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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.
Today we look at how anti-vaccine influencers are advising pseudoscience treatments for people to remove the vaccine from their bodies, Britney Spears' crucial conservator hearing, and a blinking "Demon Star."
Here's the latest on that and everything else we're watching this Friday morning. 
In a TikTok video that has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, Dr. Carrie Madej recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that’s been banned as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration, to “take nanotechnologies out of you.”
The video is one of several methods anti-vaccine influencers and communities on social media have in recent weeks suggested to their many followers who have capitulated and received the Covid shot.
Anti-vaccine message boards are now littered with users caving to societal pressure or work mandates and receiving a coronavirus vaccination.
Long before Covid, anti-vaccine influencers and alternative health entrepreneurs promoted unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments they claimed would rid children of the alleged toxins that lingered after routine childhood immunizations. With Covid came a new group of believers.
Read more here.
Also in Covid news today, anti-viral drugs are on the way and we explain what they are and what they do. Friday's Top Stories
A federal appeals court Thursday granted former President Donald Trump's request to temporarily block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. 
If the termination petition is approved, the singer will gain full autonomy to make her own financial and medical decisions for the first time since 2008. 
“It’s a song about censorship,” said Jeroen de Kloet, who studies the cultural implications of globalization. “But then it’s being censored, so that only amplifies the impact of the song.” 
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Lauri Jetsu, an astrophysicist at the University of Helsinki, is following a tradition that may stretch back thousands of years.
For more than a decade, he’s studied the bright star Algol, one of the most unusual stars in the sky, with its brightness visibly changing every few days.
His research suggests those fluctuations have been noted since at least ancient Egyptian times, and he believes observations made more than 3,000 years ago can contribute to the modern scientific understanding of how Algol behaves.
Read the full story here.
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