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At a time when our nation is portrayed as increasingly polarized, media often ignore viewpoints and stories that are worthy of attention. American Thought Leaders, hosted by The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek, features in-depth discussions with some of America’s most influential thought leaders on pertinent issues facing our nation today.

American Thought Leaders Jan Jekielek

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At a time when our nation is portrayed as increasingly polarized, media often ignore viewpoints and stories that are worthy of attention. American Thought Leaders, hosted by The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek, features in-depth discussions with some of America’s most influential thought leaders on pertinent issues facing our nation today.

    Scientists Opened Pandora’s Box, What Now? | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

    Scientists Opened Pandora’s Box, What Now? | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

    “This catastrophic response that we faced during this pandemic will happen again in our lifetimes. The new normal is lockdown until vaccine. That is how we’re going to manage pandemics until there’s an explicit repudiation of the doctrine by public health,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of health policy at Stanford University and one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.
    In this episode, Dr. Bhattacharya shares his theory on what happened these last four years and the link between seemingly disparate events.
    Dr. Bhattacharya is one of the plaintiffs in a landmark free speech case against the Biden administration, Murthy v. Missouri, and the co-host of the Illusion of Consensus podcast.
    “The International Health Regulations and the WHO treaty are a way to essentially institutionalize this paradigm of how to manage pandemics going forward. You can’t have a Sweden next time that bucks the agenda,” he says.
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    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    • 52 min
    The Secret Ratings Agencies That Control Media Advertising: Freddie Sayers

    The Secret Ratings Agencies That Control Media Advertising: Freddie Sayers

    “In this complex machinery, there are these things called ratings agencies ... and they put a number on how trustworthy individual publications are,” says Freddie Sayers. “If they give you a zero or they put you on the naughty list, you don’t get any advertising. Your business model is pretty much turned off overnight.”
    Mr. Sayers is the editor-in-chief of UnHerd, and he recently started looking into the systems of programmatic advertising after he discovered UnHerd had been given a zero rating for trustworthiness and placed on a “dynamic exclusion list” by the Global Disinformation Index.
    In this episode, he breaks down what he’s uncovered about the workings of what he calls “the disinformation industry.”
    “This is taxpayer dollars flowing into completely unaccountable, self-created organizations,” Mr. Sayers says.
    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    • 33 min
    Behind America’s Mental Health Disaster: Carrie Sheffield

    Behind America’s Mental Health Disaster: Carrie Sheffield

    “When someone asks me where are you from, I say I’m from America, because I’m from so many different places, growing up in a motorhome, but also in houses, in sheds,” says Carrie Sheffield. “There were parts of my experience as a child that I really treasure that taught me to love America. But there unfortunately was a lot of abuse as well.”
    Now a columnist, broadcaster, and senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice with a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, Ms. Sheffield grew up with seven siblings and an abusive, mentally ill father who thought he was a modern-day Mormon prophet. Always on the move, Ms. Sheffield rotated between 17 public schools—as well as homeschooling—over the course of her childhood. The glue in the family was her mother.
    She is the author of the new memoir, “Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness.”
    In this episode, drawing from her own life circumstances, she offers some profound insights into the cultural malaise she sees afflicting America—from the rise in suicide and depression to the epidemic of addiction and isolation—and a path forward.
    “We put human intellect in the place of God. And so even though we are materially better off, and even though we have economic wealth, it has come at a price, and that price is the humility and the recognition of the giver of our gifts. We’ve substituted worship for the giver of our gifts, with worship of the gifts. And any society that is ordered in this way is disordered,” Ms. Sheffield says.
    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    • 47 min
    From Rock Star to Dissident: Winston Marshall

    From Rock Star to Dissident: Winston Marshall

    In 2021, Winston Marshall sent a tweet congratulating Andy Ngo for his book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” He soon found himself and his band, Mumford & Sons, at the center of a firestorm.
    Three years later, he’s the host of The Winston Marshall Show and co-founder of the “Dissident Dialogues” festival of ideas, which held its first gathering recently in Brooklyn in New York City.
    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    • 27 min
    Infertility After Vaccination? Dr. Kimberly Biss Explains the Data

    Infertility After Vaccination? Dr. Kimberly Biss Explains the Data

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    I noticed that my miscarriage rate from year to year had gone up by 100 percent.”
    Dr. Kimberly Biss is a board-certified OBGYN who has grown her Florida private practice to a five-provider group that delivers roughly 300 babies a year. Having been involved in more than a thousand pregnancies herself, Dr. Biss observed some disturbing trends in her patients once the COVID-19 genetic vaccines rolled out in 2021.
    “Now that people are getting the documents from the trials, there were bad outcomes in there. The miscarriage rate was 80 percent in the Pfizer trials. They knew that,” she says.
    “This information was first reported by my colleagues Naomi Wolf and her team at Daily Clout, and extensively reviewed by Dr. James Thorpe. Of the 270 women who got pregnant, only 32 were followed up on, and 26 miscarried. 81%.”
    Dr. Biss began tracking and comparing her data in real time, the bulk of which was published in 2022 on Dr. Jessica Rose’s Substack.
    “A lot of medical schools—over 50 to 60 percent of their money probably comes from Big Pharma,” says Dr. Biss.
    We dive into the data Dr. Biss compiled, and discuss how pressure campaigns from federal health agencies and Big Pharma influenced the vaccine roll-out in pregnant and breastfeeding women.
    “In the beginning, they locked us down, we’re all eating Uber Eats, all processed junk, can’t go to the gym, can’t exercise, don’t go outside, don’t get in the sun, which is your vitamin D. So, we were all deficient in D. I mean, everything that doesn’t promote any sort of health they told us to do,” says Dr. Biss.
    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. This text was updated with a clarification from the author.

    • 42 min
    Leaked Files Reveal Trans Medicine Harms to Children: Mia Hughes

    Leaked Files Reveal Trans Medicine Harms to Children: Mia Hughes

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    “They have young teenage patients showing up at the hospital with vaginal atrophy, uterine atrophy, bleeding pain,” says Canadian journalist Mia Hughes, the author of a 70-page report that scrutinizes a series of leaked internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
    “This is brand new territory. We’ve never done this to teenage girls before. They’re just making it up as they go along. They’re layering other drugs on top of the testosterone to try to cope with the very side effects that the testosterone has caused, never at any point questioning: is it a good idea to give these girls testosterone?” Ms. Hughes says.
    In this episode, she breaks down what was revealed in these leaked files.
    “Health care is supposed to improve health, not destroy it,” Ms. Hughes says.
    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    • 59 min

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Wireless805 ,

Love the long form interview

Learn a lot

Mr. Texas Dog ,

REACT19

Your interview with Dr Wallskorg is an outstanding must listen to session.

I’ve been working on one of Naomi Wolfe’s Pfizer clinical trial review teams. Massive reform is needed now. The mRNA platform should be halted ASAP. People need to go to prison. They knew. They know.

“Safe and Effective”, “masking”, “6’”, “science”…never, ever forget the FDA approved this for children AFTER they knew.

This is not a vaccine. It never was. It is not a mRNA shot. It IS a mRNA platform. Pharma is looking to broaden their market reach to use in other products.

Dr. Wallskorg is correct about being on an island, even among loved ones. Know you are not alone. Find at least one other. We’re here.

God bless you Jan. God bless us all.

Apanda76 ,

Masterful but…please hear me out.

I’m very disappointed in this podcast and how it’s covering the horrors happening in Palestine. Makes me question the over all integrity of this organization that I’ve enjoyed up until now

Thoughtful and relevant. I love your vibe. I learn so much! Thank you …concerning the Chloe Cole episode and transgenderism…from a centrist view and as an aunt to a trans man that had similar experiences, but a happier ending I gotta say… His journey has been way different and much more well adjusted. He knew he was trans at 3. I witnessed it. No one made him that way. Maybe vaccines or hormones in the environment or whatever but nothing in his control. Even with absolute support it was a challenging journey for him. To be different and feel wrong in his body. It wasn’t peer pressure or to be cool. And not everyone’s story is as tragic as hers. His is having a happy beginning to a life as an adult male. I believe Chloe is 100% genuine but is also telling a story about others in way that is too broad of a view… …and I ca feel from her a very genuine pain. I can totally believe she’s being rejected by people who now won’t accept her and that’s messed up and must hurt. The people she knows probably are the way she says but if she was dealing with mental health issues growing up and isolation she would be drawn to others who are the same. My nephew has had his own set of challenges but overall well adjusted in his early 20s with an amazing girlfriend. He doesn’t do drugs. Super responsible. In college. Funny kid. Creative. My sister did good with him. My Republican and conservative dad paid for his top surgery. Even my dad could see “she” was a “he”. He was chill and discrete about his process by choice. But he’s also been supported early on. (I personally would have made him hold off until 18 on hormone blockers if he was my kid but I think looking back it was the right choice) He waited til he was 18 to have top surgery. I’ve never seen him more confident and light in his body afterwards. But I also can see how Chloe’s experience happened the way it did. I am very impressed with her courage to speak out because there is not a voice of caution and you can’t speak out even for balance and not get called transphobic these days. But she can. I just want to caution giving conservatives a very skewed perspective. There is the extremists but there are genuine trans people just doing their thing and not regretting it and not spewing mental Illness everywhere. Also LOTS of people do drugs for lots of reasons. Can’t put that on trans people. Anyway I loved this episode and I love Jan’s sensitivity with this. I hope you will keep the same sensitivity towards a person like Chloe but who has had a different and better outcome. Ultimately we all just need to foster self love and self acceptance and maybe chill on the medical side until a persons body and mind has developed while we hold love and acceptance for the process. That would help a lot of trans kids take their time and figure it out without major pressure and risk and then they can transition as an adult. Happiness is an inside job. No matter your body. Period. Start there and the outcomes will just be better. As a society I feel there is a middle ground that has not been established yet. If I didn’t witness my nephews process I would probably feel like a lot of conservatives… but it’s a real thing. The politics of it is skewing a realness that deserves some respect. And drag shows for kids is something all together different and wrong. My nephew would agree. I wish Chloe all the best and I hope she keeps speaking truth to this reality that I imagine others might find themselves in. Stories like hers show that caution is warranted when it comes to children and when medical evolution is moving to fast too soon.

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