The Docket: The People v. The Architecture of Extraction, Part 2

Evidentiary Docket: A Record of Findings Demonstrating That the Government of the United States Does Not Act in the Civilizational Interest of Its Citizens

Docket VII: The Control Group

In which the record establishes that the biological collapse documented in Docket IV is not an inevitable consequence of modernity but a specific product of the American architecture, as demonstrated by peer nations that maintained the material floor and did not experience comparable collapse.

Findings of Fact

40. When researchers applied Twenge’s anxiety meta-analysis methodology to European populations between 1964 and 2015 (131 studies, N = 63,269), they found no similar increase in anxiety or depression in Germany and the United Kingdom. Same species. Same neurology. Different architecture. Different result.

41. While the U.S. suicide rate climbed about 37% from 2000 to 2018, a global review found rising suicide trends in only 8 of 195 countries. The United States was one. No other wealthy nation was on the list.

42. The nations that maintained universal healthcare, guaranteed housing, subsidized childcare, and strong labor protections did not see their populations collapse into mass despair and violence.

43. Japan represents the terminal stage of the extraction trajectory: population projected to shrink from 128 million to 87 million by 2070, with nearly 40% over age 65. Schools abandoned. Towns evaporating. The system prioritized the ledger and now the ledger is collapsing because there is no one left to produce.

Source: Becker, P. & Stelter, R. (2018). “Age of Anxiety and Depression Revisited.” Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, 60–68. Martínez-Alés, G. et al. (2021). “Recent Rise of Suicide Mortality in the US.” Annual Review of Public Health. National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (Japan), 2023 revision.

Evidentiary Conclusion

The control group exists. It has been running for decades. The results are unambiguous. The architecture, not the species, not modernity, not technology, is the variable. The American government built the architecture. The American government maintained the architecture. The American government’s own peer nations prove that different choices produce different biological outcomes. The government chose this.

Docket VIII: The Ownership Web

In which the record establishes that three investment firms are the largest single shareholder in roughly 88% of S&P 500 companies, that a handful of conglomerates own most of American media, that these entities own stakes in each other, fund the lobby groups that write the legislation, and finance the PACs that elect the legislators: constituting a closed loop of self-serving governance with no democratic accountability.

Findings of Fact: The Big Three

44. Three asset management firms, BlackRock ($10.5 trillion AUM), Vanguard ($9.3 trillion AUM), and State Street ($4.3 trillion AUM), as of 2024, together held about 22% of the S&P 500 in 2023, up from 13.5% in 2008, and cast roughly a quarter of the votes at its companies’ shareholder meetings.

45. Together, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street are the largest single shareholder in roughly 88% of S&P 500 companies, including Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, General Electric, and Coca-Cola. In 2017, researchers found they were the largest shareholder in 40% of all publicly listed firms in the United States. They do not own those companies outright. They do not need to.

46. These three firms collectively own significant stakes in each other. Vanguard is among BlackRock’s largest institutional shareholders. BlackRock holds major positions in State Street. The ownership is circular. As Vivek Ramaswamy stated in 2023: “BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard represent arguably the most powerful cartel in human history: they’re the largest shareholders of nearly every major public company, even of each other.”

47. These same firms are the largest shareholders in the few competitors that remain across concentrated American industries: airlines (American, Delta, United), banks (JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup), tech, pharma, and food. When the same three entities are the largest owners of the top competitors in sector after sector, the incentive to compete weakens. Economists call it common ownership; one study of U.S. airlines found ticket prices ran higher where it was strongest (Azar, Schmalz & Tecu, 2018). Prices do not need to be fixed by conspiracy. They can be softened by common ownership.

Findings of Fact: Media Consolidation

48. In 1983, the media critic Ben Bagdikian counted fifty corporations controlling most of what Americans read, watched, and heard. Following the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which lifted the national 40-station radio ownership cap and loosened cross-ownership rules, that number collapsed. By 2004, Bagdikian counted five. Today a handful of conglomerates: Comcast (NBCUniversal), The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance, and Fox Corporation: own most of the national networks, studios, and cable channels, and they keep merging into fewer.

49. In local broadcasting, 40% of all local TV news stations are now under the control of three conglomerates: Gray Television, Nexstar Media Group, and Sinclair Broadcast Group. Their stations operate in more than 80% of U.S. media markets. Research shows that when Sinclair acquired stations, coverage of local politics declined by approximately 10%. Sinclair has required hundreds of local stations to run political editorials and forced local anchors to read scripts mirroring specific political messaging.

50. The same Big Three investment firms, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, are among the largest institutional shareholders of the media conglomerates that dominate American information. The largest owners of the corporations are also among the largest owners of the companies that tell the population what to think about those corporations. The information supply and the economic supply sit under the same ownership structure.

Exhibit I: The Closed Loop

Source: Fichtner, Heemskerk & Garcia-Bernardo (2017), “Hidden Power of the Big Three.” Harvard Business Review, 2019. Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly (2004). OpenSecrets federal lobbying data, 2024.

Evidentiary Conclusion

The same three investment firms that are the largest single shareholder in roughly 88% of S&P 500 companies are also among the largest owners of the media companies that shape the information the population receives. The companies they hold fund the lobby groups that write the legislation and finance the political campaigns that elect the legislators who approve the regulations. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a publicly documented ownership structure. The loop is closed. The population has no structural access point to interrupt it. The government is not captured by corporate interests. The government is a subsidiary of corporate interests.

Docket IX: The Poisoned Table

In which the record establishes that the government permits additives that cause cancer in animals, and other toxic additives, in the American food supply that are banned in the European Union and elsewhere, that four corporations control the majority of the food chain, that the regulatory agency responsible for food safety allows corporations to self-certify the safety of their own chemicals, and that the food industry spends hundreds of millions annually lobbying the same government that is supposed to regulate it.

Findings of Fact: Food Monopoly

51. The top four corporations control more than 80% of the U.S. market for beef processing, baby food, pasta, and soda. They control more than 60% of the market for pork, coffee, cookies, beer, and bread. Four corporations, Cargill, Archer-Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Louis Dreyfus, control close to 90% of global grain trading. Four firms control approximately 85% of the national beef packing market and 85% of soybean processing.

52. Four companies, Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and Ahold Delhaize, control 65% of the grocery retail market. Until the 1990s, most Americans shopped at local or regional grocery stores. The United States now has roughly one-third fewer grocery stores than it did 25 years ago.

53. Just 15 cents of every dollar consumers spend in supermarkets goes to the farmers who grew the food. The farmer’s share of the retail food dollar has plummeted by fifty percent. Since 2016, private plaintiffs have accused leading corporations in every major meat industry of colluding to coordinate supply cuts and raise prices. Federal antitrust enforcers have successfully prosecuted canned tuna executives for price-fixing. Pilgrim’s Pride pleaded guilty to price-fixing charges.

Findings of Fact: The GRAS Loophole

54. Under the GRAS (“Generally Recognized as Safe”) loophole, created in 1958, food manufacturers in the United States are permitted to self-certify the safety of chemicals they add to food: bypassing the FDA entirely. The company that profits from the additive hires its own panel to declare the additive safe. The company can either notify the FDA or skip notification altogether and begin adding the chemical to the food supply. The European Union has no equivalent loophole.

55. The FDA has long had no systematic process for re-evaluating previously approved additives. A substance approved generations ago can stay in the food supply until someone forces the question. Yellow No. 5 was permanently listed for food in 1969; the FDA’s last major action on it came in 1979, when it required the dye to be named on labels because some people react to it. Red No. 3 was determined by the FDA itself to cause cancer in animals in 1990, and remained authorized for use in food until the FDA revoked it in January 2025. Thirty-five years between the FDA’s own determination and action.

Findings of Fact: The Poisoned Supply

56. The following substances are banned or restricted in the European Union and other developed nations but remain legal, or stayed legal for decades, in the United States food supply:

57. U.S. farmers use 72 pesticides that are banned in the EU. The EU operates on the precautionary principle: if a substance shows potential risk, it is restricted until proven safe. U.S. regulators operate on the permissive principle: a substance is allowed until proven dangerous, and the corporations selling the substance fund the research and lobby against the bans.

58. The food and beverage industry recorded more than $155 billion in profits between 2021 and 2022. The food industry spent $175 million on lobbying in the 2020 election cycle alone: a sixfold increase from $29 million in 1992. Three of the largest lobbying firms in the United States work for the food industry.

Evidentiary Conclusion

The government allows corporations to self-certify the safety of chemicals in the food supply. The government has permitted additives that cause cancer in animals, and toxic additives that the European Union and other nations have banned. The government has long had no systematic mechanism to re-evaluate substances it approved decades ago. The regulatory agency responsible for food safety is partly funded by user fees from the industries it regulates, staffed by former industry executives, and lobbied by the same corporations whose chemicals it is supposed to assess. This is not regulatory failure. This is regulatory capture. The fox is not guarding the henhouse. The fox built the henhouse, staffed it, and wrote the regulations that say foxes are generally recognized as safe.

Docket X: The Legalized Purchase of Governance

In which the record establishes that federal lobbying spending reached a record $4.4 billion in 2024, that the pharmaceutical industry alone has spent over $6.1 billion on federal lobbying since 1999, that the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision legalized unlimited independent corporate spending in elections, and that the revolving door between government and industry ensures that the regulators and the regulated are the same people.

Findings of Fact

59. In 2024, federal lobbying spending reached a record-breaking $4.4 billion. That is about $12 million spent every single day to influence legislation. Total lobbying spending has more than doubled since the early 2000s, when it was approximately $1.5–2 billion annually.

60. The pharmaceutical industry has been the single largest lobbying spender since 1999, having spent over $6.1 billion on federal lobbying in that period. The health sector overall spent $743.9 million in 2024 alone. The industry whose products are supposed to heal the population spends three-quarters of a billion dollars per year ensuring the government does not regulate how much it charges for the healing.

61. The most heavily lobbied legislation in 2024 was the Defense Department authorization bill. The top lobbyists on that bill were General Dynamics, RTX Corp, Lockheed Martin, and Amazon: the same companies that draw from an $842 billion defense budget roughly ten times the size of the education budget.

62. In 2010, the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruled that the government may not limit independent political spending by corporations and unions. That ruling, and the SpeechNow.org decision that followed two months later, opened the door to unlimited independent spending through Super PACs and dark money groups. Corporations are now constitutionally entitled to spend without limit on independent campaigns to elect the legislators who write the laws that govern those corporations.

63. The ‘revolving door’ between government agencies and the industries they regulate ensures that regulatory capture is structurally permanent. Former FDA officials join pharmaceutical companies. Former FCC commissioners join telecom firms. Former SEC officials join Wall Street banks. Former defense officials join defense contractors. The regulator and the regulated are the same people, taking turns wearing different costumes.

64. A 2009 academic study found that corporations that lobbied for a specific tax holiday received a return of $220 for every $1 spent on lobbying. In that case, lobbying was not a civic exercise. It was an investment returning 22,000 percent. The purchase of legislation is more profitable than the sale of any product.

Exhibit J: The Purchase Price of Governance

Source: OpenSecrets federal lobbying data, 2024. Bloomberg Government Top-Performing Lobbying Firms Report, 2024. Issue One analysis, 2025. Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010).

Evidentiary Conclusion

The government of the United States is not a democratic institution that is occasionally influenced by corporate interests. It is a corporate instrument that is occasionally required to hold elections. The corporations own the legislators through PAC funding. They own the legislation through $4.4 billion in annual lobbying. They own the regulators through the revolving door. They own the courts through Citizens United. And they own the information the population uses to evaluate all of the above through media consolidation. The loop has no exterior. There is no access point for the citizen that has not already been purchased.

Docket XI: Against the People

In which the record establishes specific government actions that constitute violations of the constitutional obligations owed to the citizens of the United States, including the weaponization of federal agencies against legal residents, the use of military infrastructure against civilian populations, and the systematic dismantlement of agencies created to protect public welfare.

Findings of Fact

65. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process to “any person”, not only citizens, and the Fourteenth extends due process and equal protection of the laws to “any person” within a state’s jurisdiction. The use of federal enforcement agencies to detain, deport, and separate families without due process violates the constitutional protections the government is sworn to uphold. It is not treason in the Constitution’s narrow legal sense. It is a government turning its sworn power against the people in its own house.

66. Federal immigration enforcement agencies have been documented detaining U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, and asylum seekers in conditions that violate the due-process protections owed to people held in civil detention. Children have been separated from parents and held in facilities described by the government’s own inspectors as overcrowded, unsanitary, and dangerous. The Flores Settlement Agreement, which established minimum standards for the detention of minors, has been repeatedly violated.

67. The government has deployed military and paramilitary resources against its own civilian population. Federal agents in unmarked vehicles detained protesters in Portland, Oregon in 2020. The National Guard has been deployed against civilian protests. Tear gas, banned as a method of warfare by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, yet permitted for domestic law enforcement, has been used repeatedly against American civilians. On June 1, 2020, federal officers used chemical irritants to clear protesters from Lafayette Square shortly before the president walked across it to be photographed holding a Bible outside St. John’s Church. A 2021 Interior Department inspector general report concluded the Park Police cleared the square to install fencing, not for the photograph; that finding remains disputed.

68. The administration has proposed or enacted the dissolution, defunding, or restructuring of agencies specifically designed to protect the public welfare: SAMHSA (mental health and suicide prevention), the EPA (environmental protection), the Department of Education, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and USAID. The systematic dismantlement of agencies that serve the population, while the defense budget increases, is not governance. It is the reallocation of civilizational resources from protection of the people to protection of the machine.

69. The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8) prohibits government officials from receiving gifts, emoluments, or financial benefits from foreign states without the consent of Congress. Alleged violations, documented in lawsuits and congressional reports, have never been adjudicated; the courts dismissed the leading suits as moot in 2021. When the government does not enforce its own Constitution against its own officials, the Constitution ceases to function as a restraint on power and becomes instead a decorative document: referenced when convenient, ignored when inconvenient, and structurally unenforceable against the class it was designed to constrain.

Evidentiary Conclusion

When the government uses federal agencies to violate the constitutional rights of persons within its jurisdiction; when it turns a chemical agent banned in warfare against its own civilian population; when it systematically dismantles the agencies created to protect public health, education, and welfare while increasing the budget for destruction; when it fails to enforce its own Constitution against its own officials: the government is no longer operating in the civilizational interest of its citizens. It is operating against them. The architecture is not negligent. It is hostile.

Docket XII: The Verdict

In which the full evidentiary record is read as a single sentence.

The Two Scoreboards

The stolen surplus energy that was supposed to go to raising children, maintaining health, building community, and generating the future is sitting in the gap between the productivity line and the compensation line. It is sitting in the CEO’s 325-to-1 ratio. It is sitting in the stock market’s vertical climb. It is sitting in the corporate profit margin that doubled while the birthrate halved.

The body was never wrong.
The civilization was.
The government’s own data proves it.

Docket XIII: The Record Entered

Summary of findings, entered for the record.

Finding 1: The government permitted the systematic decoupling of worker compensation from productivity that followed the 1971 pivot, resulting in the transfer of the civilizational surplus from the working population to the extracting class. [Docket I, Findings 1–6, Exhibit A]

Finding 2: What the average household spends on the floor of existence in the United States now exceeds what one median earner takes home. A household on a single median paycheck operates at a mathematical deficit for the act of drawing breath. [Docket II, Findings 7–10, Exhibits B–D]

Finding 3: The surplus extracted from the working population is measurably located in CEO compensation (325:1), corporate profits (doubled as a share of GDP), institutional real estate acquisition (25–30% of home purchases in some metros), and the stock market’s vertical climb. The destruction of the human organism is the fuel source, not a side effect. [Docket III, Findings 11–15, Exhibit E]

Finding 4: The biological response of the American population, tracked by the government’s own health agencies, includes: anxiety rising by nearly one full standard deviation, suicide rising 37% (2000–2018), teen depression doubling, drug overdose deaths rising fifteenfold to their 2022 peak, school shootings rising roughly twelvefold (per year, 1970s to 2021), life expectancy declining for three consecutive years, and autoimmune disease surging. Every data point maps precisely onto a policy decision that removed the material floor. [Docket IV, Findings 16–25, Exhibits F–G]

Finding 5: The United States Constitution does not mention children. The United States is the only nation that has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The defense budget is roughly ten times the education budget. The agency responsible for preventing youth suicide was proposed for dissolution. [Docket V, Findings 26–32, Exhibit H]

Finding 6: The institutions claiming authority over the population, political, corporate, and religious, have systematically violated the people they claim to serve. The government failed to hold them accountable in proportion to the harm. [Docket VI, Findings 33–39]

Finding 7: Peer OECD nations that maintained the material floor did not experience comparable biological collapse. The architecture is the variable. The government built the architecture. [Docket VII, Findings 40–43]

Finding 8: Three investment firms are the largest single shareholder in roughly 88% of S&P 500 companies and among the largest owners of the conglomerates that dominate American media. The companies they hold fund the lobby groups that write the legislation and finance the PACs that elect the legislators. The loop is closed. The citizen has no structural access point. [Docket VIII, Findings 44–50, Exhibit I]

Finding 9: The government has permitted animal carcinogens and toxic additives banned in the European Union and elsewhere. It allows corporations to self-certify the safety of chemicals in the food supply. Four corporations control the majority of sector after sector of the food supply. The food industry spends hundreds of millions lobbying the agency that is supposed to regulate it. [Docket IX, Findings 51–58]

Finding 10: Federal lobbying reached $4.4 billion in 2024. The pharmaceutical industry has spent $6.1 billion lobbying since 1999. Citizens United legalized unlimited independent corporate election spending. The revolving door ensures regulators and the regulated are the same people. In one documented case, the purchase of legislation returned $220 for every $1 invested. [Docket X, Findings 59–64, Exhibit J]

Finding 11: The government has weaponized federal agencies against persons within its jurisdiction, turned a chemical agent banned in warfare on its own civilians, systematically dismantled agencies created to protect public welfare, and failed to enforce its own Constitution against its own officials. The architecture is not negligent. It is hostile. [Docket XI, Findings 65–69]

This docket does not request reform. Reform implies the architecture was built in good faith and requires adjustment. The data does not support that interpretation.

This docket enters into the record the government’s own numbers, cross-referenced across its own agencies, spanning five decades, demonstrating a single coherent pattern: the systematic conversion of the civilizational surplus, the finite energy of the American people, into institutional profit, while the biological organism that produces that energy collapses.

The government recorded the collapse. The government did not stop it. The government profited from it.

The numbers do not require belief. They do not require agreement. They require only eyes.

Entered this day, 2026.
The record is open.

The body was never wrong. The civilization was. The government’s own data proves it.

Sources Entered into Evidence

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[2] Economic Policy Institute. “CEO Pay Has Skyrocketed 1,460% Since 1978.” 2022. CEO pay updates, 2025–2026.

[3] Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer Expenditure Survey, 2010–2024.

[4] U.S. Census Bureau. Median Individual and Household Income data, 2010–2024.

[5] Bureau of Economic Analysis. National Income and Product Accounts. Corporate profits.

[6] Federal Reserve FRED Database. Corporate profits as % of GDP.

[7] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NVSS. Suicide rates, 1928–2024.

[8] CDC WONDER Database. Drug overdose deaths, 1970–2024.

[9] SAMHSA. National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2010–2022.

[10] Twenge, J.M. (2000). “The Age of Anxiety?” JPSP, 79(6), 1007–1021.

[11] Becker, P. & Stelter, R. (2018). “Age of Anxiety and Depression Revisited.” J. Affective Disorders, 235, 60–68.

[12] Luo, F. et al. (2011). “Impact of Business Cycles on US Suicide Rates.” Am. J. Public Health, 101(6).

[13] Martínez-Alés, G. et al. (2021). “Recent Rise of Suicide Mortality in the US.” Ann. Rev. Public Health, 43.

[14] Case, A. & Deaton, A. (2020). Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Princeton UP.

[15] Duffy, M.E., Twenge, J.M. & Joiner, T.E. (2019). “Trends in Mood and Anxiety.” J. Adolescent Health, 65.

[16] CDC/NCHS Data Brief No. 471 (2023). Suicide and homicide death rates among persons aged 10–24, 2001–2021.

[17] National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (Japan). 2023 revision.

[18] American Psychological Association (2025). “New Policies Affecting Access to Mental Health Care.”

[19] Powell, L.F. Jr. (1971). “Confidential Memorandum: Attack on American Free Enterprise System.”

[20] U.S. Department of Education. Enacted Discretionary Budget, FY2010–FY2024.

[21] U.S. Department of Defense. Discretionary Budget Authority, FY2010–FY2024.

[22] K–12 School Shooting Database. Washington Post school shootings tracker.

[23] National Association of Realtors. Investor Activity in the Housing Market, 2022–2024.

[24] CMS National Health Expenditure Data, 1970–2024.

[25] USDA Official Food Plans: Cost of Food at Home, 2024.

[26] CDC/NCHS. Divorce rate data. Peak: 22.6/1,000 married women, 1980.

[27] CIASE Report (2021). Sexual violence in the French Catholic Church.

[28] Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017).

[29] German Bishops’ Conference. MHG Study on clergy sexual abuse.

[30] John Jay College. Reports on clergy sexual abuse in the United States.

[31] Ryan Commission (Ireland). Report on Child Abuse (2009).

[32] United Nations. Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification status.

[33] United States Constitution. Full text. Absence of the word “child” confirmed.

[34] Fichtner, J., Heemskerk, E.M. & Garcia-Bernardo, J. (2017). “Hidden Power of the Big Three?” Cambridge University Press.

[35] Harvard Business Review (2019). Big Three largest single shareholder in 88% of S&P 500 firms.

[36] OpenSecrets (2025). Federal lobbying set new record in 2024: $4.4 billion.

[37] Bloomberg Government. Top-Performing Lobbying Firms Report, 2024. $4.5 billion total.

[38] Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010).

[39] Telecommunications Act of 1996. FCC deregulation of media cross-ownership.

[40] The Guardian / Food & Water Watch (2021). Joint investigation: corporate food monopoly.

[41] Farm Aid. Corporate Control of Agriculture data.

[42] FDA GRAS (“Generally Recognized as Safe”) framework. 21 CFR 170.30.

[43] European Food Safety Authority (2022). Titanium dioxide ban.

[44] University of Kentucky / EWG (2024). U.S. vs. EU food additive and pesticide comparison.

[45] TIME (2025). “Why Some Food Additives Banned in Europe Aren’t in the U.S.”

[46] Issue One (2025). Big Tech lobbying analysis: $61.5 million combined in 2024.

[47] U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 (Emoluments).

[48] Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Due Process and Equal Protection.

[49] Flores Settlement Agreement (1997). Minimum standards for detention of minors.

[50] Associated Press (March 2025). At least 147 state lawmakers in 44 states accused of sexual harassment or misconduct since 2017.

[51] The Conversation (November 2018). One in four government officials accused of sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era still in office.

[52] U.S. House Committee on Ethics (December 2024). Report on Representative Matt Gaetz.

[53] Chemical Weapons Convention (1993), Article I(5).

[54] U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Inspector General (June 2021). Review of U.S. Park Police actions at Lafayette Park.

[55] Bagdikian, B. The Media Monopoly (1983); The New Media Monopoly (2004).

[56] Azar, J., Schmalz, M. & Tecu, I. (2018). “Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership.” Journal of Finance, 73(4).

[57] The Sentencing Project. Juvenile Life Without Parole: An Overview.

[58] Song, H. et al. (2018). “Association of Stress-Related Disorders With Subsequent Autoimmune Disease.” JAMA, 319(23).

[59] Gallup (2013). Americans’ average sleep, 1942 and 2013.

[60] U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Revocation of authorization for brominated vegetable oil (2024) and FD&C Red No. 3 (2025).

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