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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Episode 462: CLIMATE OF CHANGE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 362 minutes

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Summary

This week on The HighWire, a precedent-setting $2 million malpractice verdict signals a turning point in how courts are treating medical interventions performed on minors. As more states extend statutes of limitations, accountability is finally entering a space long shielded from liability.Jefferey Jaxen also unpacks how powerful narratives—pandemic, climate, and beyond—are constructed, defended, and enforced, even when evidence begins to fall apart.Then, a chilling look at the future: artificial intelligence is now being used to assist in biological research, including the creation of entirely new viruses. What safeguards exist—and who decides what lines shouldn’t be crossed?Plus, Del speaks with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton about medical freedom, patient consent, and an investigation into financial incentives driving medical decision-making.Guest: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

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the informed consent action network.

0:28.7

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0:30.9

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0:33.6

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0:36.0

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0:41.3

All right, everyone, we ready?

0:43.3

Yeah!

0:44.3

Let's do this.

0:45.3

Action.

0:46.3

Action. Good morning, good afternoon, good afternoon,

1:02.0

wherever you are out there in the world, it's that time to step out into the high

1:07.1

wire.

1:08.5

You know, there's always these conversations.

1:13.3

We bat around phrases like misinformation,

1:19.4

disinformation, of course. We were censored in the middle of COVID, which in many ways just gave us a lot of free advertising. But so many of you write in, so many people talk about the fact that

1:24.9

it's like we're living in two different worlds. Sometimes if you

1:28.5

just try to listen to that other media station, you're listening thinking, how is it you're

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