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A study exposes the shock rate of 'extreme' inbreeding in the UK
The pocket of England where up to 46% of women of Pakistani heritage are having children with their cousins - as study exposes the shock rate of 'extreme' inbreeding in the UK.
Cousin relationships are no longer a 'majority' in Bradford's female Pakistani community amid rising awareness of the birth defect risks.
A decade ago, a Government-funded surveillance project found that 62 per cent of Pakistani heritage women were in consanguineous relationships.
This figure has since dropped to 46 per cent, researchers say. t comes amid a push to ban first-cousins from marrying. Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed drew huge flak yesterday after speaking against the motion. A senior Tory said it was 'shocking' that an MP would 'defend this revolting practice'.
Experts began tracking the prevalence of consanguinity in Bradford – home to one of the UK's biggest Pakistani communities – in the late noughties. Almost 12,500 pregnant women were quizzed about their relationship status with the father of their child.
The Born in Bradford study was later repeated with another cohort of 2,400 women between 2016 and 2019.
Final results were published last month by Wellcome Open Research, a platform ran by the prestigious Wellcome Trust. Sharing an earlier version of the results with the BBC last year, Dr John Wright, chief investigator, spoke of the 'significant shift' seen in just under a decade.
He described cousin marriage as having gone from a 'majority activity to now being just about a minority activity'. Dr Wright added: 'The effect will be fewer children with congenital anomalies.'
The Born in Bradford figures, it was said, may indicate that the numbers of Pakistani people marrying cousins across the UK as a whole is also falling.
Reasons behind the fall are thought to include high educational attainment, stricter immigration rules and changes in family dynamics. Writing in their study, the team said: 'It may be we are seeing generational changes, and newly evolving societal norms.
'But these changes need to be monitored to see if they are indications of a lasting change and they need to be considered in other settings where consanguinity is common to see how widespread these reductions in consanguinity are.'
More than half of residents living in the Bradford West constituency, represented by Labour MP Naz Shah, are Pakistani. The figure is 36 per cent in Bradford East and nearly 17 per cent in Bradford South – the city's two other constituencies.
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Trump wants to cancel polio vaccines for children
On Saturday, June 17, 1916, an official announcement of the existence of an epidemic polio infection was made in Brooklyn, New York. Over the course of that year, there were over 27,000 cases and more than 6,000 deaths due to polio in the United States, with over 2,000 deaths in New York City alone - Wikipedia
President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top heath agency has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the vaccine used in the United States.
The lawyer, Aaron Siri, filed the petition in 2022 on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN, a nonprofit that challenges the safety of vaccines and vaccine mandates. Siri has been working closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a vaccine skeptic and Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services – to choose officials to serve in the incoming administration. He was also Kennedy’s personal lawyer during his own presidential campaign.
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Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination program against polio with RFK Jr.
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| Polio victim - Trump wants to cancel polio vaccines for all children |
Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.
When asked if he would sign off if Kennedy decided to end childhood vaccinations programs, Trump told Time magazine, "we're going to have a big discussion. The autism rate is at a level that nobody ever believed possible. If you look at things that are happening, there's something causing it."
When asked if the discussion could result in his administration getting rid of some vaccinations, Trump said: "It could if I think it's dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial, but I don't think it's going to be very controversial in the end."
Asked in the Nov. 25 interview if he thinks childhood autism is linked to vaccines, Trump said: "No, I'm going to be listening to Bobby," referring to Kennedy. Trump said he had a lot of respect for Kennedy and his views on vaccinations.
Kennedy, who opposed state and federal COVID-19 restrictions and was accused of spreading misinformation about the virus, has for years sown doubts over the safety and efficacy of vaccines, including asserting a debunked link between vaccines and autism.
Trump has suggested in the past that vaccines might be linked to autism. "I want to see the numbers," he said. "At the end of the studies that we're doing, and we're going all out, we're going to know what's good and what's not good."
The program has moved thousands into hotel rooms or shelters, while providing social services and keeping those former sidewalk encampments clear.
Many of the claims that vaccines cause autism can be traced to a retracted 1998 study published in medical journal The Lancet. The paper, written by British doctor Andrew Wakefield, has been widely discredited.
Research, including a 2014 meta-analysis
, opens new tab of studies involving more than 1.2 million children, found no association between vaccines and autism.
Autism advocacy group Autism Speaks says it "remains aligned with the scientific consensus, which confirms that vaccines do not cause autism."
Former FDA commissioner and current Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb has said if Kennedy follows through on his intentions to end vaccine mandates "it will cost lives in this country.”
He said lower vaccination rates could lead to large outbreaks of once nearly eradicated diseases like measles. "For every 1,000 cases of measles that occur in children, there will be one death. And we are not good in this country at diagnosing and treating measles,” Gottlieb told CNBC last month.
Kennedy disputes the anti-vaccine tag, but chaired the Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit organization that focuses on anti-vaccine messaging.
"He (Kennedy) does not disagree with vaccinations, all vaccinations. He disagrees probably with some," Trump said.
If he is confirmed to run HHS, Kennedy would oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which controls what vaccines are recommended for Americans and when they should receive them. It also runs the Vaccines for Children program that provides free vaccines for some children.
The remarks are in line with a comment Trump made in an interview with Meet The Press on Sunday in which he said that the potential risks from vaccines should be studied.
"I think vaccines are — certain vaccines — are incredible. But maybe some aren’t. And if they aren’t, we have to find out," he said.
During a presidential debate in his 2016 White House campaign, Trump appeared to embrace the debunked autism link. He said he was "totally in favor of vaccines," but suggested spreading out recommended inoculations over a longer period of time. "And I think you're going to have, I think you're going to see a big impact on autism."
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By Tim Reid and Michael Erman - Reuters
December 12, 20248:59 PM GMTUpdated 18 hours ago
RFK Jr. Adviser Sought To Have FDA Retract Approval Of Polio Vaccine
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| Victim of polio. Trump wants to cancel vaccination against it |
Aaron Siri, a lawyer who is helping to vet candidates for top health positions, has a history of challenging vaccine policies in courts. Candidates to fill roles in the incoming administration are specifically asked about their vaccine views, sources say.
The New York Times: RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked The FDA To Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death. That campaign is just one front in the war that the lawyer, Aaron Siri, is waging against vaccines of all kinds. (Jewett and Stolberg, 12/13)
Salon: "It Will Cost Lives": Trump Says He'll Talk With RFK Jr. About Discouraging Childhood Vaccines
In an interview with TIME Magazine published Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump said that he would discuss ending child vaccination programs with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist he has nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Asked if he would approve of any decision by Kennedy to end vaccination programs — insofar as he has that power, which is largely delegated to the states — Trump cited autism as a reason why he might. "We're going to have a big discussion," he said. "The autism rate is at a level that nobody ever believed possible. If you look at things that are happening, there's something causing it." His administration would get rid of some vaccinations if "I think it's dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial," Trump added. (Lu, 12/12)
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The polio vaccine developed by Dr. Salk and colleagues is licensed in the U.S. Before the polio vaccine, the disease had been a major cause of disability in children. About 16,000 cases of polio (paralytic poliomyelitis) occurred each year in the U.S. in the 20th century compared with none in 2020.
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Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation in Diary of CEO podcast
Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett is amplifying harmful health misinformation on his number-one ranked podcast, a BBC investigation has found.
Recent claims from guests - including that cancer can be treated by following a keto diet, rather than proven treatments - were allowed by the Dragons' Den star with little or no challenge. Experts have told us failing to question these disproven claims is dangerous because it creates a distrust of conventional medicine.
In an analysis of 15 health-related podcast episodes, BBC World Service found each contained an average of 14 harmful health claims that went against extensive scientific evidence. Flight Studio - the podcast production company owned by Mr Bartlett - said guests were offered "freedom of expression" and were "thoroughly researched".
The podcast launched in 2017 focusing on entrepreneurship and business. It soared in popularity as figures such as influencer Molly Mae and Airbnb founder Brian Chesky shared their tips for success. But in the past 18 months, Mr Bartlett has concentrated more on health, with guests presented as leading experts in their fields. Their views receive little challenge.
The interviews are also posted to Mr Bartlett's YouTube channel, which has seven million subscribers. Since this content shift last year, its monthly views have increased from nine million to 15 million.
Mr Bartlett told The Times in April he expected his podcast to make £20m this year, mainly from advertising.
YouTube Two of the YouTube thumbnails advertising the podcast. The top one shows Mr Bartlett's head on the left and a grey haired man with glasses and a suit on the right. On a black background is white lettering with the quote, 'these foods are fuelling cancer' with the last word highlighted in red. They have the DOAV logo in the corner. The second image has a man with short grey hair in front of a microphone. In the same style as the other photo, there's a quote in white lettering which says '2.3 million people will die yearly because of this!'. His episode is titled underneath, 'The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: We've Been Lied To About Medication!'YouTube
Mr Bartlett's production company said the podcast hosted a wide-range of guests
We looked at the 23 health-related episodes released between April and November this year, fact checking - with four medical experts - 15 which contained potentially harmful claims. The experts we spoke to were cancer research professor David Grimes, public confidence in healthcare professor Heidi Larson, NHS diabetes adviser Dr Partha Kar and surgeon Dr Liz O'Riordan.
We recorded harmful claims as advice that, if followed, could lead to negative health outcomes.
In that eight-month window, some guests billed as health experts shared accurate information, but most were spreading misleading claims. These included:
Anti-vaccine conspiracies, stating that Covid was an engineered weapon
Poly-cystic ovarian syndrome, autism and other disorders can be "reversed" with diet
Evidence-based medication is "toxic" for patients, downplaying the success of proven treatments
Podcasters may claim they are sharing information, but they are actually sharing harmful misinformation, says Prof David Grimes from Trinity College Dublin. "That's a very different and not empowering thing. It actually imperils all our health," he says. Podcasts in the UK are not regulated by the media regulator Ofcom - which sets rules on accuracy and impartiality. So Mr Bartlett is not breaking any broadcasting rules.
In a July episode, Mr Bartlett spoke to Aseem Malhotra, a doctor who became known during the pandemic for spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines. In the episode, Dr Malhotra says the "Covid vaccine was a net negative for society". Analysis by the World Health Organization shows that it saved many lives during the pandemic.
At the end of the episode, Mr Bartlett, who does not have a health background, justified the airing of the discredited views, saying he aimed to "present some of the other side" as "the truth is usually somewhere in the middle". He added that: "Ideas from the suffragettes, Gandhi and Martin Luther King were also received equally horrifically... so we have to be humble that an idea that may be important may trigger us, but it can't be censored."
In response to our investigation, Dr Malhotra told the BBC he "completely accept[s] that there are still some people who disagree with [his views]" and said that "does not mean that they have been debunked".
Headshot of Prof David Grimes who has short dark hair and is wearing a black t shirt and navy suit jacket. He is sitting on a red sofa with white wood panelled walls behind him.
Prof Grimes says doctors warn patients against restricting their diets while undergoing cancer treatment
In many of the podcast episodes, the guests claimed to know a simple solution to health issues which they believed mainstream institutions were hiding from the public. They often also advertised their products on the podcast.
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Jacqui Wakefield
Global Disinformation Unit, BBC World Service
Iran Threatens Jordan, Smuggles Arms to Palestinian Terrorists in Israel
The Israeli Air Force (IAF), in a recent airstrike, destroyed three cross-border smuggling routes from Syria to Lebanon, which were being used by Iran to bring ship weapons to still-functioning Hezbollah terrorist cells. The Israeli strike took place just hours before a ceasefire took effect on November 26 between Israel and Hezbollah.
Iran's special forces units, however, will no doubt continue their past efforts to smuggle arms through Jordan to Palestinian terrorist cells in Judea and Samaria ("the West Bank"). These smuggling operations will still enable terrorists there to kill Israelis and further entrench an atmosphere of fear among the hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens who live in Judea and Samaria.
In one publicized incident, Israel's internal security agency, the Shin Bet, seized caches of Iranian weapons being smuggled transported across Jordan's unguarded borders. The arms included anti-tank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, as well as Semtex and C-4 plastic explosives. The Shin Bet reported that the Special Operation Unit 4000 of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had been tasked with that mission. The latest shipment of weapons bound for Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria, intercepted and seized by Israel on November 27, 2004, was initiated from an IRGC camp in Syria.
Iran and its allies, Hamas and Hezbollah, have also been attempting to recruit Jordanians as agents. The project appears an attempt to destabilize the rule of the Hashemite dynasty of King Abdullah II by engaging in acts of sabotage. Jordan has also been under political pressure and military threats from Iran and Iranian proxy militias in Iraq.
If Jordan succumbs to Iran's designs, it would create yet another front against Israel. Kata'ib Hezbollah, the leading Iran-backed terrorist group in Iraq, has pledged to arm 12,000 Jordanian volunteers if they would embrace the anti-Israeli "resistance." Hamas official Khaled Mashaal also has been broadcasting to Jordan messages urging Jordanian citizens to join the "resistance."
Iran's increased interference in Jordan comes at a problematic time for the Jordanian government. Recent parliamentary elections reflect gains by the opposition. The Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamic Action Front, for instance, tripled its representation in Jordan's parliament, giving it one-fifth of the seats.
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