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The Silent Epidemic: Why Your Child’s Future Hangs in the Balance:

As a seasoned journalist embedded with the trailblazers at Children’s Health Defense (CHD), I’ve witnessed firsthand the relentless pursuit of truth by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Brian Hooker. Their groundbreaking book, Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Skyhorse Publishing, 2023), isn’t just another opinion piece, it’s a meticulously curated arsenal of over 100 peer-reviewed studies that dare to compare the vaccinated against the unvaccinated. And what these studies reveal? Unvaccinated individuals often emerge healthier, with dramatically lower rates of chronic conditions that plague our society.

Published

8 months ago

March 1, 2026

Shannon

And How ‘Vax-Unvax’ Exposes the Truth Big Pharma Buried

Imagine this: You’re watching your child play in the park, full of energy, laughter echoing through the air. But deep down, a nagging doubt creeps in. What if the very things you’ve been told to trust; the shots, the schedules, the assurances from experts, are quietly eroding that vitality? What if the rising tide of autism, allergies, asthma, and unexplained illnesses isn’t just bad luck, but a direct consequence of choices we’ve been pressured to make? You’ve felt it, haven’t you? That quiet unease when you hear another story of a healthy kid suddenly struggling. It’s time to stop ignoring it. It’s time to let the science speak for itself.

As a seasoned journalist embedded with the trailblazers at Children’s Health Defense (CHD), I’ve witnessed firsthand the relentless pursuit of truth by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Brian Hooker. Their groundbreaking book, Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Skyhorse Publishing, 2023), isn’t just another opinion piece, it’s a meticulously curated arsenal of over 100 peer-reviewed studies that dare to compare the vaccinated against the unvaccinated. And what these studies reveal? Unvaccinated individuals often emerge healthier, with dramatically lower rates of chronic conditions that plague our society. This isn’t conjecture; it’s data that’s been hidden in plain sight, suppressed by powerful interests who profit from your silence.

*Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak (Skyhorse Publishing, 2023)*

Picture yourself flipping through the pages of Vax-Unvax, feeling that rush of empowerment as the fog lifts. Kennedy, a New York Times bestselling author and environmental crusader, teams up with Hooker, a PhD in biochemical engineering with decades of experience dissecting vaccine data, to lay it all bare. Foreword by Del Bigtree, the Emmy-winning producer behind Vaxxed, this book isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for parents, doctors, and truth-seekers who refuse to let their loved ones become statistics in a system rigged against them.

“Unvaccinated kids showed a staggering four times lower rate of chronic illnesses.”

Let’s dive into what the science actually says, because once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Take the Mawson study from 2017, a pilot comparison of homeschooled children. Unvaccinated kids showed a staggering four times lower rate of chronic illnesses. Allergies? Near zero in the unvax group compared to over 10% in vaccinated. Asthma? Virtually nonexistent. Ear infections and neurodevelopmental disorders? Drastically reduced. As you read this, imagine the relief of knowing your child could avoid these burdens. Hooker and Kennedy don’t just cite it; they dissect it, showing how Big Pharma’s lobbyists worked to retract and discredit it – but the data endures.

“Vaccinated children faced odds ratios skyrocketing: 4.49 times more likely to have asthma, 3.45 times for ear infections, over twice the risk for developmental delays and GI disorders.”

Or consider the Hooker and Miller analysis from 2020, pulling from real medical records across three practices. Vaccinated children faced odds ratios skyrocketing: 4.49 times more likely to have asthma, 3.45 times for ear infections, over twice the risk for developmental delays and GI disorders. Feel that chill? That’s the weight of evidence that’s been swept under the rug. Kennedy often references this in his CHD podcasts, emphasizing, “We’ve been told to follow the science, but when the science challenges the narrative, it’s censored.” And as you nod along, realizing he’s right, you start to see why this book is a game-changer.

“Geier’s 2014 dose-response study tied mercury exposure from thimerosal to increased risks of autism, ADHD, and tics.”

Dark clouds gather when we look at autism. The Gallagher and Goodman study (2010) found boys vaccinated with Hepatitis B at birth had triple the autism diagnosis rate. Delong’s 2011 research linked higher vaccination uptake to surging autism prevalence across states. Geier’s 2014 dose-response study tied mercury exposure from thimerosal to increased risks of autism, ADHD, and tics. Kennedy hammers this home in interviews: “The epidemic didn’t start until the vaccine schedule exploded. Coincidence? The studies say no.” As you absorb these facts, a sense of urgency builds – why risk it when the unvaccinated thrive?

“Five to ten times higher death risk post-DTP.”

But it’s not just neuro issues; mortality itself is on the line. Aaby’s work in Guinea-Bissau (2005, 2007) revealed unvaccinated children with lower death rates, while DTP-vaccinated girls faced double the mortality. Mogensen’s 2017 natural experiment? Five to ten times higher death risk post-DTP. In low-income settings, yes, but Kennedy and Hooker argue these non-specific effects echo globally, overwhelming young immune systems. Miller and Goldman’s 2011 international comparison showed nations with more vaccine doses suffering higher infant mortality. Lyons-Weiler and Thomas (2020) found vaccinated kids racking up two to five times more doctor visits for everything from respiratory woes to skin issues. Goldman and Miller’s 2012 follow-up? Dose-dependent hospitalizations and deaths climbing with each jab.

You know that feeling when a trusted friend reveals a secret that’s been staring you in the face? That’s Vax-Unvax. It paces with your concerns; the allergy epidemics, the asthma inhalers in every backpack, the autism rates now at 1 in 36, and leads you to the inescapable conclusion: We’ve been misled. Big Pharma rakes in billions while our kids pay the price. But here’s the good news: You can arm yourself. Right now, as you envision a healthier future for your family, picking up this book becomes the natural next step.

““This book changed everything for me,” shares one parent in a testimonial.“

Social proof abounds. Thousands have already awakened through CHD articles and Kennedy’s appearances on Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and beyond. “This book changed everything for me,” shares one parent in a testimonial. “Finally, real science, not soundbites.” Doctors are whispering about it in hallways, policymakers are taking note. But scarcity looms, with censorship ramping up, copies could vanish from shelves. Don’t wait; secure yours today and join the movement.

Embedded in every chapter are calls to action: Demand the large-scale vax-unvax studies the CDC avoids. Question the schedule. Protect your loved ones. As Hooker states, “The data is clear: Unvaccinated groups consistently show better outcomes. It’s time we listened.” Kennedy adds, “This isn’t about anti-vax; it’s pro-science, pro-health.”

In a world where truth is the ultimate rebellion, Vax-Unvax is your weapon. Feel the pull? That’s your intuition guiding you. Head to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or childrenshealthdefense.org now, before it’s too late. Buy the book, read the studies, and let the science speak. Your child’s tomorrow depends on what you do today.

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The Screwtape Letters in New Brunswick | Nov. 7–8

Published

16 hours ago

November 7, 2026

Shannon

Promotional artwork for C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters stage production at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

More than 80 years after C.S. Lewis imagined a senior demon giving advice to his younger apprentice, The Screwtape Letters is still finding new audiences.

This weekend, the battle moves to New Brunswick.

Fellowship for Performing Arts is presenting its stage adaptation of Lewis’ Christian satire at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, with two performances today, Saturday, November 7, at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., followed by a final performance Sunday at 3 p.m.

The production runs 90 minutes without an intermission and is recommended for audiences 13 and older. Children under 4 are not admitted. A short discussion follows the performance.

Hell Has an Office

The premise remains one of the most unusual in Christian literature.

Rather than telling its story from the perspective of a believer resisting temptation, The Screwtape Letters turns the camera around.

Screwtape is a senior demon in Hell advising his inexperienced nephew, Wormwood, on how to corrupt an ordinary human being referred to simply as “the patient.”

God becomes “the Enemy.”

Virtue becomes a problem.

Everyday weaknesses become opportunities.

The humor comes from watching familiar human behavior described from the opposite moral perspective.

Lewis first published the letters in installments during 1941 before the complete book appeared in February 1942. The work became one of his earliest major commercial successes, years before The Chronicles of Narnia made him a household name.

Taking an Epistolary Book to the Stage

Turning that structure into theater presents an obvious challenge.

The original work consists largely of letters from one demon to another, not conventional scenes filled with dialogue and action.

Fellowship for Performing Arts founder and artistic director Max McLean adapted and directed the stage production, transforming Screwtape’s correspondence into a theatrical performance centered on the demon’s office in Hell.

FPA describes the production as a faithful adaptation exploring temptation, spiritual warfare and human behavior through Lewis’ wit and satire.

The production has developed a long life of its own.

Fellowship for Performing Arts says The Screwtape Letters has previously had an extended New York run, a sold-out engagement in London and five U.S. tours. The organization has also acquired film rights to the work and announced plans to develop a motion-picture version.

Faith Without a Conventional Sermon

Lewis rarely approached Christianity by simply telling readers what to think.

In The Screwtape Letters, he used satire.

That gives the work an unusual place in religious literature and makes it particularly suited to a theater company trying to reach beyond a strictly church audience.

Fellowship for Performing Arts describes its mission as creating theatre and film from a Christian worldview for a diverse audience. The New York-based company has produced several works connected to Lewis and Christian thought.

The New Brunswick engagement is straightforward about its religious foundation, but the material itself spends much of its time examining recognizable habits: pride, distraction, selfishness, relationships and the small compromises people make without thinking much about them.

That may help explain why a book written during World War II can still fill theaters in 2026.

The technology changes.

Human nature is a little harder to update.

What to Know

C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
11 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Saturday, November 7: 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 8: 3 p.m.

The production runs approximately 90 minutes with no intermission. Ticket availability varies by performance and seating section.

For readers who know Lewis primarily through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Screwtape Letters shows a very different side of the same writer.

No wardrobe.

No talking lion.

Just a demon at his desk trying to explain why human beings make his job so easy.

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Westfield Goes Full Addams: How One New Jersey Town Turned Halloween Into a Hometown Tradition

Published

4 weeks ago

October 9, 2026

Cru Jones

Every October, Westfield gets a little stranger.

Storefronts become creepy, front yards compete for bragging rights, visitors wander through an old cemetery by lantern light, and one of New Jersey’s most familiar fictional families seems to turn up everywhere.

There is a reason for it.

Westfield was home to Charles Addams, the cartoonist whose darkly funny drawings eventually became The Addams Family. In 2026, the Union County town celebrated that connection with the ninth annual AddamsFest, a monthlong series of events built around Addams, Halloween and the particular kind of humor that made his work famous.

What started in 2018 has become one of New Jersey’s more unusual fall traditions.

Before Wednesday, There Was Westfield

Charles Addams was born in 1912 and grew up in Westfield before going on to become a celebrated cartoonist whose work appeared regularly in The New Yorker.

The characters that would become the Addams Family first existed as individual cartoons rather than as the television family most people recognize today.

Decades later, Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley and the rest of the clan have survived television series, movies, animation, Broadway and, most recently, Netflix’s Wednesday.

Westfield has increasingly embraced its connection to the man who created them.

That connection now extends beyond putting his name on a plaque.

For a month, the town essentially turns itself into an Addams Family destination.

Walking Through Addams’ Westfield

One of the most interesting parts of AddamsFest is the Charles Addams Heritage Trail.

Guided tours on October 10, 17 and 24 retraced Addams’ childhood route through Westfield, including his home, school, downtown and the historic cemetery where he spent time as a boy. A self-guided version of the trail is also available for visitors who want to explore on their own.

The cemetery itself became part of the festival through lantern burial-ground tours.

That may sound like something created for Halloween tourism, but it fits Addams unusually well. His fascination with graveyards, old houses and the slightly unsettling side of ordinary suburban life began long before anyone knew the name Wednesday Addams.

The Associated Press highlighted Westfield’s transformation this fall, noting how the town has turned Addams’ childhood environment into a destination for fans of his work.

The Entire Town Gets Involved

AddamsFest is not confined to one park or one weekend.

Throughout October, downtown businesses participated in Wicked Windows of Westfield, with storefronts painted and decorated in Halloween and Addams-inspired scenes. Residents entered the annual Haunt Your House competition, with community voting determining favorite daytime and nighttime displays.

Mindowaskin Pond even received a floating Addams Family house installation.

The festival’s 2026 art exhibition, AddamsFest Americana, connected the celebration to America’s 250th anniversary. Original works by Charles Addams, loaned by the Tee & Charles Addams Foundation, were displayed alongside work by local artists examining American places, traditions and everyday life through an Addams-inspired lens.

There was also an Addams Family Fun Day on October 18, an outdoor screening of The Addams Family on October 23 and a downtown Wednesday Night Crawlers bar crawl on October 28.

For adults looking for something more elaborate, Morticia and Gomez’s Masquerade Ball returned October 10 at the James Ward Mansion with food, drinks, entertainment and costumes encouraged.

A Hometown Finally Owning Its Weirdness

There is something particularly New Jersey about the whole thing.

Plenty of towns can manufacture a Halloween festival.

Westfield does not need to invent the backstory.

One of the most recognizable families in American pop culture can trace its origins back to a cartoonist who grew up walking these streets, visiting these buildings and finding humor in the strange side of ordinary suburban life.

That gives AddamsFest something most themed festivals cannot buy.

A real connection.

And with Wednesday introducing another generation to Charles Addams’ characters, Westfield’s hometown story suddenly feels current again.

For most of the year, it is a polished suburban New Jersey town.

For October, it belongs to the Addams Family.

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Is the Jersey Shore Becoming Too Expensive for the Families Who Built It?

Published

3 months ago

August 5, 2026

Shannon

For generations, a trip “down the Shore” has been more than a vacation.

It’s a tradition.

The same beach house every summer. The same pizza on the boardwalk. The same miniature golf course where the kids insist on keeping score, even though no one remembers who won last year.

For many families in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, these rituals have become part of the family story.

But this week, a viral social media video reignited a question many have quietly been asking for years:

Has the Jersey Shore become too expensive for the very families that helped make it what it is?

The discussion began after a Philadelphia mother shared that her family spends roughly $10,000 each year to rent a Shore house. That figure, she explained, doesn’t include groceries, beach badges, gas, restaurant meals, or many of the other expenses that come with a week at the beach. Her comments drew thousands of reactions from people who questioned whether the cost could possibly be justified.

Some commenters suggested that for the same money, families could travel to Europe or spend a week at a Caribbean resort.

Others immediately pushed back.

Because to many Shore families, they argued, that’s missing the point.

You don’t come to the Jersey Shore because it’s the cheapest vacation.

You come because it’s your vacation.

You return to the same streets where your parents pushed your stroller. You stop at the same ice cream stand. You wave to neighbors you’ve only seen one week each summer for the last twenty years. Your children grow up with friends they may only see during that single week in July.

That kind of tradition is difficult to put a price on.

Still, the financial reality is impossible to ignore.

Research released earlier this summer found that the overall cost of a Jersey Shore vacation has risen by more than 11 percent compared with last year, while weekly rental prices in several popular Shore towns increased dramatically. Rising property values, insurance costs, taxes, fuel prices, and everyday expenses have all contributed to the increase.

For many working families, that means difficult decisions.

Do you shorten the trip?

Stay farther from the beach?

Skip dinners out?

Or simply decide that this is the year you don’t come at all?

These aren’t just economic questions.

They’re cultural ones.

The Jersey Shore has never belonged exclusively to one income group. Its identity has been built by firefighters, teachers, nurses, police officers, tradesmen, small business owners, retirees, and families who planned all year for one special week together.

That accessibility has always been part of its charm.

At the same time, Shore communities face their own financial pressures. Property owners contend with rising insurance premiums, maintenance costs, labor shortages, and increasing property taxes. Many rental rates reflect those realities rather than simple profit. It’s a balancing act between keeping family traditions alive and covering the real costs of owning property along one of the most desirable stretches of coastline in the country.

Perhaps the better question isn’t whether the Jersey Shore has become “too expensive.”

It’s whether we can preserve the traditions that made it special while ensuring future generations still have the opportunity to experience them.

Because the Shore has never been just about the beach.

It’s about grandparents teaching grandchildren how to catch a wave.

It’s about late-night walks on the boardwalk.

It’s about watching the sunrise with a cup of coffee before everyone else wakes up.

Those memories have always been the true value of a Jersey Shore vacation.

And if those traditions begin slipping out of reach for ordinary families, New Jersey risks losing something far more valuable than a week’s rental income.

It risks losing a piece of its identity.