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Search results for "GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-like behavior in a recent study on mice"

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X posts stated on November 06, 2025 in an X post:
“RFK Jr. flees the scene after Novo Nordisk Executive Gordon Findlay collapsed in the Oval Office.”
By Maria Briceño• November 7, 2025
Gen. Peter Chiarelli stated on August 08, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
About 106,000 soldiers had "a prescription of three weeks or more" for pain, depression or anxiety medication.
By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 10, 2010
Mitch McConnell stated on February 17, 2010 in a press release:
The stimulus includes "$219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshmen."
By Robert Farley• February 19, 2010
Elon Musk stated on February 16, 2024 in a post:
There is “clear scientific consensus” that “hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression and triples risk of suicide.”
By Samantha Putterman• February 23, 2024
Instagram posts stated on October 17, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“Boston University CREATES a new COVID strain that has an 80% kill rate.”
By Jeff Cercone• October 20, 2022
Donna Campbell stated on May 22, 2019 in the Texas Senate:
"A study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70 percent had THC."
By Taylor Goldenstein• July 15, 2019
Matt Gaetz stated on March 31, 2022 in a Twitter thread:
“The price of insulin increases as waistlines increase.”
By Colleen DeGuzman, Victoria Knight• April 21, 2022
Instagram posts stated on January 21, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Chinese scientists “created (a) new COVID-19 strain (with) 100% fatality.”
By Sara Swann• January 26, 2024
Facebook posts stated on December 31, 2017 in a video interview:
"ADHD does not exist."
By Ellie Borst• July 13, 2022
Facebook posts stated on June 07, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Country singer Miranda Lambert is giving away “free belly melt kits.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 16, 2023
Woody Thrasher stated on August 21, 2019 in a tweet:
"West Virginia is sixth overall in the average number of at-risk youth."
By Alayna Degenhardt, Farrah Frattaroli• December 6, 2019
Nancy Grace stated on January 14, 2014 in a segment on 'Nancy Grace':
People on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families."  
By Katie Sanders• January 24, 2014
Instagram posts stated on May 02, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“mRNA in food is being tested by USDA now.”
By Samantha Putterman• May 8, 2023
Michael McCaul stated on April 06, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"When people enter the service, there’s not a mental health evaluation."
By Steve Contorno• April 6, 2014
Marijuana Policy Project stated on August 15, 2013 in a TV ad:
Marijuana is "less toxic" than alcohol.
By Rochelle Koff• August 19, 2013
Viral image stated on October 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:
Video shows singer Kelly Clarkson discussing a “weight loss formula.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 31, 2023
Mary Miller stated on April 08, 2022 in a tweet:
The Biden Administration is engaging in extreme ‘woke’ politics by encouraging children to take chemical castration drugs and undergo surgeries, and they are lying to children by telling them puberty blockers are "reversible."
By Analisa Trofimuk• April 17, 2022
Instagram posts stated on October 06, 2023 in an Instagram post:
"Bill Gates mRNA 'air vaccine' approved for use against non-consenting humans"
By Sara Swann• October 6, 2023
Nikki Haley stated on October 12, 2023 in a town hall in Exeter, N.H.:
China is “the largest developer of neuro-strike weapons, weapons engineered to change the brain activity of military commanders and segments of the population.”
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• November 1, 2023
Facebook posts stated on April 09, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Dr. Mehmet Oz promoted a weight loss supplement that can be added to coffee.
By Sofia Ahmed• April 25, 2024

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Puberty blockers: The facts and the myths

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By Loreben Tuquero• May 30, 2025

Comparing the Great Recession and the Great Depression

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Huckabee and the pudgy military

By Josh Korr• September 19, 2007

NIH helped fund research involving donated fetal tissue, but Fauci was not directly involved

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Antidepressants are widely used in the U.S., and data hasn’t proved they cause mass violence

By Madison Czopek• November 19, 2025

Tale of the House Mouse

By Angie Drobnic Holan• February 13, 2009

The stimulus is funding what?

By Robert Farley• February 19, 2010

Is this March Madness betting cause for concern? How to tell and what to do

By Madison Czopek• March 23, 2026

What’s behind the dubious claim that psychiatric drugs fuel mass shootings?

By John Kruzel• August 16, 2019

Heat-related deaths are up, and not just because it’s getting hotter

By Phillip Reese• September 11, 2023

Ask PolitiFact: Fact-checking Harris, Trump’s AARP interviews

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