New HHS Report on Gender-Affirming Care Rife With False Information

“As soon as you politicize any sort of healthcare it's a really slippery slope.”

Aug 19 • Walker Bragman and Billie Jean Sweeney

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Right Wing Celebrates Former Biden COVID Czar’s Embrace of Unproven COVID Origin Story

“It’s going to shift the Overton Window.”

Aug 8 • Walker Bragman

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July 2026

Trump Allies Deflect From Explosive Diarrhea Epidemic

“The real epidemic here is the relentless legacy media effort to attack Trump and Kennedy on public health issues.”

Jul 27 • Walker Bragman

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Plaintiff in Children’s Health Defense Lawsuit Charged With Murder

A mother who blamed vaccines for the deaths of her toddler twins and joined the anti-vax group’s lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics has…

Jul 3 • Walker Bragman

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June 2026

MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians.

“The Trump administration is really the first to all-out attack nonprofits.”

Jun 30 • Billie Jean Sweeney

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Trump DOJ Settles Lawsuit By Vaccine Skeptic Despite Winning in Court

Anti-mRNA vaccine writer Alex Berenson received a six-figure payout from the case.

Jun 17 • Walker Bragman

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Chair of President’s Cancer Panel Co-Authors Ivermectin Cancer Study Backed By Supplements Company

“It’s marketing disguised as science.”

Jun 3 • Walker Bragman

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May 2026

Public Health Opponents Leverage Hantavirus Outbreak to Spread Conspiracies and Misinformation

Many familiar faces from the COVID-19 pandemic are back.

May 19 • Olivia Riggio

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MAHA Officials Out At FDA

Kennedy vaccine skeptical allies are dropping fast as the White House prepares for midterms.

May 18 • Walker Bragman

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Trump Surgeon General Pick Celebrated DOGE Research Cuts, Called to Halt mRNA Vaccines for Children, and Expressed Anti-Trans Views

Nicole Saphier has promoted a number of unproven public health narratives favored by the right.

May 5 • Walker Bragman

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April 2026

The Heritage Foundation Has a Radical New Project

The rights of women, people of color, gay people, disabled people and trans people—a vast majority of the country—are being targeted by a…

Apr 30 • Billie Jean Sweeney

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Anti-Vaccine Groups Given Unprecedented Access to CDC Vaccine Panel

Robert Kennedy Jr. has added new liaisons to ACIP, tapping old allies from the anti-vaccine movement.

Apr 27 • Walker Bragman

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