Trump indictment, Brian Hooker PhD, 1 in 36 Kids Have Autism, Prevalence and Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Silver dosage, Michael Boldin, Dragnet of Surveillance, TikTok ban, COVID emergency end, Vaccine fatigue and MORE!
March 31st, 2023 3-5PM ET
Friday on The Robert Scott Bell Show:
‘Shocked’ Donald Trump will face 34 counts of business fraud after NYC indictment: lawyer Joe Tacopina Donald Trump was “shocked” when he learned Thursday that a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict him, according to his attorney, who revealed the former president will face 34 counts when he’s arraigned next week. Joe Tacopina told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he talked to Trump, 76, after the indictment came down, saying they both learned about it through media reports and not from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. “He’s ready to fight. You know, he’s the toughest guy I know. He was shocked, you know, because we really weren’t — I was shocked,” Tacopina said of Trump’s reaction to the indictment. “I’ve never been more angry about a charge because today, the rule of law in the United States of America died. It’s dead. It’s dead,” Tacopina said. Tacopina added that he believes the reports that Trump will be charged with over 30 counts of business fraud. “We now heard 34 counts, and I guarantee you it’s going to be 34 counts when we find out next week,” he said.
Special Guest – Brian Hooker PhD,PE
Brian S. Hooker, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor of Biology at Simpson University in Redding, California, where he specializes in chemistry and biology coursework. Additionally, Hooker is the Senior Process Consultant at ARES Corporation, working closely on process design for the environment restoration industry. His design efforts focus on industrial biotechnology and chemical engineering principles.
Brian dedicated over 15 years as a bioengineer and the team leader for the High Throughput Biology Team and Operations Manager of the DOE Genomics: Genomes to Life (GTL) Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Dr. Hooker managed applied plant and fungal molecular biology research projects at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where systems biology researchers are focused on understanding gene and protein networks involved in individual cell signaling, communication between cells in communities, and cellular metabolic pathways.
In 1985, Dr. Hooker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California. He earned his Masters of Science degree in 1988 and his doctorate in 1990, both in biochemical engineering, from Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington.
Brian Hooker has many accomplishments to his credit including: co-inventor for five patents, recipient of the Battelle Entrepreneurial Award in 2001, and a Federal Laboratory Consortium Recognition Award in 1999, for his work on “Reactive Transport in 3-Dimensions.” The breadth of Hooker’s 60 science and engineering papers have been published in internationally recognized, peer reviewed journals.
He has a teenage son with autism and has been active in the autism community since 2002.
Prevalence and Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2020 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability characterized by persistent impairments in social interaction and the presence of restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviors, interests, or activities (1) that can cause a wide array of difficulties in social interaction, communication, and participation in daily activities. CDC began monitoring the prevalence of ASD in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996 as part of its Metropolitan Atlanta Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program (2). CDC established the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network in 2000 and used the model developed in metropolitan Atlanta to track ASD prevalence in additional areas of the country. Starting with the 2000 surveillance year, the ADDM Network has reported ASD prevalence for even-numbered years (3–12). This is the 11th surveillance summary published in MMWR and marks a period of 20 years of monitoring ASD in multiple U.S. communities. During the past two decades, ASD prevalence estimates of children aged 8 years from the ADDM Network have increased markedly, from 6.7 (one in 150) per 1,000 in 2000 to 23.0 (one in 44) in 2018 (3,12). In addition, overall ASD prevalence among White children was 50% higher than among Black or African American (Black) or Hispanic children in earlier years. (Persons of Hispanic origin might be of any race but are categorized as Hispanic; all racial groups are non-Hispanic). These gaps narrowed over time until ASD prevalence among Black and Hispanic matched prevalence among White children for the first time in 2016 and 2018, respectively (11,12). Similarly, robust associations between autism prevalence and higher socioeconomic status were observed in ADDM Network sites during 2002–2010 (13); however, this association was much more variable in 2018 (12). These patterns have largely been interpreted as improvements in more equitable identification of ASD, particularly for children in groups that have less access or face greater barriers in obtaining services (including diagnostic evaluations). However, consistent disparities for co-occurring intellectual disability exist because among all children with ASD, Black children have the largest proportion identified with intellectual disability (10–12).
https://twitter.com/ChildrensHD/status/1641583319342014464
Questions of The Day!
1 ounce (6 teaspoons) sounds like a lot of silver to take at once. The dosage on the bottles I’ve seen say, 1 teaspoon seven times a day for short term immune support. Is it safe to take that much all at once? Is 3 teaspoons of silver too much for people under 40 pounds (5 years and under)? Should we give them 1.5 teaspoons 3 times a day instead?
Jared
Can you recommend a good Naturopathic or Functional Medicine doctor in the Columbus area?
Thank you!
Jeanne
Hour 2
Special Guest – Michael Boldin
Critics Warn of ‘a Dragnet of Surveillance’ as U.S. Pushes Ahead With Plans for More ‘Smart’ Cities U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg last week announced $94 million in grant awards to fund 59 smart city technology projects across the country. Despite widespread and mounting pushback against biometric surveillance and control systems associated with smart city technologies and the failure of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) previous attempt to grant-fund smart city transformation in Columbus, Ohio, Buttigieg told The Verge he thinks “smart city technologies matter more than ever.” Cities just need to take a different approach — experimenting with and testing out different technologies first, rather than implementing a “grand unified system” all at once, Buttigieg said. The new grants, part of the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program, are the first round of $500 million in funding that will be awarded for smaller smart mobility projects over the next five years, authorized under the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Hawley, Paul clash on floor over TikTok ban Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) clashed Wednesday afternoon over the future of TikTok in a spirited exchange on the Senate floor that shows disagreements over how to regulate the controversial app cross party lines in Congress. The two conservative stars butted heads when Hawley attempted to gain unanimous consent to pass his bill to prohibit TikTok from operating in the United States and ban commercial activity with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. Paul immediately slapped down Hawley’s request. “There are two main reasons why we might not want to do this. The one would be the First Amendment to the Constitution. Speech is protected whether you like it or not. The second reason would be that the Constitution actually prohibits bills of attainder,” he said before objecting. “This fails on two egregious points, pretty obvious points. I think we ought to think about that,” he added. The Constitution prohibits bills of attainder, which allow the government to punish individuals or groups without a trial. Paul suggested that proponents of banning TikTok are peddling fear and argued that domestic Big Tech companies also collect vast amounts of data from American users without much scrutiny or interference from the federal government.
Biden won’t veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency, despite having expressed strong objections against it earlier this year, ensuring the bill is on an easy path to becoming law. It marks the second time in the new Congress that the Biden administration has signaled opposition to a Republican measure, rallying most Democrats in Congress to vote against it, only to soften its stance and let the legislation eventually become law. Just weeks ago, Biden stunned many fellow Democrats when he declined to veto a Republican-led bill to upend a new criminal code for the District of Columbia he and others in the president’s party opposed, allowing the GOP’s tough-on-crime push into the local government to become law. Republicans celebrated the turn of events Wednesday as a sign of their newfound influence in divided Washington, while Democrats quietly complained that the Biden administration had shifted its views. But the White House stood firm, and the Senate gave final approval, 68-23, sending the bill to Biden’s desk.
COVID vaccine fatigue: Study explores why many are refusing booster shots As the world continues to move toward a post-pandemic life — and as the World Health Organization (WHO) recently predicted that COVID-19 will end in 2023 as a public health emergency — Americans may have reached a state of “vaccine fatigue,” data suggests. A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers from the Medical University of Vienna, surveyed 6,357 people in Austria and Italy. They found that respondents’ “readiness to get vaccinated,” on a scale of 0 to 10, was relatively low — roughly 5.8 in Italy and 5.3 in Austria. The participants answered questions about vaccine-related costs, communication, incentives, emerging variants of the virus and vaccination requirements. The American Medical Association defines vaccine fatigue as “unwillingness or inaction toward vaccine information or instruction due to perceived burden or burnout.” In the U.S., evidence of vaccine fatigue can be seen in the dwindling numbers of people getting boosters for COVID vaccines. When the vaccines first became available in the winter of 2020-2021, there was a wave of relief — even enthusiasm in some corners — as people lined up to get the shot. By Sept. 1, 2022, 79.2% of Americans had gotten at least one dose and 67.8% had completed their full primary series of vaccines, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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