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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

NEW STUDIES SHOW PEDIATRIC “BEST PRACTICES” NOT BASED IN SCIENCE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Learning nothing from the opioid crisis, research misconduct and regulatory failure has opened the door to widespread public harm from new classes of weight loss and trans medicine drugs classes. Also, a new kind of scientific methodology is being brought to the forefront, driven by AI.

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0:00.0

Whoever is elected to lead this country is going to face a raging chronic disease

0:05.2

epidemic in children and they're going to face systemic issues at the core of

0:09.1

science and medicine and again going back to Robert Redfield is saying,

0:13.6

decisions by some to under report side effects,

0:16.3

criminal behavior, where have we seen this before?

0:18.6

Well, we saw this with Purdue Pharma,

0:20.7

the maker of OxyContin, this was one of the headlines here, they had to plead

0:23.7

guilty to federal criminal charges for misleading regulators.

0:27.3

Obviously, people know this led to, at the very least, massive health care costs, but

0:31.7

it's runaway addictions in this country and so

0:34.1

this lack of due diligence on the part of medicine is really a breakaway

0:38.4

speeds and we're seeing this now being created these little brush fires like which started with

0:43.6

OxyContin and Purdue Pharma we're seeing another sector this is a

0:46.8

weight loss injectable weight loss drugs and this started when the

0:51.0

FDA gave approval for these weight loss drugs for kids.

0:55.0

This was for obesity in teens 12 and up.

0:58.0

And as soon as that was done,

1:01.0

the AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics, came out right on the back of that and said,

1:05.6

consider drugs and surgery early for obesity and kids in their new guidelines.

1:09.9

And you look in these guidelines, it's jaw drop and they say children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13.

1:21.0

Those are the new guidelines.

1:23.0

And what you get then, and this is,

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