Inside the marketplace for vaccine medical exemptions

Frontline Health Advocates provides medical exemption notes—for a fee. What exactly are they selling?

Maybe a client hears about them in the comment section of the Facebook group “Medical Exemption Accepted,” or on the r/unvaccinated forum on Reddit. Maybe it’s through an interview posted on the video-sharing platform Rumble. Or maybe it’s the targeted advertisements on Google: “We do medical exemptions.”

Cassandra Clerkin, a mother in upstate New York, first got in touch with Frontline Health Advocates near the start of the 2024–2025 school year, after hearing they had doctors who would write exemptions from school immunization requirements. One of Clerkin’s children, she said, had suffered seizures after receiving a vaccine. The family didn’t want more shots. But New York has some of the country’s strictest school immunization policies.

Perhaps Frontline could help.

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(g+) ChatGPT und Co.: KI für alle, aber wer zahlt?

KI-Werkzeuge sind im Alltag angekommen. Doch nur ein Bruchteil der Nutzer zahlt. Wo die Branche nach neuen Einnahmen suchen sollte. Eine Analyse von Oliver Jessner (KI, Wirtschaft)

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Oh Schreck: Halloween-Horror zum Spielen

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YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials

YouTubers suspect AI is bizarrely removing popular video explainers.

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals were due to automation.

Creators grew alarmed when educational videos that YouTube had allowed for years were suddenly being bizarrely flagged as “dangerous” or “harmful,” with seemingly no way to trigger human review to overturn removals. AI seemed to be running the show, with creators’ appeals seemingly getting denied faster than a human could possibly review them.

Late Friday, a YouTube spokesperson confirmed that videos flagged by Ars have been reinstated, promising that YouTube will take steps to ensure that similar content isn’t removed in the future. But, to creators, it remains unclear why the videos got taken down, as YouTube claimed that both initial enforcement decisions and decisions on appeals were not the result of an automation issue.

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Neural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethane

Given a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals.

You’ll often hear plastic pollution referred to as a problem. But the reality is that it’s multiple problems. Depending on the properties we need, we form plastics out of different polymers, each of which is held together by a distinct type of chemical bond. So the method we use to break down one type of polymer may be incompatible with the chemistry of another.

That problem is why, even though we’ve had success finding enzymes that break down common plastics like polyesters and PET, they’re only partial solutions to plastic waste. However, researchers aren’t sitting back and basking in the triumph of partial solutions, and they’ve now got very sophisticated protein design tools to help them out.

That’s the story behind a completely new enzyme that researchers developed to break down polyurethane, the polymer commonly used to make foam cushioning, among other things. The new enzyme is compatible with an industrial-style recycling process that breaks the polymer down into its basic building blocks, which can be used to form fresh polyurethane.

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Oberes 6-Gigahertz-Band: Wildberger vor “fataler technischer Fehleinschätzung”

Die Entscheidung von Bundesdigitalminister Wildberger, das obere 6-Gigahertz-Band an den Mobilfunk zu geben, stößt auf Protest. HPE und der Breko hatten versucht, dass zu verhindern. (Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung un, WLAN)

Die Entscheidung von Bundesdigitalminister Wildberger, das obere 6-Gigahertz-Band an den Mobilfunk zu geben, stößt auf Protest. HPE und der Breko hatten versucht, dass zu verhindern. (Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung un, WLAN)