{"id":167189,"date":"2020-08-31T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=167189"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:28:52","slug":"heated-vaccine-debate-kennedy-jr-vs-dershowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/heated-vaccine-debate-kennedy-jr-vs-dershowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Heated Vaccine Debate: Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>23 Jul 2020 &#8211; <em>Don\u2019t miss this historic debate between Children\u2019s Health Defense Chairman<strong> Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/strong> and Harvard Law <strong>Professor Alan Dershowitz<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the current COVID crisis dominating headlines at national and local levels, the topic of vaccines is now front and center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The two attorneys<\/strong> <strong>debate<\/strong> a range of issues including vaccine mandates, the PREP Act, the lack of vaccine safety studies, Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, and HHS\u2019s failure to act on provisions of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Are compulsory vaccines even legal? Should any government be able to force medical procedures on families? An insightful discussion that no one contemplating vaccine safety should miss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IfnJi7yLKgE&amp;feature=emb_logo<br \/>\n<strong>PARTICIPANTS:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>(Against)<\/strong> <strong>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/strong> serves as President of Waterkeeper Alliance, as well as Founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Legal Counsel for Children\u2019s Health Defense, and of counsel to Morgan &amp; Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice. Mr. Kennedy is an esteemed author, with a long list of published books including the New York Times\u2019 bestseller, \u201cCrimes Against Nature.\u201d Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine\u2019s \u201cHeroes for the Planet\u201d for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. His reputation as a resolute defender of the environment and children\u2019s health stems from a litany of successful legal actions. He received recognition for his role in the landmark victory against Monsanto last year, as well as in the DuPont Case that inspired the movie &#8220;Dark Waters&#8221; (2019). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>(For)<\/strong> <strong>Alan M. Dershowitz<\/strong> is a Brooklyn native who has been called \u201cthe nation\u2019s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer\u201d and one of its \u201cmost distinguished defenders of individual rights,\u201d \u201cthe best-known criminal lawyer in the world,\u201d \u201cthe top lawyer of last resort,\u201d \u201cAmerica\u2019s most public Jewish defender\u201d and \u201cIsrael\u2019s single most visible defender \u2013 the Jewish state\u2019s lead attorney in the court of public opinion.\u201d He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Dershowitz, a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale Law School, joined the Harvard Law School faculty at age 25 after clerking for Judge David Bazelon and Justice Arthur Goldberg. Order his Latest Book: Guilt by Accusation <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbW9hYlJQY0E5Q085Ym1HNVg0ZXI4NnN3am9OQXxBQ3Jtc0tuZmdpUWZ4Nk1CeUVjdk4yOTBweW14YjVBUk4wdnRwSmlqdksyV2VTbUs2WUR2MS1uZnd5SkIxUXVLR1pGbFFkQm9ReDVYejFrUVFGTERMLWxqODg1V1VFNEFnS1R1dkJMdUJaYklGMWxTcExBenFYOA%3D%3D&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2ZNAUKX&amp;event=video_description&amp;v=IfnJi7yLKgE\" class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2ZNAUKX<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>(Moderator)<\/strong> <strong>Patrick Bet-David<\/strong> &#8211; During the Iranian Revolution of 1978, Patrick&#8217;s family had to escape to survive and ended up living at a refugee camp in Erlangen, Germany. At 12 years old Patrick found himself collecting cans &amp; beer bottles to raise money that could help his family and get him a Nintendo. These childhood experiences had a major impact on his perspective of freedom, hard work and entrepreneurship. Today, he is CEO of PHP Agency, Inc. a financial services company with over 15,000 agents in 49 states and Puerto Rico and an active YouTube creator commonly known for his investigative journalistic approach to interviews and unorthodox business teachings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic debate about COVID vaccination between two attorneys: Children\u2019s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. 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