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- Salt Lake County Declines Charges Against Tim Ballard (2025)
News Report · 2025
ABC4
ABC4, November 2025: the Salt Lake County district attorney declined to charge Tim Ballard for lack of admissible evidence, saying that does not mean the accusers…
- Salt Lake Tribune: OUR Wanted Tim Ballard Gone in 72 Hours (2023)
News Report · 2023
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune, November 2023: court documents show Operation Underground Railroad's board asked Ballard to resign within 72 hours; he gave other reasons for leaving.
- Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745
Court Filing · 1982
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that a state must prove its case by at least clear and convincing evidence before permanently terminating parental rights.
- Saving Shirley Temple: An Attempt to Secure Financial Futures for Child Performers
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2000
Peter M. Christiano
Law review history of the Coogan Law, passed in 1939 after child star Jackie Coogan's parents spent nearly all of his earnings. The original law let…
- Schwermut ohne Scham (2012)
News Report · 2012
Jörg Blech; Der Spiegel
The publisher-indexed wording attributes to Leon Eisenberg the statement that ADHD is a prime example of a fabricated disorder.
- Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information — Simpsonwood Retreat Center meeting transcript (2000)
Government Record · 2000
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (meeting of federal officials, vaccine manufacturers, and outside scientists)
Transcript of the closed two-day June 7-8, 2000 meeting at the Simpsonwood Retreat Center, Norcross, GA, convened to review Thomas Verstraeten's first-phase VSD analysis of thimerosal…
- SDNY: Remarks on the Indictment and Arrest of Jeffrey Epstein (2019)
Government Record · 2019
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, July 2019: announced sex trafficking charges against Epstein for abusing dozens of girls, some as young as 14. Epstein died before trial.
- Sean Parker unloads on Facebook: “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains”
News Report · 2017
Mike Allen / Axios
Parker retrospectively described maximizing attention and said creators understood the psychological mechanism consciously. He also said, “God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains.”
- Senate Bill 818, Truly Agreed To and Finally Passed
Government Record · 2008
Missouri General Assembly
The enrolled measure repeals and reenacts provisions including sections 160.261, 565.090, and 565.225 and expands harassment coverage.
- Senator Markey’s Probe into Amazon Ring Reveals New Privacy Problems
Government Record · 2022
Office of Senator Edward J. Markey
The Senate release reports 11 emergency-request disclosures without device-owner consent in 2022 and 2,161 law-enforcement agencies on Ring’s Neighbors Public Safety Service.
- Senator Wiener’s Historic Bill to Provide Refuge for Trans Kids and Their Families Signed into Law (2022)
Government Record · 2022
Office of California Senator Scott Wiener
The sponsor’s official statement describes SB 107’s limits on enforcing out-of-state removal laws, subpoenas, arrests, and extradition connected to lawful California gender-affirming care. The refuge law…
- Sesame and the Muppets—The Great Reset Podcast
Document · 2020
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum's 2020 "Great Reset" podcast episode featuring Sesame Workshop executive Sherrie Westin on education and the pandemic.
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Naturally Acquired Immunity versus Vaccine-induced Immunity, Reinfections versus Breakthrough Infections: A Retrospective Observational Study (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Gazit S, Shlezinger R, Perez G, et al.
Israeli Maccabi retrospective cohort during the Delta period: previously infected, unvaccinated people had substantially lower reinfection risk than twice-vaccinated, never-infected people; symptomatic disease and hospitalization were…
- Sex reassignment at birth. Long-term review and clinical implications (1997)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 1997
Milton Diamond and H. Keith Sigmundson
The 1997 article reports that the individual later rejected the assigned sex of rearing and lived as a male from puberty onward. It is a long-term…
- Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC to Pay $56.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Drug Marketing and Promotion Practices (2014)
Government Record · 2014
U.S. Department of Justice
Shire paid $56.5 million to resolve civil allegations concerning unsupported Adderall XR superiority and outcome claims and misleading Vyvanse abuse-liability statements. The resolved claims were allegations…
- Short Sleep Duration Among Middle School and High School Students — United States, 2015
Government Record · 2018
Anne G. Wheaton et al.
Short sleep affected 57.8% of middle-school and 72.7% of high-school students in the analyzed state data. Nine states contributed to the combined middle-school analysis and 30…
- Short-term outcomes of pubertal suppression in a selected cohort of 12 to 15 year old young people with persistent gender dysphoria in the UK (2021)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2021
Carmichael P, Butler G, Masic U, et al.
The UK Early Intervention Study (GIDS/UCLH, n=44): no significant psychological-function change on blockers; bone-density z-scores fell; 98% proceeded to cross-sex hormones. CONTRADICTS the book's claim that…
- Social Media and Adolescent Health: Highlights
Document · 2023
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The committee nevertheless proposed interim protections and further research. Lack of population-level causal evidence is not evidence that every individual is safe.
- Social Media and Children 2024 Legislation
Document · 2024
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Conference of State Legislatures survey of 2024 state bills on children and social media, including California's enacted child influencer laws. No bill called the "Child…
- Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Government Record · 2023
Office of the U.S. Surgeon General
The U.S. Surgeon General's 2023 advisory page on social media and youth mental health: it says we cannot yet conclude social media is safe enough for…
- Sperm characteristics and testicular development in transgender girls and young women on puberty suppression (de Nie et al.) (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
de Nie I, et al.
Study of 214 natal males treated with GnRH agonists (with/without estrogen): full spermatogenesis in only 4.7%, all of whom started blockers at Tanner stage 4+; those…
- Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8 (SOC8) (2022)
Document · 2022
Coleman E, Radix AE, Bouman WP, et al. (WPATH)
WPATH SOC8 (Sept 2022) added a dedicated adolescent chapter. Draft versions circulated with minimum ages (14 for hormones, 15 mastectomy, 16 breast/17 genital); the published version…
- Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645
Court Filing · 1972
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that a father was entitled to a hearing on his fitness as a parent before the state could take his children.
- Statement About Transgender Health Care at VUMC (2022)
Document · 2022
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
VUMC responded that social-media posts and a video misrepresented its care. It stated that parental consent was required and employees could decline morally objectionable care.