The Flouride In Water Argument Heats Up Again

Written by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

Mainstream media are widely promoting a study claiming that community water fluoridation has no effect on IQ, but critics told The Defender the study contains fundamental methodological errors that invalidate the authors’ conclusions. The Defender asked to be included in a media call with the study’s author, but was denied access

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Without Oil Economies Grind To A Halt. Is That The Intention?

Written by Mark P. Mills

One-fifth of global oil trade transits the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic risk that, given current events, has shattered supply-chain complacency in world energy markets. Similarly shattered is the illusion that the world is any less dependent on oil today than it was during the epoch-setting 1973–74 Arab oil embargo

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Darwin was right, vaccines will wipe us out

Written by Professor Edward Dutton -

There is much debate over problems caused by vaccines, but the focus is always on the damage they might do to individuals. We seem not to dare to look at what vaccines do to the health of the population across time: they destroy it.

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Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma Fined for Fraud and Kickback

Written by Ian Brighthope

Purdue Pharma, the architect of much of the U.S. opioid epidemic through its aggressive promotion of OxyContin, has once again been sentenced to pay fines-this time $225 million to the Department of Justice in a criminal settlement, with broader bankruptcy proceedings involving billions more from the Sackler family and the company itself (totalling around $5.5–7.4 billion in various penalties and settlements)

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