Live from Vegas at ANMA, FDA Vaccine Claims, Amish Vaccine Showdown, Autism Action Committee, Common Cold Vaccine, Pandemic Industry Network, Processed Foods Cancer, Sugar Substitute Risks, Antibiotic Beef Concerns and MORE!
by Mark Dillinger | Aug 28, 2026 | Government and Media, Health Concerns, Natural Remedies, Show Notes, Social Issues & Policy, Social Issues & Politics, Uncategorized, Vaccines |
Friday on The Robert Scott Bell Show:
Hour 1
Former Top FDA Vaccine Officials Says Children Died From COVID-19 Vaccine Dr. Vinay Prasad, former director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a Reason interview that children died from COVID-19 vaccination, stating that kids died of vaccine-related myocarditis and that probable or possible attribution is the standard used across drug development because a standard of certainty is unattainable for that condition. A late-2025 memorandum from Prasad said FDA staff he directed to review VAERS death reports determined at least 10 child deaths were related to the shots, a figure later revised to seven in a report released by Sen. Ron Johnson, which Prasad said was changed for political or professional reasons. He also said a second unpublished report covering another age group judged three additional deaths related to COVID-19 vaccination. In a separate interview, Prasad said he believes in vaccines, opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates because data showed the shots did not halt transmission, and said the vaccines reduced severe disease and death while variants became less lethal and prior infection provided protection.
Amish threaten mass exodus from New York over vaccine fight —which is heading to the Supreme Court New York’s estimated 25,000 Amish are threatening to leave the state, possibly for Pennsylvania, if they lose Miller v. McDonald at the U.S. Supreme Court after the 2nd Circuit again rejected their challenge to the 2019 Cuomo-era repeal of religious exemptions from school vaccine requirements. The New York State Department of Health has fined at least three private one-room Amish schools a combined $118,000 at $2,000 per noncompliance citation, with attorneys saying every Amish school in the state faces the same situation and that the community could not pay without land confiscation. Plaintiffs including Ezra Wengerd wrote that putting trust in vaccines conflicts with their faith, while attorney Hiram Sasser asked whether the state still makes room for the Amish and attorney Aaron Siri said the community does not want to litigate but was left no choice. The Supreme Court earlier this year sent the case back to the 2nd Circuit, which reissued its original ruling, and lawyers plan to petition the high court again next month. An NY DOH spokeswoman said the department’s duty is to protect public health and enforce immunization requirements based in science, while an HHS spokesperson said President Trump’s recent executive order reaffirmed parental choice and religious freedom on childhood vaccination.
‘We Move With Urgency Now’: Federal Autism Committee Votes to Focus on Action, Accountability The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee voted August 27, 2026, to adopt a working strategic plan that Chair Sylvia Fogel said is meant to track what federal agencies do and whether those efforts produce measurable results, telling members “We move with urgency now.” The plan seeks to coordinate research, diagnosis, treatment, education, disability services and caregiver support by linking evidence to agency responsibility and measurable deliverables, after a 2024 GAO review found federal autism coordination only partially followed leading accountability practices. Fogel said the committee received 5,265 public comments over four months, more than in the prior 10 years combined, and rejected claims from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and 15 other groups that the process shut out the community. Vaccines were a major public-comment theme, with about 1,500 comments asking they be considered, while the draft does not list vaccines as a research priority; member Laura Cellini said the plan is “agnostic on triggers,” and CHD’s Brian Hooker called the document significant but said omitting vaccines left a gap. The plan notes NIH autism research was 38.5% genetics and genomics versus 5.8% environmental factors and cites CDC prevalence of about 1 in 31 children in 2022 versus 1 in 150 in 2000, with Walter Zahorodny arguing the rise is a true increase rather than only better diagnosis.
Early trials for vaccine for common cold are ‘encouraging’, scientists say An early trial of vaccine candidate APL-10456 by Imperial College London and Apollo Therapeutics induced immune responses against all three major rhinovirus species in 144 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 54 and was described as well tolerated, a result researchers called a significant milestone because about 180 rhinovirus strains circulate worldwide across species A, B and C. Rhinoviruses cause most common colds and are a major trigger of asthma and COPD exacerbations. The first phase tested three single-dose levels, a second phase is underway with results expected by the end of the year, and a study in COPD patients is expected to start in the first half of 2027. Professor Sebastian Johnston said developing a rhinovirus vaccine had long been considered out of reach and that further research is still needed to determine whether the shot can prevent infection or reduce illness in people with asthma, COPD and other respiratory conditions.
Hour 2
7 Federal Agencies & Big Pharma Quietly Built A Pandemic-Industrial Complex Jon Fleetwood writes that HHS created the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise in July 2006, nearly 14 years before COVID-19, centralizing ASPR, CDC, FDA, NIH, DOD, DHS and VA around an end-to-end pipeline from threat detection through research, development, procurement, stockpiling, deployment and use of medical countermeasures. A September 2006 draft strategy and April 2007 implementation plan said PHEMCE would define and prioritize countermeasure requirements, coordinate development and procurement, set Strategic National Stockpile use strategies, and require government, industry and academia to “align and synchronize,” while naming pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology firms and clinical research organizations as needed partners and proposing streamlined regulation, lower investment obstacles and liability protections. The plans said government procurement could “drive industrial development,” NIH should maintain a continuous product stream aligned with future acquisitions, and benefits included storage, utilization and deployment, not only curing disease. Fleetwood argues this creates a conflict if the same ecosystem helps define a threat, fund related research, set product requirements, regulate, buy and deploy the products, noting HHS warned in 2006 that laboratory-engineered organisms might be mistaken for naturally occurring agents and that a laboratory origin for COVID-19 is now a mainstream hypothesis.
Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to 30% Higher Prostate Cancer Risk A Florida Atlantic University analysis published in The American Journal of Medicine of 17,024 U.S. men age 18 and older in NHANES from 2003 to 2023 found that higher ultra-processed food calorie intake was associated with greater subsequent prostate cancer risk. Using two 24-hour dietary recalls and NOVA classification, men getting more than about 20 percent of calories from UPFs had a 29 percent higher risk than those below that level, and men in the two highest groups, above about 44 percent, had a 30 percent higher risk, with adjusted increases of 24 to 31 percent after accounting for age, race and ethnicity, smoking, and poverty. UPFs supply nearly 60 percent of U.S. adult calories and about 70 percent of children’s, and the authors note prior links to obesity, metabolic disease, cardiovascular disease, and premature death while calling for larger observational studies and randomized trials. The American Cancer Society estimates more than 333,000 U.S. prostate cancer diagnoses and more than 36,000 deaths in 2026.
Popular Sugar Substitute Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke A study of 17,710 participants from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging and the EPIC-Norfolk cohort, scheduled for presentation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2026, found that people with blood xylitol levels in the highest quarter had a greater long-term risk of major cardiovascular events than those in the lowest quarter. In CLSA, followed for six years, the highest group had a 57 percent greater risk after adjustment for age, sex, smoking, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure; in EPIC-Norfolk, followed for 30 years, the increase was 18 percent, with a dose-dependent pattern independent of BMI, blood pressure, diabetes and lipids. Presenter Dr. Marco Witkowski of Charité University Hospital said artificial sweeteners are widely viewed as safer than sugar and generally regarded as safe, but little is known about xylitol’s cardiovascular safety as its use in foods, drinks and dental products increases. Nutritionist Kirsty Thomas and ESC’s Professor Dan Atar said the findings are observational, causality is hard to infer, and people should not change diets based on one study alone.
Major fast food chains may still be sourcing beef raised with antibiotics, report asserts A report from the Food Animal Concerns Trust, Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition and US PIRG Education Fund says McDonald’s, Subway and Taco Bell have not shown they met 2016–2019 pledges to cut or end routine antibiotic use in beef, citing websites, public communications and unanswered requests for updates, while the companies did not respond to The New Lede. Taco Bell had pledged a 25 percent reduction in antibiotic use in beef by 2025, Subway pledged to serve only meat raised without routine antibiotics by 2025, and McDonald’s pledged major reductions with public reporting from 2022. McDonald’s 2022 policy says habitual use of medically important antibiotics for disease prevention is not permitted except in narrowly defined cases, Taco Bell says it is working to reduce such antibiotics in U.S. and Canada beef, and Subway details antibiotic-free chicken but not beef. FDA data show antibiotic sales for food animals rose 16 percent from 2023 to 2024, though still 27 percent below the 2015 peak after 2017 rules barred medically important antibiotics for growth promotion. CDC figures cited in the article estimate more than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections and more than 35,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
Dads’ junk food diet could have ‘long-reaching effects’ on offspring – study University of Auckland Liggins Institute research in rats found that a father’s high-sugar, high-fat junk food diet can pass obesity-related effects to offspring through sperm, with those effects lasting into adulthood even when the young ate normal diets. Dr Ben Albert said offspring of junk-food-fed fathers had greater body weight and body fat, higher blood pressure, abnormal metabolism and altered insulin function that increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, and that in some cases the father’s diet appeared more influential than the mother’s. He said a child conceived when a father is carrying extra weight may start with higher risk of weight problems and diabetes, making later lifestyle choices more important but also harder. Sperm development takes about two months, so researchers hope improving a father’s health for roughly that period before conception might help, though that has not yet been tested, and the team hopes findings could support preconception clinics for men.
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