The Massachusetts Postpartum Initiative, the Plastics Research Council, and Desist, Detrans & Detox

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has ignited a national debate by expanding a taxpayer-funded program that sends registered nurses into the homes of families shortly after the birth of a child. Healey says the voluntary visits will allow healthcare providers to assess mothers and newborns, screen for postpartum mental-health concerns, and connect families with additional services. Massachusetts is committing $2.25 million to the broader postpartum initiative. But what begins as a voluntary program in one state could quickly become a national public-health model. Katie Asher, a writer, researcher, and mother whose memoir, "The Book of Heaven: A Story of Hope for the Outcasts, the Broken, and Those Who Lost Faith," co-authored with her autistic son, Houston, is scheduled to join me to discuss whether Massachusetts is creating a model that other states will soon adopt, where compassionate postpartum care ends and government supervision begins, whether parents who decline a home visit could be viewed as suspicious or uncooperative, and more important questions everyone should be asking before this becomes a national model.

There is a path to a brighter future, but it is not an easy one, and that is for three reasons. Firstly, it is difficult to change people's minds, and they are already brainwashed against plastics because lies repeated often enough are believed. Secondly, the anti-plastics campaign is very well funded. Michael Bloomberg for example proudly stated that he gave $85M to create groups including Beyond Plastics who have a mandate not to protect the environment but to make attacks on plastic materials use. Lastly, making up misinformation is easy, but finding the facts is not. It takes thousands of hours to read thousands of studies in order to get to the truth. That's exactly what Dr. Chris DeArmitt, a materials scientist, founder of the Plastics Research Council, and author whose entire focus is replacing environmental fear-mongering with peer-reviewed evidence, did so that he could share the truth with the world.

The Federal Trade Commission and four state attorneys general are in federal court right now suing the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the private group whose guidelines American hospitals, insurers and school districts point to. The complaint is not about the surgery. It is the sales pitch. The complaint says WPATH presented full transiting procedures as the only alternative to a child's death, and cites clinic