year after pregnancy. (Deaths resulting from pregnancy, such as suicides caused by post-partum depression, can strike many months after delivery.) By that measure, America’s maternal mortality rate in 2011-13 (the latest period for which data have been published) was 17 deaths per 100,000 live births. Maternal deaths tallied in the same way in Britain for 2012-14 result in a mortality rate that is almost exactly the same.” https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/08/05/is-pregnancy-in-america-much-deadlier-than-in-other-rich-countries News reports, as well, as the testimony of Charles Johnson in a medical negligence lawsuit surrounding Kira’s death all show that abortion played no role in this tragedy: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/wife-died-giving-birth-change-laws-to-protect-more-women-pregnancy-related-deaths/2395401/ https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/cedars-sinai-medical-center-los-angeles-lawsuit-black-woman-c-section-death/ https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF14/20180927/108724/HHRG-115-IF14-Wstate-JohnsonC-20180927.pdf Association does not prove causation, and this fact is commonly taught in high school: https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#association_causation http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standards.pdf#page=81 Studies show that women who have an abortion are much more likely to die young than those who deliver a child: • “Increased risks of death were 45%, 114% and 191% for 1, 2 and 3 abortions, respectively, compared with no abortions after controlling for other reproductive outcomes and last pregnancy age.” https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/23/4/569/427991 • “The mortality was lower after a birth (28.2/100,000) than after a spontaneous (51.9/100,000) or induced abortion (83.1/100,000).” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002937803011360 • “Compared with women who delivered, those who aborted had a significantly higher age-adjusted risk of death from all causes (1.62), from suicide (2.54), and from accidents (1.82), as well as a higher relative risk of death from natural causes (1.44), including the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (2.18), circulatory diseases (2.87), and cerebrovascular disease (5.46).” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12190217/ Obesity, HIV, and high blood pressure increase the risk of maternal mortality: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020729211600040 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4445352/ Based on four different methods that produced roughly the same results, a 2019 paper in the Annals of Family Medicine found that “social and behavioral factors”—not “deficiencies in health care access or delivery”—are the main drivers of life expectancy disparities in the United States: https://www.annfammed.org/content/annalsfm/17/3/267.full.pdf The lowest rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. is not among white women or Asian women but Hispanic women: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-20-248 Victim mentalities reduce the willpower needed to make positive changes: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1503530112 CBS News footage reproduced under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Contrary to NBC Nightly News, there is no scientific basis for the claim that climate change is causing shark attacks. SOURCES: In a July 2022 episode of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Kerry Sanders reported on “the concern” that “climate change means warmer waters, which brings sharks closer to shore.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/17-year-old-attacked-by-shark-after-sharks-were-spotted-near-the-shore-days-before/ar-AAZ5V9l A 2019 paper in the journal PLoS One measured shark attacks per million people in the nations with the most shark attacks and found that “the majority of countries saw no perceptible trend or change” since 1960. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211049 With regard to the few countries with more shark attacks, a 2011 paper in the journal Marine and Freshwater Research found that the rise in Australia is due to people spending more time in the ocean and “there is no evidence of increasing shark numbers that would influence the rise of attacks in Australian waters.” https://www.publish.csiro.au/mf/Fulltext/MF10181 Beyond shark attacks, journalists, activists, politicians, and educators have fabricated or exaggerated threats from climate change with matters like: • animal extinctions: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions_extinctions • deforestation: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions_forests • flooding: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-nation-of-kiribati-is-growing-not-sinking • agricultural decline: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions-famine • insect-borne diseases: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/ddt-ban-not-global-warming-outbreak-disease-carrying-insects • rainfall: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/has-global-warming-made-rainstorms-more-intense • sea ice: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/has-global-warming-turned-the-north-pole-into-a-lake Climatologist Stephen Schneider was a founding member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Henry-Schneider In 1989, Schneider told Discover magazine that in order to “reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change,” “we have to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.” He also said, “Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.” https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_warming_stephen_schneider_discover_magazine_october_1989.pdf NBC News footage reproduced under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Politics aside, the facts of science leave no doubt about when every new human life begins. Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-facts-of-science-prove-that-each-human-life-begins-at-fertilization

The U.S. Supreme Court has just struck down a NY State law that denied law-abiding citizens the right to bear arms. Some claim that ordinary citizens rarely use guns to stop crime, but this 2019 video from Just Facts proves the exact opposite is true. Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/how-often-do-citizens-use-guns-to-stop-violence/

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After the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Florida, President Trump called for arming and training selected teachers to protect the lives of students. However, a wide array of media outlets spread misinformation denying the need for this action. Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/media-misinformation-about-arming-teachers/

Polls showing public support for Roe. v. Wade are rooted in flagrant disinformation spread by the media. SOURCES: A leak indicates the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473 For decades, the media has been reporting that Roe only legalizes abortion for the first 3 months of pregnancy or before viability: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Roe+v.+Wade%22+%22first+three+months%22+OR+%22viability%22&lr=&safe=images&biw=1024&bih=686&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2000%2Ccd_max%3A5%2F26%2F2022&tbm=nws Polls explicitly mislead respondents to believe that Roe only legalizes abortion before viability: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/roe-v-wade-allows-abortions-for-all-9-months-of-pregnancy-not-just-the-first-3 Humans become viable around 22 weeks of pregnancy, or about 24 weeks after fertilization: https://jme.bmj.com/content/46/11/773.full https://www.justfacts.com/abortion#Science “By week 12, the fetus sucks its thumb, kicks, makes fists and faces, and has the beginnings of baby teeth.” [Textbook: Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications (3rd edition). McGraw Hill, 1998. Page 56.] “Limb movements, which occur at the end of the embryonic period (8 weeks), become coordinated by the 14th week, but are too slight to be felt by the mother.” [Textbook: Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects (5th edition). W.B. Saunders Company, 1998. Page 106.] “The central advance of this study is the demonstration that ‘social actions’ are already performed in the second trimester of gestation. Starting from the 14th week of gestation twin foetuses plan and execute movements specifically aimed at the co-twin.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013199 “At 20 weeks, the fetus … now sleeps and wakes and hears sounds.” [Article: “Fetus.” American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia. Random House, 2003.] Roe v. Wade mandates that abortion be legal after viability “for the preservation of the life or health of the mother.” Some examples of what Roe considers harmful to health include “child care,” “the distress” of having an “unwanted child,” and the “stigma of unwed motherhood.” https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/410/113.html The Supreme Court’s 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey reaffirmed “Roe’s essential holding” that abortion be legal after viability “for pregnancies which endanger the woman’s life or health.” https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/505/833.html On the same day the Supreme Court issued Roe v. Wade, it also issued Doe v. Bolton with an order that these rulings “are to be read together.” Doe mandates that “the medical judgment” about whether an abortion is needed for “the wellbeing of the patient” can be made by any “physician” who is “licensed by the State” to perform abortions: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/179/#tab-opinion-1950139 Gallup polls conducted for decades show that 80–86% of Americans want abortion to be illegal in the last three months of pregnancy: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx States have enacted about 400 restrictions that defy Roe: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2975/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22women%27s+Health+Protection+Act%5C%22%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=2 A 2011 New York Times commentary explains that “abortion rights groups” have “been wise to avoid” suing states that prohibit “abortion after 20 or 22 weeks of pregnancy,” because 72% of the public favors “making late-term abortion illegal,” and it is “best” not to tread on this “dangerous political ground.” https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/the-reincarnation-of-pro-life.html

CNN claims that global warming is supercharging hurricanes, but scientific facts show that the frequency, intensity, and duration of hurricanes have been level for as far back in time as reliable data extends. SOURCES: CNN show transcript: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date/2022-04-15/segment/02 The study used by CNN is based on a computer model: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29379-1 The academic serial work Flood Geomorphology (page ix) explains that “if the wrong equations are programmed” into a computer model, it will produce the “opposite of science”: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Flood+Geomorphology-p-9780471625582 For as far back in time as reliable data extends, the global frequency, intensity, and duration of hurricanes have been level: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions-extreme https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-washington-posts-slander-on-hurricanes-and-climate-change For as far back in time as reliable data extends, economic damages from hurricanes have been level when accounting for the fact that coastline development has been increasing dramatically for decades: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0165-2 Some scientists have been claiming for more than 30 years that global warming was going to cause stronger hurricanes and host of other natural disasters that have not materialized: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/93000F7Z.PDF?Dockey=93000F7Z.PDF https://www.justfactsdaily.com/climate-change-fears-of-teen-activist-are-empirically-baseless Anecdotes can be highly deceitful: https://www.justfacts.com/racialissues#violence_blm_anecdotes Science is the “systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation”: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Science A 2015 paper in the Journal of Hydrology examined rainfall measurements “made at nearly 1,000 stations located in 114 countries” and found “no significant global precipitation change from 1850 to present.” It also found that previous studies had analyzed shorter timeframes and found rainfall changes that some people had attributed to global warming, but those results were generally not statistically significant and “not entirely surprising given that precipitation varies considerably over time scales of decades.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169415008744 A 2013 paper in the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology found that contrary to “climate models,” actual observations “reveal no significant trend in the areas under drought over land in the past three decades.” The study did find increasing drought over land in the Southern Hemisphere, but the hemisphere is only 19% land, as opposed to 39% in the Northern Hemisphere: http://amir.eng.uci.edu/publications/13_Drought_Trend_TAAC.pdf Legendary physicist Richard Feynman was an extremely creative thinker who blazed new frontiers of science, but he was also a staunch advocate of the view that science must be grounded in practical reality. He expressed this by saying, “Experiment is the sole judge of scientific ‘truth’.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Feynman https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html

Biden and Obama have repeatedly done Putin’s bidding, while media outlets, big tech companies, and government officials have suppressed facts that can leave Biden and others vulnerable to extortion and blackmail. SOURCES: The 2020 Senate Republican report documents the names, date, payment mechanism, and transaction notations of a $3.5 million payment from the mayor of Moscow’s wife to a business co-owned by Hunter Biden: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf#page=69 There is strong evidence Hillary Clinton destroyed official government communications: https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation/hillary-clinton-failed-to-hand-over-key-email-to-state-department/2282928/ There is strong evidence Joe Biden used U.S. taxpayer money to bribe Ukrainian officials to end an investigation into his son: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/media-titans-subvert-reality-about-biden-ukraine-profiteering Barack Obama cancelled plans to protect Eastern Europe from Russian aggression by deploying missile interceptors in Poland, a decision that Vladimir Putin praised as “very right and brave”: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-29-fg-poland29-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-19-fg-missile-defense19-story.html Joe Biden greenlit a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany despite warnings that it “could facilitate a possible Russian invasion” of Ukraine: https://www.state.gov/nord-stream-2-and-european-energy-security/ https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/us-ukraine-russia-pipeline-500334 Biden and Obama have impeded U.S. energy production: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-billings-a3a37acf2fce55449b704b01badc1f67 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-places-sweeping-ban-offshore-drilling-n698461 Obama and Biden refused to equip Ukraine with defensive weapons when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, leading Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to remark that “one cannot win a war with a blanket”: https://apnews.com/article/3625313d1b54411ea0753387ccbd36b2 Biden refused to allow the transfer of fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine to protect them from the Russian onslaught: https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/psaki-pressed-on-bidens-refusal-to-send-polish-jets-to-ukraine/ Trump released a full transcript of his phone call with the president of Ukraine: https://www.justfacts.com/document/ukraine_donald_trump_volodymyr_zelensky_7.25.19.pdf The Department of Justice delayed an investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop “to avoid taking any actions that could alert the public to the existence of the case in the middle of a presidential election”: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/16/hunter-biden-probe-prosecutor-499782 Without any evidence, former intelligence officials spread the claim that the laptop was “Russian information,” which the media changed to “Russian disinformation”: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276 Twitter and Facebook suppressed reporting exposing the contents of the laptop: https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/twitter-still-holding-the-posts-account-hostage-over-hunter-biden-links/ https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000 “Unlike Pop,” Hunter Biden wrote his daughter, “I won’t make you give me half your salary.” He also complained to her that he has been paying for “everything for this entire family for 30 years”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10070093/Joe-Biden-Hunters-shared-bank-accounts-make-president-target-FBI-probe.html The same laptop contains a verified email asking if Joe Biden will be a partial stealth owner of a business venture with a Chinese energy company: https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/ One month after a Ukrainian gas company executive instructed Hunter Biden to “proceed immediately” with enlisting “high-ranking US officials” to visit Ukraine and persuade “the highest level of decision makers here in Ukraine” to “close down” all “cases/pursuits against” its Russian-connected owner, Joe Biden acted in accord with these instructions by visiting Ukraine and telling its president and its prime minister: “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money”: https://mediaactionnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/25.-Re-Revised-Burisma-Proposal-Contract-and-Invoice.pdf https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/09/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-ukrainian-rada https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden

By using crafty statistics exposed in this video, big media and government claimed that “Covid-19 is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” while vaccinated people died in droves from Covid-19 and the unvaccinated were fired, banned from colleges, and denied organ transplants. Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is provided in these articles: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/covid-19-is-not-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated https://www.justfactsdaily.com/omicron-delta-naturally-acquired-immunity-vaccines

Until better technologies are invented, the “green energy” agenda enriches and empowers tyrannical regimes, making the world dependent on them. SOURCES: Jake Tapper & Chris Murphy transcript: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date/2022-03-08/segment/02 Germany largely banned fracking: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-largely-bans-fracking-with-new-laws/a-37510063 https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2017-03-08/germany-unconventional-fracking-prohibited/ Germany shut down its nuclear power plants: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/germany.aspx Germany has aggressively mandated wind and solar: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/60434f12-7891-4469-b3e4-1e82ff898212/Germany_2020_Energy_Policy_Review.pdf#page=128 In 2019, Germany imported 67% of all of its energy from foreign nations, up from 59% in 2000: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_07_50/default/table?lang=en The average price of household electricity in Germany is about three times that of the United States: https://www.justfacts.com/energy#public_regulations_wind Joe Biden ended sanctions put in place by Donald Trump that prevented Russia from completing a pipeline to sell natural gas to Germany: https://www.state.gov/nord-stream-2-and-european-energy-security/ The pipeline was completed just 6 months ago in September 2021 despite warnings that it “could facilitate a possible Russian invasion” of Ukraine: https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/10/nord-stream-2-construction-completed-but-ukraine-pledges-to-continue-fightRussia https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/us-ukraine-russia-pipeline-500334 Wind and solar must be backed-up by other energy sources that can generate electricity on demand, such as natural gas power plants: https://fire.pppl.gov/energy_overview_EFDA.pdf#page=39 For 40+ years, the U.S. government has heavily subsidized solar while discouraging the use of competing energy sources through taxes and regulations: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-sat-is-feeding-students-solar-industry-propaganda https://www.justfacts.com/energy#taxes https://www.justfacts.com/energy#regulations Solar provided only 1.3% of all U.S. energy in 2020: https://www.justfacts.com/energy#supplies Petroleum is a global market, and it sometimes more cost-effective to import and export some oil even if a nation produces as much as it uses. The U.S. did this even before government Covid-19 lockdowns caused large declines in gasoline usage: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php The U.S. has been a net exporter of natural gas for several years: https://www.justfacts.com/energy#gas-consumption Communist China dominates nearly every major level of the supply chains for key components of the solar and electric car industries. These include, for example: • 73% of the world’s lithium ion battery cells: https://www.benchmarkminerals.com/membership/china-controls-sway-of-electric-vehicle-power-through-battery-chemicals-cathode-and-anode-production/ • 78% of the world’s supply of solar cells: https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/Solar%20PV%20Case%20Study%20-%20BloombergNEF.pdf#page=19 A shell company in Bermuda with deep ties to Vladimir Putin and Russian oil companies has donated tens of millions of dollars to the Sierra Club and other environmental groups that oppose fracking: https://www.biggreenradicals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Klein_Report.pdf

As Democratic governors ditch mask mandates, CNN is attempting to rewrite history in ways that cover for the harm caused by those politicians, the CDC, the media, and big tech. SOURCES: Transcript of 2/7/22 CNN broadcast in which Dr. Leana Wen claimed that the science on masks has changed: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/acd/date/2022-02-07/segment/01 Wen stated in late December 2021 that “cloth masks are little more than facial decorations” and “scientists and public health officials have been saying” this “for months, many months.” https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/24/health/cloth-mask-omicron-variant-wellness/index.html A broad array of studies conducted before and early during the Covid-19 pandemic found no evidence that cloth masks control the spread of contagious respiratory diseases, even for the flu, which is far less contagious than Covid-19: https://www.justfacts.com/document/mitigating_risk_impact_influenza_who_2019.pdf#page=26 https://peerj.com/articles/7142/ https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577 https://peerj.com/articles/7142/ https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2334-14-480 https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/27/2/taaa021/5735319 Before and during the C-19 pandemic, science journals reported that masks interfere with bonding and communication: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196655308009097 https://hearingreview.com/hearing-loss/health-wellness/how-do-medical-masks-degrade-speech-reception https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.669432/full https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-laryngology-and-otology/article/effects-of-n95-mask-and-face-shield-on-speech-perception-among-healthcare-workers-in-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-pandemic-scenario/83DE0D454255C304D15F2B6AFAF0C965 Bonding and communication are essential to mental health, physical health, and education: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17571472.2015.1133012 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2006.1941 Science journals have documented that masks and the CO2 levels in them cause headaches, cardio-pulmonary stress, and cognitive impairment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196655308009097 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/2/107.info https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-20-07-covid-0403 https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.1104789 Dr. Leana Wen claimed in July 2020 that “there are no health effects to wearing” masks: https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/dr-leana-wen-5-ways-convince-skeptical-loved-one-wear-n1234596 Studies on vaccines and Omicron are sparse and uncertain due to small datasets, a lack of peer-review, and the absence of “gold standard” randomized controlled trials because vaccine manufacturers terminated them early against the advice of government regulatory agencies: https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/08/bmjebm-2021-111735 https://www.icmra.info/drupal/covid-19/statement_on_continuation_of_vaccine_trials https://www.justfactsdaily.com/omicron-delta-naturally-acquired-immunity-vaccines#omicron Studies have found that Covid-19 vaccines are far less effective against Omicron than earlier variants that dominated while mask mandates were in full swing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8669855/ https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-provide-update-omicron-variant A nationwide study conducted in Denmark found that vaccine protection against Omicron “declines rapidly” and by 4 to 5 months after vaccination, unvaccinated people are are less likely to catch Omicron than fully vaccinated people: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966v3.full.pdf In January 2021, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study of all 1.9 million Swedish children who attended school in the spring of 2020 while (1) masks were not required, (2) masks were “rarely used,” and (3) Covid-19 vaccines were not available. The study found that “no child with Covid-19 died” and that teachers were admitted to an ICU with C-19 at half the rate of other professions: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670 The CDC ignored the studies above and dozens more with similar results while telling the public that cloth masks are highly effective at controlling the spread of Covid-19. Government officials, politicians, media outlets, and big tech parroted those unscientific assertions: https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods

Media outlets and governments are telling people to wear N95 masks without warning them of the serious dangers documented in scientific journals. SOURCES: N95 masks are commonly worn in medical facilities: https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc4670234 OSHA requires employers to conduct a medical evaluation of each employee who wears N95s because they “may place a burden on an employee’s health”: https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/3384small-entity-for-respiratory-protection-standard-rev.pdf The CO2 concentration of the air we exhale is 4–5%, or 40,000–50,000 parts per million (ppm): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ina.12286 The CO2 concentration of fresh air is about 400 ppm: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935121008549 A study published in 2013 found that CO2 levels in the breathing zones of 30 different models of N95 masks ranged from 13,000–35,000 ppm: https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/57/3/384/230992 OSHA’s work shift limit for CO2 is 5,000 ppm: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flavorings/limits.html The indoor (classroom) limit for CO2 in “many countries” is 0.1%, or 1,000 ppm: https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-20-07-covid-0403 Studies have found that CO2 levels of 2,500 ppm cause “large and statistically significant reductions” in complex decision-making ability: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.1104789 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-018-0055-8 Based on a systematic literature review published by the Journal of Patient Safety in 2013, “there are at least 210,000 lethal” errors in U.S. hospitals each year, and “the true number” is “estimated at more than 400,000 per year”: http://www.patientsafetyamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/A_New_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.pdf Deaths in the U.S. from fatal hospital errors are roughly in the range of the number of C-19 deaths that occurred in the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/covid-19.htm Studies published in scientific journals have found that N95s cause: • headaches: https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/head.13811?af=R • cardio-pulmonary stress: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y • possible fatal cardiac events among people with heart disease and those who are vigorously exercising: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720324671 The data above and many more facts about masks are documented in Just Facts’ article, “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Masks, and the Deadly Falsehoods Surrounding Them”: https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods

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Contrary to political dogma, Pfizer’s “gold standard” study of its Covid-19 vaccine found no evidence that the vaccine saves more lives than it costs. These earth-shaking results were buried 23 pages into the FDA’s approval summary for the vaccine. The hard facts in this video shatter rhetoric from both sides of the C-19 vax debate, and they bring vital knowledge to the vast bulk of people who simply want to make informed decisions about their health. Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/main-study-fda-approve-covid-19-vaccine-risk-death This video debunks lethal falsehoods advanced by big government, big pharma, and big tech, and they have already begun to censor these facts. Make sure you never miss research from Just Facts by signing up for our emails at https://www.justfacts.com/notification

To vilify Aaron Rogers as a “crackpot,” CNN blindly relies on a government agency that is contradicted by numerous studies and has grossly misled the public. Photo of Aaron Rogers licensed by Just Facts from Getty Images/Photographer David Berding SOURCES: CNN transcript: https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20211105_210000_The_Lead_With_Jake_Tapper Peer-reviewed studies have found that naturally acquired immunity to Covid-19 is robust, durable, and at least as good, if not better than the immunity conferred by the current crop of C-19 vaccines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420315658 https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(21)00203-2 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034545 https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(20)30781-7/fulltext https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abf4063 https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab345/6251701 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01632787211047932 https://www.ejinme.com/article/S0953-6205%2821%2900271-5/fulltext https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13520 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03696-9 Newer working papers that have not yet undergone peer review have found the same: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.03.21259976v2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.29.454333v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full-text https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.08.21266055v The government of Switzerland considers naturally acquired immunity to be a valid alternative to vaccination in its Covid-19 safety regulations: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/switzerland-plans-to-extend-covid-certificate-requirement-until-mid-november/ Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of conflicting studies about C-19 immunity: https://brownstone.org/articles/a-review-and-autopsy-of-two-covid-immunity-studies/ Covid-19 and other contagious respiratory diseases are mainly spread by microscopic aerosols that are much smaller than the pores in the finest cloth and surgical masks. The World Health Organization and CDC denied this reality for more than a year and then quietly changed their webpages to admit it is true. When the CDC made the change, it deleted this incriminating statement with fatal implications: “Pathogens that are spread easily through airborne transmission require the use of special engineering controls to prevent infections….” https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods#laboratory Ultraviolet disinfection has been successfully used to control the spread of contagious respiratory diseases for more than 80 years: https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods#ultraviolet

By failing to report the harms of raising the minimum wage while exaggerating the benefits, media outlets are leading voters and policymakers to make uninformed decisions that could harm a lot of people. Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/maximum-facts-about-the-minimum-wage

Correction (11/4/21): At 3:26, this video incorrectly states that “Pfizer is not supplying an RCT in its emergency use application for its Covid-19 vaccine” in children. This statement was based on two Pfizer press releases (September 20 and September 28) that announced “positive topline results from the pivotal trial” for this vaccine in young children and that Pfizer was submitting these results to the FDA to seek “authorization” for this age group. Both press releases said nothing about an RCT or placebo. Instead, they reported that the vaccine showed a “favorable safety profile” and “robust neutralizing antibody responses.” A sure way to cause more tragic deaths is to adopt a “prevent at all costs” mentality to only one type of lethal threat without considering all of the others. Unlike dogmatists who do just that, this broadcast candidly discusses risks and benefits of vaccinating children for Covid-19. SOURCES: MSNBC segment on Covid-19 vaccines for children: https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-last-word-lawrence-o-donnell-10-8-21-n1281213 Risk of dying from Covid-19 by age (spreadsheet): https://www.justfacts.com/reference/covid-19_deaths_ages.xls Effects of lockdowns on children: • General: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.625778/full Mental health: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/years-of-life-lost-due-to-the-psychosocial-consequences-of-covid19-mitigation-strategies-based-on-swiss-data/B6BFC8BADF08FDD8350B01AAC6B22381 • Suicides: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7024e1.htm • Education: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2022376118 • Obesity: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm Association does not prove causation: https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#association_causation The United Kingdom’s Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency explains that “all vaccines and medicines have some side effects,” and “these side effects need to be continuously balanced against the expected benefits in preventing illness.” https://web.archive.org/web/20211012071317/https:/www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting Randomized controlled trials are the “gold standard” for clinical research: https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.15199 Pfizer’s September 20 press release: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-announce-positive-topline-results Pfizer’s September 28 press release: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-submit-initial-data-us-fda-pivotal Antibodies are only one part of the human immune system: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(21)00203-2 The most prominent known risks of Pfizer’s C-19 vaccine are heart inflammation conditions, and younger males are at a greater risk for this: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.html The FDA’s approval summary for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine explains that under a “worst-case” scenario, the risk of heart inflammation caused by the vaccine “would exceed Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths” among males 16-17 years of age: https://www.justfacts.com/document/pfizer_covid-19_vaccine_approval_summary_fda_2021.pdf#page=24

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Elizabeth Nader of Jersey 1st interviews Just Facts president Jim Agresti about his extensive research on masks and the deadly falsehoods surrounding them. For thorough documentation of every fact in this video, visit https://www.justfacts.com/news_face_masks_deadly_falsehoods

Today’s broadcast addresses a common mistake made by everyone from Anthony Fauci to anti-vaxxers about the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. Sources: Fauci’s 2/17/21 comments about vaccines in Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXEfROd-R2A Current Covid-19 cases in Israel: https://outbreak.info/epidemiology?location=ISR&log=false&variable=confirmed_rolling&xVariable=date&fixedY=false&percapita=false “The root of most instances of statistical malpractice is the … introduction of causal assumptions into analysis without justifying them on scientific grounds”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401528/pdf/jrcollphyslond90376-0016.pdf The fact that “association does not prove causation” is taught in high school math: http://www.corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/Math_Standards.pdf#page=81 “In clinical research, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to study the safety and efficacy of new treatments”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196997/ Randomized controlled trials are “the gold standard for effectiveness research”: https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.15199 The latest randomized controlled trial of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download

Welcome to the very first episode of Just Facts News. Through this newscast, we will bring you thoroughly vetted facts that other news shows have ignored or distorted. Today’s broadcast debunks a common statistic about immunized people who die from Covid-19. It also reports oft-ignored facts about naturally acquired immunity to C-19. Sources: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fcf43d9731c76c16e7354f5d5e187 https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13520 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.03.21259976v2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.29.454333v1