• Dec. 6, 2025, 8:00 AM ESTBy Jing Feng…
  • Russia Launches Drone Strike on Ukraine as Talks…
  • Dec. 6, 2025, 4:45 AM ESTBy Alexander SmithLONDON…
  • Dec. 6, 2025, 5:00 AM ESTBy Melanie Zanona,…

Be that!

contact@bethat.ne.com

 

Be That ! Menu   ≡ ╳
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Contact Us
  • Politics Politics
☰

Be that!

Waymo recalls cars for passing stopped school buses

admin - Latest News - December 6, 2025
admin
3 views 6 secs 0 Comments



Waymo recalls cars for passing stopped school buses



Source link

TAGS:
PREVIOUS
Acclaimed architect Frank Gehry dies at 96
NEXT
Dec. 5, 2025, 5:16 PM ESTBy Aria BendixAn anti-vaccine lawyer who has regularly sued federal and state health agencies spoke Friday at a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel — an unheard-of departure for the committee, which for decades was a trusted source for vaccine recommendations.The lawyer, Aaron Siri, has also served as the personal attorney for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist. Siri delivered a lengthy presentation about the childhood immunization schedule, chronicling what he said were concerning adverse events from routine vaccines and calling particular attention to vaccines for hepatitis B, pneumococcal disease and a combination shot for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). Previously, Siri has advocated for the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.Art Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center, said Siri’s presence at the meeting suggests that the panel, known formally as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is “trying to use a pre-committed ideology to get where they want to go, which is to get rid of childhood vaccination.” “This is a science issue, and he’s the wrong guy, with the wrong conflicts, with the wrong style, with the wrong information,” Caplan said.Siri also pointed to a supposed link between autism and vaccines given in the first six months of life — a claim that has been widely debunked — arguing that there are no studies to disprove the link. “If you’re going to say vaccines don’t cause autism, have the data to say it,” Siri said.Decades of research, including extensive probes into the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, has found no link between vaccines and autism. A large Danish study from July found no association between aluminum exposure from vaccines during the first two years of life and increased rates of neurodevelopmental disorders. And a massive review in 2021, which evaluated 138 studies, determined that MMR vaccines don’t cause autism.Siri suggested at the meeting that a shortcoming of several childhood vaccines is their failure to prevent transmission, pointing to research on a type of whooping cough vaccine in infant baboons. Public health experts argue that the goal of those shots is to prevent symptomatic disease and death. He further suggested that childhood vaccines weren’t properly evaluated for safety — despite decades of continuous monitoring for side effects.“The concern is that not one of them was licensed based on an inert, a placebo-controlled clinical trial,” Siri said.People who question the safety of vaccines often suggest that trials should be conducted with an inert placebo — meaning some trial participants would receive the new vaccine while others would receive an inactive substance like saline, to compare results.However, public health experts say there’s a legitimate reason not to use a placebo in some cases: It would be unethical to withhold the benefit of a vaccine from study participants, so trials often test new vaccines against older versions.“Siri’s claim that childhood vaccines were ‘never tested against placebo’ is a talking point, not a fact,” Dr. Jake Scott, an infectious diseases specialist at Stanford Medicine, said via text message. “Inert placebo-controlled trials exist for most of the routine childhood vaccines, including large studies using saline or sterile water controls published in major journals.” Scott testified before Congress in September that his research team had documented 398 randomized control trials that evaluate the active ingredients in childhood vaccines and use inert placebos such as saline or sterile water.Dr. Cody Meissner, a pediatrician and the only ACIP member who has previously served on the committee, said Siri’s presentation was “a terrible, terrible distortion of all the facts.”“For you to come here and make these absolutely outrageous statements about safety, it’s a big disappointment to me and I don’t think you should have been invited, I will be completely honest,” Meissner said during the meeting.Siri’s unorthodox presentation followed a day and a half of chaotic proceedings, in which advisory members and presenters made false claims about the safety and efficacy of hepatitis B vaccines and cherry-picked data. The committee voted Friday morning to roll back a long-standing recommendation for all newborns to get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead, the advisers said women who test negative for hepatitis B can consult with a health care provider about whether their baby should get the birth dose.Kennedy fired the previous members of the advisory panel in June over what he claimed were “persistent conflicts of interest,” and replaced them with a group that has largely expressed skepticism of vaccines.Siri disclosed a litany of conflicts at Friday’s meeting, including numerous ongoing lawsuits against the Department of Health and Human Services and its subsidiary agencies. Those include lawsuits over purported Covid vaccine injuries and exemptions to vaccine mandates, he said. Siri previously sued the CDC to compel it to turn over studies demonstrating that vaccines don’t cause autism.Siri said he was asked to speak Friday alongside Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. Hotez said he declined the request because “ACIP appears to have shifted its mission away from science and evidence-based medicine.” Offit, who has similarly accused the committee of becoming political, said he could not recall receiving an invitation, but would not have attended the meeting regardless.Caplan, the medical ethicist, said such a debate would not have been productive. “We don’t really need to debate evolution again, probably don’t need to debate settled opinion about whether we went to the moon — and we don’t need to debate this,” he said.Aria BendixAria Bendix is the breaking health reporter for NBC News Digital.
Related Post
November 5, 2025
Nov. 5, 2025, 9:46 AM EST / Updated Nov. 5, 2025, 10:04 AM ESTBy Alexander SmithRussia’s Vladimir Putin ordered top officials on Wednesday to submit plans for the possible resumption of nuclear testing, a direct response to President Donald Trump’s surprise instruction for the United States to begin testing for the first time in more than 30 years.In a televised meeting with his Security Council in Moscow, Putin said that he had warned the U.S. and others that if they “conduct such tests, Russia would also be required to take appropriate retaliatory measures.”He told the foreign and defense ministries “to do everything possible to gather additional information on this matter, analyze it in the Security Council, and submit coordinated proposals on the possible commencement of preparations for nuclear weapons testing.”Putin plans for nuclear testing in response to Trump00:51Several of Putin’s top officials backed the need for resumed tests.“We must respond appropriately to Washington’s actions,” Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said, urging his government “to begin preparations for full-scale nuclear testing immediately.”Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s chief of the general staff, added, “If we do not take appropriate measures now, we will miss the opportunity to respond promptly to the United States’ actions, since preparation for nuclear tests, depending on their type, takes several months to several years.”Russian Ambassador in Washington Alexander Darchiev had sent a telegram to U.S. officials “to clarify these controversial statements by U.S. President Donald Trump,” Sergey Naryshkin, chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, told the council.But “representatives from both the White House and the U.S. State Department declined to comment,” he added, “stating that they would report the information to their superiors and contact the Russian side if it will be deemed necessary to provide clarification.”The Security Council meeting was supposed to focus on transport security. However, Speaker of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin asked members to first comment on Washington’s announcement of renewed nuclear tests.NBC News has contacted the Pentagon and State Department for comment.The move comes after Trump announced last week that he had instructed the Defense Department to “immediately” start testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with other nations.The U.S. has not conducted a nuclear test since 1992, China and France last did so in 1996 and the Soviet Union in 1990.Trump’s order was widely criticized by nuclear scientists and nonproliferation experts, who said that Washington had little to gain from live drills, which would likely only embolden Moscow and Beijing.The U.S. has only one viable testing location, the former Nevada Nuclear Test Site near Las Vegas, which would take at least two years to get up and running, experts said.There has been little clarity from Trump and his team. Asked whether he planned to resume actual explosive nuclear tests underground, the president told reporters Friday, “You’ll find out very soon, but we’re going to do some testing, yeah.”He added: “Other countries do it. If they’re going to do it, we’re going to do it.”On Sunday, his energy secretary, Chris Wright, told Fox News that “these will be nonnuclear explosions” that would develop “sophisticated systems so that our replacement nuclear weapons are even better than the ones they were before.”Given the seemingly conflicting public statements from officials in Washington, Russia was “not entirely clear about the United States’ future actions and steps regarding the conduct or nonconduct of nuclear weapons tests,” Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu told the meeting.A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launches at Plesetsk testing field in northern Russia in footage released on Oct. 22.Russian Defense Ministry via AFP – Getty ImagesFor his part, Putin has often rattled the nuclear saber since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He has warned Western nations not to intervene in the conflict, suggesting he would not be afraid to use Moscow’s arsenals were they to do so.Last month, he said that Russia had conducted the first hourslong test of a nuclear-powered, nuclear-capable cruise missile capable of evading U.S. missile defenses. In response, Trump said he had a nuclear submarine “right off their shores.”According to the Norwegian government, the missile, the the Burevestnik, was launched from Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago off the northern coast of Russia. Belousov referred to this site again on Wednesday.”The readiness of the forces and assets at the central test site on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago allows for” nuclear tests to be implemented “within a short timeframe,” he said.Alexander SmithAlexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.Abigail Williams contributed.
October 7, 2025
Kibbutz Be'eri 2 years on from Oct. 7
September 26, 2025
Iranian president responds to reports of construction at nuclear facility
September 30, 2025
2nd detainee dies after Dallas ICE facility shooting
Comments are closed.
Scroll To Top
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Culture
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport
  • Contact Us
  • Politics
© Copyright 2025 - Be That ! . All Rights Reserved