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Public Health Opponents Leverage Hantavirus Outbreak to Spread Conspiracies and Misinformation
Many familiar faces from the COVID-19 pandemic are back.
 • Olivia Riggio
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…
 • Billie Jean Sweeney
RFK Jr.‘s Former Anti-Vax Org Launches RICO Suit Against Leading Pediatrics Group
The lawsuit by Children’s Health Defense comes as the American Academy of Pediatrics wages its own legal battle against Kennedy’s HHS.
 • Walker Bragman
Jon Stewart Praises Attorney Behind Years of Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Public Health Lawfare
“You’re a civil rights attorney who has been canceled by both the right and the left, which means you must be doing something right.”
 • Walker Bragman
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
 • Walker Bragman
Pro-Ivermectin, Anti-Vax Group Positioned to Influence CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee
New ACIP Chair Dr. Kirk Milhoan, who attacks mRNA vaccines, is affiliated with the Independent Medical Alliance.
 • Walker Bragman
Robert Kennedy Jr. ‘Absolutely Tried to Silence Me’: Blogger Sued by HHS Secretary Speaks Out
David Vickrey spoke with Important Context about the legal battle that consumed the last five years of his life.
 • Walker Bragman
Kennedy Said He Was Done With Children’s Health Defense; His Wife Headlined Its Annual Conference
Actress Cheryl Hines spoke at the anti-vax star-studded affair this weekend.
 • Walker Bragman
Anti-Vaxxers Plan to “Make Europe Healthy Again”
An anti-vaxxer sitting on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee pitched European parliament members on “MEHA.”
 • Walker Bragman
1,000 Doctors Challenge Florida’s Anti-Vax Surgeon General
Joe Ladapo ended vaccine requirements but not everyone is quietly accepting the dangerous policy change.
 • Walker Bragman
Rewriting Extremism: Right-Wing Seeks Nation to Mourn Charlie Kirk
The Right’s ‘martyr’ was an ideologue, a conspiracy theorist, a bigot, and an agitator who glorified violence.
 • Walker Bragman and Tina-Desiree Berg
Florida Surgeon General to Appear With Ivermectin Group That Called mRNA Vaccines “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
Ladapo just announced Florida will halt all school vaccine mandates.
 • Walker Bragman
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