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She Says Vaccines Killed Her Twins. The Authorities Say She Did.
Andrea Shaw has spent most of the summer alone in a cell in Payette, Idaho, taking comfort from photos of her family, according to her lawyer. Her twins were 18 months old when they died, in May 2025, and her living daughter is three months old. She can talk to her husband, Nate, and the baby only by phone or video chat, which she does several times a day. As she waits for her lawyer to drive up from Boise, she reads inspirational books such as “Tuesdays with Morrie.”
Shaw, 23, is charged with the smothering murder of the twins — Tyson, a boy, and Dallas, a girl — in the middle of the night, in the bed that they shared. At trial, scheduled for January, evidence will show that “the only conceivable explanation” for their deaths is that she suffocated them, the Payette County prosecutor Mike Duke wrote in a court filing. Shaw has pleaded not guilty.
Joe Filicetti, Shaw’s lawyer, describes Shaw as “sweet.” In court, in her red-and-white striped uniform, she mostly comes across as young. The Shaw case, grim as it is, might have been a purely local story except for the extraordinary attention it has received from the captains of the nation’s vaccine-skeptical movement. Three days after their twins died, Andrea and Nate Shaw appeared on a video podcast produced by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Depression During Pregnancy Linked to Higher Adhd and Autism Risk in Children
Babies born to mums who had depression during pregnancy are at greater risk of ADHD and autism, according to new research. The higher risk of their children requiring special educational needs can’t be attributed entirely to exposure in the womb to antidepressants, say scientists.
Study leader Dr Saraid McIlvride, of the University of Glasgow, said: “Antidepressant use during pregnancy is increasing, but currently, the long-term effects of these drugs on child development are unclear. Having untreated depression during pregnancy carries its own risks, however, making it very challenging for someone with depression to make informed decisions about whether to take medication during pregnancy.”
For the new study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, researchers followed more than 167,000 children born in Wales between 2009 and 2016, until 2022. Utilising medical and school records, the team looked for any links between depression diagnoses or antidepressant use in mothers, and special educational needs in their children, such as diagnoses of autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or learning, behavioural, emotional or social difficulties.
The findings showed that children of women who received antidepressant treatment had higher rates of certain neurodevelopmental disorders than women with depression who were untreated.
Early-Onset Type 2 Diabetes More Likely In People With ADHD, Autism
A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes at a young age is much more likely in people who have autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research says. More than 14% of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before the age of 20 had an ADHD diagnosis, compared to close to 7% of people of similar age without diabetes. That’s more than double the number, findings being presented at a conference in Italy this week show.
As for autism, 5.7% of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before the age of 20 also had the neurodivergent condition, the study found.
Type 2 diabetes is a common blood sugar illness. Often tied to obesity, it occurs when the body loses the ability to use insulin properly or make enough of it, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The association between neurodivergence and type 2 diabetes could have many factors, such as sleep disturbances, medication use, mental health conditions, barriers to accessing healthcare and lower levels of physical activity, researchers said.
Brain Blood Vessels Emerge as Potential Treatment Target for Autism-Related Symptoms
Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa reversed certain behavioral symptoms in a mouse model of autism by fixing a problem in the brain’s blood vessels. Their findings, published in Neuron, suggest a promising new treatment target for these symptoms.
Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition with widely varying characteristics. Some behavioral symptoms can make life more challenging. While many people with autism have found ways to manage these symptoms, no drug treatment exists.
“The road from discovery to clinical trials is long, but we’re excited by the possibility that our findings might one day improve the daily lives of people with autism,” said senior author Dr. Baptiste Lacoste, a senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and a professor at the University of Ottawa.
Lacoste’s team previously discovered that blood vessels in the brain don’t work properly in mouse models with a 16p11.2 deletion, one of the most common genetic mutations seen in autism. They were the first to look at what was happening in the brain’s blood vessels.
Gates-Funded Social Engineering Campaign Targets Teens With Anti-Meat Propaganda
A Bill Gates-funded organization is pushing a sweeping social engineering campaign that targets American boys as young as 16 with anti-meat propaganda by preying on their insecurities about masculinity. The campaign uses fitness influencers, identity-based psychological messaging, and trusted “in-group messengers” to manipulate young men into embracing plant-based diets. Its architects are not hiding their far-reaching goal.
They predict that changing the behavior of today’s teenage boys will alter “their diets, their children’s diets, and the generations to follow.” The operation is being advanced through the School for Moral Ambition, an organization co-founded by Dutch author Rutger Bregman.
The school has paired fellow Alexandra Perry with People for Better Food, a nonprofit dedicated to changing how Americans eat. Perry’s fundraising pitch singles out males aged 16 to 24 and targets the cultural influence of fitness personalities and podcasters who present meat as the “ultimate badge of masculinity.”
