A Netherlands court last week ruled that Bill Gates can stand trial in the Netherlands, in a case involving seven people injured by COVID-19 vaccines. Other defendants include Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, and the Dutch state.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) -- authors of "The Disinformation Dozen" -- planned to "kill" X (Twitter), shut down popular social media accounts on other platforms, censor non-establishment voices and "bring back" attacks on "antivaxx" voices, according to internal documents leaked by CCDH insiders.
Adding fluoride to drinking water provides very limited dental benefits, according to an updated Cochrane Review published today. The review follows a California federal court ruling that fluoridation poses an "unreasonable risk" of reduced IQ in children.
The End the Vaccine Carveout Act would end the broad protection from liability for injuries resulting from vaccines listed on the CDC’s Childhood Immunization Schedule.
A federal judge rejected the EPA's argument that the exact level at which fluoride is hazardous is too unclear to determine if the chemical presents an unreasonable risk, and ruled the agency must take regulatory action.
The U.S. government’s actions fueled “a censorship ecosystem” that suppressed people’s First Amendment rights and made it difficult for some certain small independent media outlets to compete online.
Federal public health agencies continue to ignore scientific advances, made largely by prominent scientists working outside of the U.S., despite the scientists' appeals to agencies to investigate the link and stop telling parents aluminum in vaccines is safe.
According to independent journalist Paul D. Thacker, who today released the latest batch of “Twitter Files,” emails reveal that the Biden administration worked closely with platforms like Twitter to censor content and influence social media content moderation policies.
Public health authorities have taken a series of actions in recent weeks to facilitate the possible future distribution of bird flu testing and vaccines, even as the CDC maintains the current public health risk from bird flu is low.
Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and Portugal will test the new vaccination card in a variety of formats, including printed cards, mailed copies and digital versions for smartphones. Critics called it a "direct threat to freedom."
A study released today of excess mortality in 125 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic found the major causes of death globally stemmed from public health establishment's response, including mandates and lockdowns that caused severe stress, harmful medical interventions and the COVID-19 vaccines.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled the plaintiffs in the Murthy v. Missouri censorship case didn’t have standing to sue the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies to censor certain content -- but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the similar case he and Children’s Health Defense filed against the administration will move forward.
Data from 47 countries in the Western world showed excess mortality has remained high for the last three consecutive years, according to a study published Monday in BMJ Public Health. The authors called for a thorough investigation.
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were vaccinated against the virus died at nearly twice the rate compared to their unvaccinated counterparts, according to a two-and-a-half-year study conducted by researchers at Ohio State University
Government agencies are relying on PCR tests as they ramp up testing for bird flu, but critics argue the technology is likely to lead to false positives, just as it did with COVID-19, because it was never accurate as a diagnostic tool.
After years of reporting on news about vaccine injuries as "misinformation" and "conspiracy theory," The New York Times today reported that "thousands" may have been injured by the COVID-19 vaccines -- but ran accompanying articles declaring the shots safe and life-saving.
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During a hearing of the U.S. House of Reps. Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, investigative journalists said they were “obstructed at every turn”
An investigation by The BMJ into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, found multiple deficiencies in the system, including the revelation that the government runs two systems — one for the public, and a private back-end system that contains all of the corrections and updates, including deaths that occurred after an initial injury.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder and chairman on leave from Children's Health Defense, made the announcement in Philadelphia, about a week after news first leaked of his impending break with the Democratic Party.
In his latest series of revelations about the Center for Countering Digital Hate, investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker disclosed the group's chairman is Simon Clark, a former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a think tank "aligned with the corporate arm of the Democratic Party."
According to Mediaite, which broke the story late this afternoon, a "campaign insider" revealed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children's Health Defense founder and chairman on leave, will announce a third-party run for president on Oct. 9 in Philadelphia.
Documents released Tuesday by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) revealed more evidence that the White House pressured Facebook to censor or remove the accounts of the “Disinformation Dozen,” often directly citing the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s “Disinformation Dozen” report, published in March 2021.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday paused an order that would have restricted the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies after two lower courts found key government officials likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring the companies to censor information about COVID-19.
Researchers in Australia looking for signs that vaccination against COVID-19 might protect against other infectious diseases found just the opposite
In a roundtable discussion last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children's Health Defense chairman on leave, convened panelists Sharyl Attkisson, Jamel Holley, Jenin Younes and Glenn Greenwald to discuss how free speech has come under attack in the U.S. and what can be done to defend First Amendment rights and "dissidents to establishment orthodoxy."
YouTube on Tuesday announced updates to its medical misinformation policy, tightening restrictions on what it described as "harmful" claims about COVID-19, vaccines and cancer treatments, but critics said the tech giant lacks the expertise to make these judgments and its plans to restrict such content could violate people’s civil rights and stifle scientific debate.
Vinay Prasad, M.D., MPH, found that 38% of his lab's submissions to preprint servers were rejected or removed -- even though those same articles eventually were published in journals and extensively downloaded.
X Corp., the parent company of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on Monday, sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the group -- "masquerading" as a legitimate research firm -- illegally obtained data and used it in a "scare campaign" to deter advertisers from the platform.
Unredacted Facebook emails released by Rep. Jim Jordan today expose White House demands to quash narratives, and remove memes and posts contradicting the government’s COVID-19 messaging.
A new exposé by GreenMedInfo's Sayer Ji traces the donors to the Center for Countering Digital Hate to media empires, government and political influence networks
In a hearing marred by contentious interruptions and attempts by House Democrats to remove him as a witness, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CHD chairman on leave from Children’s Health Defense testified before a U.S. House hearing organized by the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
New "Twitter Files" released today by investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker reveal how a "dark money group" helped the White House and Twitter flag social media posts by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children's Health Defense that contradicted the official government narrative on COVID-19.
In his 155-page ruling, Judge Terry Doughty said there is “substantial evidence” the government violated the First Amendment by engaging in a large-scale censorship campaign targeting content that questioned or countered establishment narratives on COVID-19.
In a health policy roundtable discussion on Tuesday, leading critics of U.S. health policy asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children’s Health Defense chairman on leave and Democratic presidential candidate, how his administration would address key issues of concern to the medical freedom movement.
Children's Health Defense on Wednesday sued members of the Trusted News Initiative in the U.S. District Court in Louisiana, alleging they violated antitrust laws and the U.S. Constitution when they collectively colluded with tech giants to censor online news.
Johnson & Johnson filed a "rare type of legal challenge" that if granted, would put a temporary hold on a class action lawsuit filed against the drugmaker by parents alleging Tylenol caused autism spectrum disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children
John Campbell, Ph.D., a retired accident and emergency nurse, nurse teacher and author of two nursing textbooks, analyzed the latest U.K. data showing a sharp increase in excess deaths. Campbell said if this was a terrorist attack "it would be a state of war."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bankrolled the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to the tune of $11 million to promote COVID-19 vaccination as "safe and effective" for pregnant women, according to an investigation published this week by attorney Maggie Thorp.
"The Big Catch-up" initiative, described by the World Health Organization as a "targeted global effort to boost vaccination among children following declines driven by the COVID-19 pandemic," will last 18 months.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday officially launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, telling an overflow crowd in Boston that if he has not "significantly dropped the level of chronic disease in our children by the end of my first term, I do not want you to reelect me."
In the U.S., COVID-19 vaccines injured 26.6 million people, disabled 1.36 million people, caused more than 300,000 excess deaths and cost the economy an estimated $147 billion in damage -- in 2022 alone -- according to a new analysis by Humanity Projects, a wing of Portugal-based research firm Phinance Technologies
A project run by Stanford University served as a "dry run" for President Biden's "disinformation" board, according to journalist Matt Taibbi's latest "Twitter files" release, which he dubbed, "The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine: Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of 'True Stories.'"
Pfizer and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) withheld evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations were causing myocarditis, according to documents obtained by Children's Health Defense via a Freedom of Information Act request to the CDC, and documents leaked this week to Project Veritas.
Experts told The Defender the proposed amendments to the World Health Organization's International Health Regulations would give the agency unprecedented power over national governments and override national sovereignty
COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, including Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna, lobbied Twitter and other social media platforms to set moderation rules that would flag purported COVID-19-related "misinformation," according to Lee Fang, who reported on the latest "Twitter files."
A lawsuit filed today by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and multiple other plaintiffs, alleges the Trusted News Initiative, a self-described "industry partnership" launched in March 2020 by several of the world’s largest news organizations, partnered with Big Tech firms to collectively censor online news.
A growing number of parents oppose vaccine mandates as a precondition for public school attendance, and interest among adults in receiving COVID-19 booster shots is waning, according to a national poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Children's Health Defense and three other organizations are seeking open public access to critical sworn depositions and documents already produced on behalf of plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging the federal government colluded with several Big Tech firms to censor COVID-19-related content on social media.
A groundbreaking new scientific paper published Tuesday exposes the suppression and censorship of doctors and medical experts who opposed and challenged the official COVID-19 narrative
Internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos, emails and public documents outline "an expansive effort" by DHS to influence tech platforms, despite the Biden administration's failure earlier this year to launch a Disinformation Governance Board.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory committee today voted unanimously (15-0) to add COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months old to the new Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedules, which will be rolled out in February 2023
VAERS data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 1,437,273 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID-19 vaccines, including 31,470 deaths and 261,738 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and Oct. 7, 2022