Makary, RFK Jr. Exaggerate Chronic Disease Benefits of Menopausal Hormone Therapy - FactCheck.org

Many doctors agree with the Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to remove the black box warnings on at least some forms of hormone therapy used to treat the symptoms of menopause. But in making the announcement, health officials misleadingly suggested that women could take the drugs for long-term benefits to the heart and brain. Menopausal hormone therapy is not currently recommended for those uses.

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“Abortion is never medically necessary to save a woman’s life, fact : there are absolutely certain medical conditions that warrant us to very urgently encourage a woman to have an abortion,” said Stacey Beck, MD and Assistant Professor at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Physicians “ https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/termination-of-pregnancy-can-be-necessary-to-save-a-womans-life-experts-say-idUSL1N2TC0VD/
Can Epstein files be unredacted with a simple copy and paste? What we know

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Fact-checking falsehoods about Epstein’s client list, his island and his involvement with Trump

Claim by Don Trump: The Epstein files were “made up” by former FBI Director James Comey and former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

@politifact rating: False
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The Files consist of real investigative records, testimony and court documents — not opinions nor speculations; neither Obama nor Biden were in office during key Epstein investigations, and Comey was not working at the FBI at the time.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/dec/17/fact-check-Jeffrey-Epstein-Trump-Clinton-files/

Fact-check: falsehoods about Jeffrey Epstein files, island

Years after his death, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remains the subject of news headlines and false claims. With the White House’s anticipated Dec. 19 release of Epstein-related files, PolitiFact looked back at our coverage.

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Claim by Don Trump: Recommending more childhood vaccines is harmful or unnecessary.

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Vaccines are added through evidence-based review for safety and effectiveness, and the total number of antigens children receive today is lower than in the past.

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False

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/12/trump-fda-make-misleading-international-vaccine-schedule-comparisons/

Trump, FDA Make Misleading International Vaccine Schedule Comparisons - FactCheck.org

Echoing a longstanding anti-vaccine trope, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that the American vaccine schedule "long required" babies to get "far more" vaccines than are given in "any other" country, and he directed health officials to better "align" practices with those of other countries. The recommended schedule in the U.S. is quite similar to that of other high-income nations, and it isn't a federal mandate.

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He did not learn until later that he had witnessed a #US attack on an *alleged* Islamic State camp.

#Trump announced late Thursday that the US had launched a “powerful & deadly strike” against forces of the Islamic State group in #Nigeria. The Nigerian government has since confirmed that it cooperated with the US government in its strike.

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“When you try to reduce it to just say, ‘Oh, no, it’s #Muslims killing #Christians in #Nigeria,’ you see how you can get it completely wrong. It’s a regional conflict,” he added.

He made the same argument in an interview Friday with CNN. In that interview, when asked whether he would allow #US troops on the ground in the country — a reference to #Trump’s threat to go “guns-a-blazing” into the country — he said it was a matter for the Nigerian military to consider.

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Referring to his discussion with #MarcoRubio, he said it was agreed that statements by the 2 governments “would show clearly that it is a strike against #terrorism ... & that it is not to do with #religion, is to do with protecting Nigerians & innocent lives.”

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“This is what we’ve always been hoping for — to work with the Americans, work with other countries to combat terrorism,” he said. But in several media interviews after the strikes, he pushed back against the framing of the country’s #security issues as being about #religion.

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