What They Aren’t Telling You About N95 Masks
Media outlets and governments are telling people to wear N95 masks without warning them of the serious dangers documented in scientific journals.
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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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The Mass Extinction Fraud
Contrary to 60 Minutes, the facts are overwhelming that earth isn’t in the midst of an “extinction crisis.”
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On 1/1/23, 60 Minutes reported, “A World Wildlife Fund study says that in the past 50 years, the abundance of global wildlife has collapsed 69%.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/
The World Wildlife Fund study cited by 60 Minutes is based on its “Living Planet Index.”
https://wwflpr.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2022_full_report.pdf#page=18
Scholars in academic journals have documented that the Living Planet Index (LPI) “does not measure abundance.” Yet, the World Wildlife Fund claims that it does and receives “high media coverage” that makes the “common mistake of interpreting the LPI as measuring abundance loss.”
https://leung-lab.github.io/leunglab/articles/Leung_2022_601a.pdf
https://wwflpr.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2022_full_report.pdf#page=18
The claim that the Living Planet Index shows a “mean vertebrate decline of more than 50% since 1970” is “driven by less than 3% of vertebrate populations,” while “no global trend remained across typical populations.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2920-6
A study using the world’s largest database of long-term species abundances found, “Most populations (85%) did not show significant trends in abundance, and those that did were balanced between winners (8%) and losers (7%).” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13242
The figure of “up to 100 times” from Barnosky’s research actually “varied from 8 to 100 times.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1400253
A Cambridge University Press book on biodiversity explains that no “serious” attempt has been made to “judge the reliability” of extinction rates based on fossils because the “uncertainties at each stage of the calculation” would make the effort worthless. Thus, the book states, “Probably no one will be surprised if this estimate is off by a factor of 10 or even 100.” https://www.amazon.com/Biodiversity-Environmental-Philosophy-Introduction-Cambridge-ebook/dp/B000SHMQES
Barnosky’s research counts all “617” vertebrae species that have become extinct or “possibly extinct” since 1500. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1400253
An academic journal documents that 95% of bird and mammal extinctions since 1500 “were on islands.” Thus, “it is useful to consider islands as a special case” because species have “smaller geographic ranges” and other differences that make them more prone to extinction than continental species. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00856.x
Per the textbook Conservation and Ecology, “The estimates of the background extinction rate” from fossils “derive from the abundant and widespread species that dominate the fossil record. By contrast, the species most likely to become extinct today are rare and local.” https://www.amazon.com/Conservation-Ecology-Living-Earth-Rafferty/dp/1615303073
Per the textbook Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, “A particularly important bias of the fossil record is expressed against organisms that are rare and/or geographically restricted.” https://www.amazon.com/Vertebrate-Paleontology-Evolution-Robert-Carroll/dp/0716718227
A 2011 paper in the journal Diversity and Distributions revealed that “only six continental birds and three continental mammals were recorded in standard databases as going extinct since 1500 compared to 123 bird species and 58 mammal species on islands.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00856.x
A 2015 paper in the journal Science disclosed that there were “only 15 global extinctions of marine animal species in the past 514 years” and “none in the past five decades.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1255641
A paper in the journal Endangered Species Research by an Australian scientist states that certain scientists overstate “the risks of wildlife becoming extinct” by using “deliberate and gross” exaggerations. The paper also states that scientists who designate species as “endangered” are “often beneficiaries” of funding that flows as a result of these designations. Thus, “the potential for self-serving assessments has long been recognized.” http://www.int-res.com/articles/esr2008/6/n006p161.pdf
The scientists who authored the paper in the journal Diversity and Distributions state, “Our results do not support statements or projections by others of grossly elevated extinction rates for continental bird and mammal fauna over the last 500 years compared with background rates.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00856.x
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter tasked the EPA, State Department, National Science Foundation, and several other federal agencies to produce a “study of the probable changes” to the “world’s population, natural resources, and environment” up through the year 2000. This turned into a herculean effort, involving hundreds of people, including “informal advisors” to the study representing the world’s leading environmental institutions. https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_2000_report_president_carter_1979.pdf#page=4
In 1979, the dream team of scientists released The Global 2000 Report to the President of the U.S., which stated that “at least 500,000–600,000” species “will be extinguished during the next two decades” under “continued technological progress” and “no departures from present public policy.” https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_2000_report_president_carter_1979.pdf#page=357
In 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported, “At least 27 species are recorded as having become Extinct or Extinct in the Wild during the last 20 years (1984–2004). … For example, eight species of birds are thought to have become Extinct or Extinct in the Wild over the past 20 years, but they are not included, as further research is needed prove the last individual has died.” https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/RL-2004-001.pdf
The Global 2000 Report to the President of the U.S. states, “How many extinctions are implied by the Global 2000 Study’s forestry projections? An estimate was prepared for the Global 2000 Study by Thomas E. Lovejoy of the World Wildlife Fund.” https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_2000_report_president_carter_1979.pdf#page=353
The 60 Minutes footage from CBS is 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
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Media Misinformation About Arming Teachers
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/
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Shark Attacks and Climate Change
Contrary to NBC Nightly News, there is no scientific basis for the claim that climate change is causing shark attacks.
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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
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Climate Change is Not Causing Famines
While showing heartbreaking footage of children starving in Somalia, CBS News blamed their plight on climate change, but the facts reveal an entirely different story.
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CBS News segment by host Norah O’Donnell and correspondent Debora Patta: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/11/14/cbs-blames-climate-change-starving-dying-children-poor-somalia
Somalia has a long and terrible history of droughts, experiencing 10 severe droughts from 1964 to 2011: http://www.faoswalim.org/water-resources/drought/drought-monitoring
Somalia contains 1/1,000th of the earth’s surface area:
“Somalia … Area total: 637,657 sq km” https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/somalia/
“The surface area around the globe is 510,072,000 square kilometers.” https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-countries-in-the-world-the-biggest-nations-as-determined-by-total-land-area.html
Rigorous studies show that earth’s rainfall patterns haven’t significantly changed over the past century:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588423/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11575
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169415008744
The earth’s natural vegetation productivity has actually increased over the past several decades:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1082750
The portion of the world’s population that is undernourished declined from 13% in 2001 to 9% in 2020: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS
The average number of daily calories needed to lift the undernourished people of the world out of that condition declined from 172 in 1992 to 88 in 2016: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions-famine
Somalia has a problematic climate and is experiencing a severe drought:
http://www.faoswalim.org/water-resources/drought/drought-monitoring
https://somalia.un.org/en/208004-somalia-hope-fades-famine-looms
As a scholar explained in 2011, “Famine stops at the Somali border,” and “Rainfall is not the controlling variable for this differential outcome, because rainfall is not really variable across these borders where Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111120101837/http:/www.edwardrcarr.com/opentheechochamber/2011/07/21/drought-does-not-equal-famine/
https://edwardrcarr.com/downloads/Carr%20Vitae%2028%20February%202022.pdf
Somalia is wracked by civil war and Islamic extremism that imposes Sharia law on large parts of the nation: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/somalia/
Somalia has one of the most corrupt governments in the world: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization complains that Somalia has “very high humanitarian access constraints” due to “armed hostilities, bureaucratic impediments and inference, and impassable roads during the rainy season.” https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000136243/download/
Covid-19 lockdowns have caused food shortages and prices to increase, hurting the world’s poorest people the most:
https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Teachout-and-Zipfel-2020-policy-brief-.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790064/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211019854
Note that in the very first month of the Covid-19 pandemic, Just Facts warned about the effects of lockdowns on food and other necessities by writing this: “If certain industries adopted the social distancing extremes that many people have embraced, this would shut down food production and distribution, health care, utilities, and other life-sustaining services. Even under far more moderate scenarios where people who are not in these industries shun work, all of those necessities and many more aspects of modern life depend on the general strength of the economy. Thus, overreacting can ultimately kill more people than are saved.” https://www.justfactsdaily.com/vital-facts-about-covid-19
In 1989, William H. Mansfield III, the deputy executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, wrote that “concern about climate change impacts has sent storm warning flags aloft in the United Nations” because global warming would “disrupt agriculture” and “adversely” affect “food supplies”: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/93000F7Z.PDF?Dockey=93000F7Z.PDF#page=39
In 2007, Newsweek reported that China was undergoing “serious food shortages due to global warming”: https://www.newsweek.com/growth-not-enough-98033
In 2008, Newsweek reported that “the potential nightmares of global warming” include “starvation due to drought”: https://www.newsweek.com/mckinsey-cutting-carbon-wont-cost-much-85391
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
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Supercharge Your Searches!
Unless you learn how to skillfully use search engines, you’re blindly trusting your money and your life to corporate executives who may not be competent, honest, or even decent.
A script of this video, documentation of every fact in it, and “Genius Notes” to help you apply these skills are available at https://www.justfactsacademy.org/search
There is a dangerous hole in the U.S. education system: students are learning what to think instead of how to think. Be part of the solution by taking this free course at Just Facts Academy and sharing it with others: https://www.justfactsacademy.org/
Then sign up for our emails so that you never miss a new video: https://www.justfacts.com/notification
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Climate Change Fears of Teen Activist Are Empirically Baseless
Contrary to forecasts of doom, crystal-clear science shows that a broad range of outcomes related to climate change have stayed level or improved for the past 30 years.
Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/climate-change-fears-of-teen-activist-are-empirically-baseless/
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Do Covid-19 Vaccines Save More Lives Than They Take?
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
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Analyzing Studies
For issues that are really important, you need to learn how to separate credible studies from unreliable ones.
A script of this video, documentation of every fact in it, and “Genius Notes” to help you apply these principles are available at https://www.justfactsacademy.org/analyzing
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Maximum Facts About the Minimum Wage
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
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Electric Car Canards
Contrary to California Governor Gavin Newsom and others who are forcing people into electric cars, they are NOT zero-emission vehicles, may emit more toxic pollutants than conventional cars, and can financially harm people.
Rigorous documentation of the facts in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/electric-cars-are-not-zero-emission-vehicles
Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification
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Every New Human Life Begins at Fertilization
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
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Nashville Covenant Christian School Killer Shooting Out Glass Entryways
Security footage from Covenant School in Nashville, TN showing Audrey Elizabeth Hale shooting out glass doors to enter the building on March 27, 2023.
For an article documenting how this could have been prevented, go to: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/four-underused-tools-to-stop-school-shootings
Video from the Metro Nashville Police Department.
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A Pandemic of Deceit, Not the Unvaccinated
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
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Face Masks: Science v. Politics
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.
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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
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Dissecting Vax Stats and Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19
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
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Beware of the “Fact Checkers”
Just Facts president Jim Agresti shares three crystal-clear examples of so-called “fact checkers” spreading blatant falsehoods. Do you notice the common thread between them?
Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/beware-of-the-fact-checkers/
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“Equity” Means Discrimination
Achieving “equity” often involves discrimination, which is forbidden by the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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On 5/21/23, anchor Linsey Davis reported on ABC’s World News Tonight, “The NAACP is issuing a formal travel advisory for Florida, saying the state has become hostile to black Americans under Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. Other civil rights groups have issued similar warnings in recent weeks. This as DeSantis is on the verge of entering the race for the White House.” https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/05/22/abcnbc-boosts-naacps-ridiculous-travel-advisory-florida
Florida recently enacted a law that reinforces the U.S. Civil Rights Act, which requires that every person to be treated equally under the law:
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000e-2
Civil rights are “the rights that every person should have regardless of his or her sex, race, or religion.” https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/civil-rights#:~:text=civil%20rights%20(noun)
The NAACP is a proponent of “equity.” https://naacp.org/about/mission-vision#:~:text=Our%20mission%20is%20to%20achieve,and%20all%20persons%20of%20color.
Equity “recognizes each person has different circumstances and needs, meaning different groups of people need different resources and opportunities allocated to them in order to thrive.” https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/equity-vs-equality/
In the words of Kamala Harris, “there’s a big difference between equality and equity,” and “equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.” https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1322963321994289154
Unequal treatment under the law is explicitly forbidden by the 14th Amendment, which states, “Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” https://www.justfacts.com/constitution#Amendment14
Unequal treatment under the law is embraced by many on the left, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/yes-the-u-s-constitution-forbids-government-from-racial-discrimination
One of the NAACP’s stated missions is to “eliminate discrimination” https://naacp.org/about/mission-vision#:~:text=Our%20mission%20is%20to%20achieve,and%20all%20persons%20of%20color.
The NAACP supported placing Hugo Black on the Supreme Court even after he was exposed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan: https://www.justfacts.com/racialissues#civil_newdeal
In 1943, Hugo Black authored the Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States, which allowed the Roosevelt administration to place innocent U.S. citizens of Japanese descent into detention camps during World War II: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/323/214.html
On 5/22/23, NBC News anchor Tom Llamas reported that the NAACP was “responding to what it calls DeSantis’ ‘aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida’s schools.’ Earlier this year, DeSantis blocked an advanced placement course in African American studies from being offered at Florida high schools.”
Florida law requires that schools to teach the history of African Americans, including the “ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping,” along with “slavery, racial oppression, and “racial discrimination.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=15
Florida law forbids public schools and colleges from teaching students that they are “superior,” “oppressed,” “privileged,” or guilty “by virtue of his or her race.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=9
Florida law doesn’t prohibit teaching of the racial tenets of leftism as long as this is done “in an objective manner without endorsement of the concepts.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=11
ABC News and NBC News footage is 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
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Who’s to Blame for Grocery Inflation?
Senator Elizabeth Warren blames “price gouging” by “giant grocery chains” for food inflation, but the real cause is trillions of dollars in federal deficit spending and money printing, enacted and supported by Warren & Co.
SOURCES:
Warren’s Claim
https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1663601255724249090
Food Price Indexes
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15FzY
Inflation Drivers
https://www.justfacts.com/monetarypolicy#inflation
Federal Spending
https://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt#causes-spending_taxes
$5.2 Trillion in Deficit Spending Voted for by Warren:
• $192 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201
• $1,800 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748
• $483 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/266/actions
• $868 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/133
• $1,844 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319
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The Border Is Less Secure Than Ever, and the Implications Are Deadly
Objective measures of border security (like gotaways and border-crossing deaths) show that the U.S. border is less secure than ever recorded, and the consequences are far-reaching and lethal.
Rigorous documentation of the facts in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-border-is-less-secure-than-ever-and-the-implications-are-deadly
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Blame for the Border Crisis
Using a propaganda technique called “projection,” ABC News and many other media outlets are blaming Trump & the Republicans for the massive flood of illegal immigration caused by Biden & the Democrats.
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In a recent episode of ABC’s World News Tonight, anchor David Muir reported, “For the first time in years, Republicans and Democrats have come up with a bipartisan plan to finally address the border. The other major headline on this late today, the conservative-leaning border patrol union, the officers who patrol the border, endorsing this bipartisan plan. But tonight, the House Speaker saying Republicans in the House are not interested, amid pressure from Donald Trump not to agree to any solution in a presidential election year.
Correspondent Rachel Scott then reported: “Tonight, Senate leaders unveiling the most sweeping border security package in decades. Republican leader Mitch McConnell reminding his party, this is something they wanted for years. [McConnell]: ‘Senate Republicans have insisted, not just for months, but for years, that this urgent crisis demanded action.’ ” https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1754701454772945179
99% of Republicans voted for and 100% of Democrats voted the House border security bill passed by Republicans. https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023209
The Republican bill would:
• “require DHS to construct at least 900 miles of wall and physical barriers along that border.”
• “limit both the rules of eligibility for aliens to apply for asylum in the United States and the circumstances under which asylum could be granted.”
• “significantly restrict DHS’s ability to grant parole, which permits aliens to temporarily enter the United States.”
• “create new criminal and civil penalties” for people who overstay their visas.
• “require all U.S. employers to use E-Verify, the federal web-based system for confirming eligibility to work.”
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-05/hr2.pdf
The Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t taken any action on the bill passed by House Republicans. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2/actions
House Republicans offered to negotiate a deal with Senate Democrats by combining their border security bill with aid for Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-republicans-standalone-143-bln-israel-bill-2023-11-02/
A group of 3 Senators spent 4 months behind closed doors crafting the Senate bill.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/05/sen_sinema_border_bill_solves_the_crisis_there_is_real_misunderstanding_about_the_border_emergency_authority.html
https://www.newsweek.com/border-bill-was-purposely-hidden-conservative-commentators-rand-paul-1867995
Senators unveiled the bill on Sunday, February 4, 2024.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/politics/senate-border-foreign-aid-bill/index.html
The Senate bill is 360+ pages long. https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf
Three days after they unveiled the text of the Senate bill, Democrats brought it a vote on February 7. https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/02/07/senate-schumer-ukraine-israel-republicans-democrats-border
ABC claims the Senate bill includes “$20 billion to strengthen the border—hiring new officers and border patrol agents. It includes a trigger mechanism. When migrant apprehensions reach 5,000 a day, the border will automatically shut down. And it makes it harder for migrants to claim asylum, expediting the process to address the backlog.” https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1754701454772945179
The Senate bill is rife with legalese, and when Fox News host Bret Baier said to Senator Kyrsten Sinema of AZ (the Independent architect of the act) that it was “painful” to read, she replied, “It was.”
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf#page=214
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/05/sen_sinema_border_bill_solves_the_crisis_there_is_real_misunderstanding_about_the_border_emergency_authority.html
Senator Chris Murphy of CT (the Democrat architect of the act) spelled out the following loopholes in series of posts on X:
• “The border never closes”
• There is only a “slightly higher asylum screening standard”
• Asylum “claims processed in a non-detained, non-adversarial way”
• “Most asylum seekers can work immediately”
• “brand new right to legal representation for all immigrants”
• “A new pathway to citizenship for Afghan parolees (the Afghan Adjustment Act) and the children of H1B holders”
• “It can only be used for a limited number of days per year. It sunsets in 3 years.”
• “The ports must process a minimum of 1400 claims a day.”
• “Emergency cases that show up in between the ports still need to be accepted”
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1754292302690812129
Without reporting any of Murphy’s statements about the loopholes, ABC aired on Good Morning America the following claim from Murphy: “Many Senate Republicans are going to oppose this bill because it’s too effective because Donald Trump is telling them, “No, keep chaos at the border. Don’t solve the problem because that’s good politics for us.” Well, that’s really bad for the country.” https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1754844542635851968
On World News Tonight, Rachel Scott reported, “Trump wants to run on immigration in November, and today called the deal a “great gift to Democrats, and a death wish for the Republican Party.” Now, many top Republicans who wanted a deal are doing an about-face.” https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1754701454772945179
In the same post from Trump’ that ABC quoted, Trump wrote that he opposes the bill because it:
• “only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day, when we already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done”
• “takes the HORRIBLE JOB the Democrats have done on Immigration and the Border, absolves them, and puts it all squarely on the shoulders of Republicans.”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111879340091575646
Like ABC News, a wide range of other media outlets reported without evidence that Republicans oppose the bill because it would fix the border crisis:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/politics/trump-republicans-immigration/index.html
https://time.com/6589254/border-biden-texas-trump/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/01/31/trump-republicans-stall-biden-bipartisan-border-reform/72400737007/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-trump-republicans-border
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/briefing/republican-border-bill-ukraine.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/immoral-republicans-rebuke-efforts-kill-immigration-deal-help-trump-rcna135732
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/border-crisis-security-senate-texas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/08/biden-border-trump-immigration/bf536878-c641-11ee-bbc9-9b5ca9b20779_story.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-blames-biden-for-border-crisis-that-gop-refuses-to-solve
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/02/why-republicans-dont-want-to-solve-the-border-problem.html
A longstanding propaganda technique is to falsely accuse others of one’s own misdeeds. This is called projection, and two telltale signs of are quoting people out of context and making baseless assertions about people’s intentions. In the words of scholarly works that detail this strategy:
• Start “by injecting the public with misleading information as if it came from these adversaries.”
• State some “facts” to establish credibility but mix them with “falsehoods” about “intentions and interpretations.”
• Then “slip from the facts, which would demand factual judgment, to moral terrain and to ethical judgment.”
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/how-to-thwart-the-nefarious-propaganda-technique-of-projection
For decades, Democrats have refused to deport the vast bulk of illegal immigrants, allowed them into the nation based on meritless claims of asylum, offered them more welfare, established sanctuary cities and entire states, and promised to make them citizens with full voting rights. https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#illegal_1990
The Biden administration took those policies to another level. https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#illegal_biden
The Biden administration repeatedly insisted the “border is secure” from 2021 through 2023:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cborder+is+secure%E2%80%9D&newwindow=1&sca_esv=fea8e79187cfd119&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2021%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F2023&tbm=
Under Biden, illegal immigrant gotaways have risen by 5.7 times, border crossing deaths have grown by 2.5 times, and migrant encounters have skyrocketed to heights that make prior surges look small by comparison. https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#illegal_border
An NBC News poll conducted Jan. 26–30, 2024 found that “Trump has the edge on securing the border and controlling immigration (35 points over Biden).” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-economy-presidential-race-rcna136834
An CBS News poll conducted Jan. 3–5, 2024 found that 68% of U.S. adults “disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling matters concerning the U.S.-Mexico border.” https://www.scribd.com/document/697109678/cbsnews-20240107-PDF2#1fullscreen=1
ABC News footage is 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
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B. Clinton: https://www.flickr.com/photos/veni/
Obama: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12863058@N08/
Biden: https://www.flickr.com/photos/prachatai/
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How Often Do Citizens Use Guns to Stop Violence?
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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Aaron Rogers, CNN & Blind Trust
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
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Deconstructing Polls & Surveys
Polls and surveys are indispensable tools for discovering valuable information, but we need to understand their inner workings in order to assess their accuracy.
A script of this video, documentation of every fact in it, and “Genius Notes” to help you apply these skills are available at https://www.justfactsacademy.org/polls
There is a dangerous hole in the U.S. education system: students are learning what to think instead of how to think. Be part of the solution by taking this free course at Just Facts Academy and sharing it with others: https://www.justfactsacademy.org/
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Food Stamp Fictions
Description:
People who take Food Stamps are 79% more likely to suffer from hunger than people with equivalent incomes who don’t take Food Stamps.
SOURCES:
In a recent episode of CBS News, anchor Anne-Marie Green claimed, “So, you know, people should sort of understand that this, the SNAP benefits, were sort of in place to help during the pandemic, but here’s what happened since then, since then. The price of food has gone through the roof, even when, you know, other prices have sort of stabilized or gone down, it’s still super expensive to buy food, particularly healthy food.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/
SNAP benefits (previously called Food Stamps) are automatically indexed every year to the prices of food: https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/allotment/COLA
SNAP benefits rose by 12.5% at the start of the 2023 federal fiscal year:
• In the 2022 fiscal year, “maximum allotments” for a family of four “will increase” to “$835.” https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fy-2022-cost-living-adjustments
• In the 2023 federal fiscal year, “maximum allotments” for a family of four “will increase” to “$939.” https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fy-2023-cola
• CALCULATION: ($939 – $835) / $835 = 12.5%
At the start of the 2022 federal fiscal year, the Biden administration raised Food Stamp benefits by 21%, well above the rate of food inflation: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105450
In the same CBS News episode, anchor Vlad Duthiers claimed, “So, as you are aware, economists have drawn parallels between this policy and reductions in poverty, real reductions.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/
The federal government doesn’t include SNAP benefits in its the official federal poverty measure: “The income and poverty estimates shown in this report are based solely on money income before taxes and do not include the value of noncash benefits such as those provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicare, Medicaid, public housing, or employer-provided fringe benefits.” https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-270.pdf
A USDA measure called “very low food security” roughly corresponds to “food insecure with hunger”: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2007/june/struggling-to-feed-the-family-what-does-it-mean-to-be-food-insecure/
Among households who are poor enough to receive Food Stamps, the rate of hunger is 79% higher for people who take Food Stamps than those who don’t:
• “Table 8. Percentage of households by food security status and participation in selected Federal nutrition assistance programs, 2021 … “With very low food security … Received SNAP benefits [=] 17.0 … Did not receive SNAP benefits [=] 9.5” https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/104656/err-309.pdf
• CALCULATION: (17.0 – 9.5) / 9.5 = 79%
Scholars have attempted to explain why “the prevalence of very low food security among households participating in SNAP was double that of nonparticipating households in the same low-income range” by theorizing that those who take SNAP benefits have “greater difficulty meeting their food needs” than those who don’t take SNAP benefits. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/79761/err-215.pdf
Scholars assume the theory above must be true because there’s no reason why giving people Food Stamps could increase hunger: “Using a multivariate logit regression framework, for example, Wilde and Nord (2005) estimate a negative impact of food stamp participation on food security even after controlling for unobserved fixed effects. Given no plausible mechanism through which food stamps would diminish food security, they conclude that their estimated coefficient is biased due to unobserved time-varying household characteristics.” https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/212843728.pdf
“Moral hazard” is “the risk that an individual or organization will behave recklessly or immorally when protected from the consequences.” https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Moral+Hazard
CBS News footage is 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
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