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Senate confirms Trump nominees Bhattacharya, Makary to lead NIH, FDA

The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed non-establishment Trump picks Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the NIH and Marty Makary to the lead the FDA, both of whom have criticized COVID-19 measures.

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Doug Mainwaring

• Mar 26, 2025Mar 26, 2025

How ‘existential threats’ help the pandemic-industrial complex put profits over people

International public health’s obsession with pandemics as an ‘existential threat’ relies on shaky evidence, diverting resources from proven health strategies toward vaccinating and locking down economies.

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REPPARE

• Mar 25, 2025

Top FDA lawyer resigns after Josh Hawley exposes defense of abortion, vaccine mandates

A Biden DOJ lawyer who defended abortion and vaccine mandates will no longer be the top legal representative for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for the Trump administration following public scrutiny of her history.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Mar 13, 2025

Trump FDA nominee Marty Makary pledges objective look at abortion pills, shots, food ingredients

Dr. Marty Makary, nominated as the next commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, pledged to restore public trust with impartial, science-based reviews on everything from abortion pills to vaccine policy to food chemicals.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Mar 11, 2025Mar 12, 2025

Hawaii kills bill to end vaccine exemptions after massive pushback from public

Rep. Diamond Garcia, House minority floor leader, who opposed the bill, told The Defender it was defeated because the 'people of Hawai'i sent a clear message: medical freedom is non-negotiable.'

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Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., The Defender

• Mar 11, 2025Mar 10, 2025

Trump nominee Jay Bhattacharya says NIH will not use aborted babies in research

COVID establishment critic and medical expert Jay Bhattacharya told Sen. Josh Hawley that the Trump administration will not allow the use of aborted babies’ tissue in research funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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Matt Lamb

• Mar 6, 2025Mar 6, 2025

Yale scientists link post-COVID jab illness to biomarkers that include elevated spike protein

Yale researchers are working to discover the causal mechanisms behind ‘post-vaccination syndrome,’ a cluster of symptoms including excessive fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, and insomnia.

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Emily Mangiaracina

• Feb 20, 2025Feb 21, 2025

Scientists have retracted more than 500 COVID-19 papers since pandemic: watchdog group

Contrary to insistence that dissent from the medical establishment’s pandemic advice was 'anti-science,' 500-plus studies and articles related to COVID-19 have been retracted for defects of accuracy and objectivity, according to junk-science watchdog Retraction Watch.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Feb 17, 2025Feb 18, 2025

Trump signs executive order to cut off funding to schools that mandate COVID shots

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday barring federal tax dollars to any K-12 public school or higher education institution that continues to mandate COVID shots as a condition of student attendance.

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Calvin Freiburger

• Feb 17, 2025Feb 18, 2025

Hawaii lawmakers float bill to eliminate religious exemptions

Senate Bill 1437 would eliminate all non-medical exemptions as a way to ensure high rates of vaccination coverage. The bill is part of the ‘governor’s package,’ a set of proposed bills that make up Gov. Josh Green’s legislative agenda.

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Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., The Defender

• Feb 11, 2025Feb 11, 2025

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Senate confirms Trump nominees Bhattacharya, Makary to lead NIH, FDA

How ‘existential threats’ help the pandemic-industrial complex put profits over people

Top FDA lawyer resigns after Josh Hawley exposes defense of abortion, vaccine mandates

Trump FDA nominee Marty Makary pledges objective look at abortion pills, shots, food ingredients

Hawaii kills bill to end vaccine exemptions after massive pushback from public

Trump nominee Jay Bhattacharya says NIH will not use aborted babies in research

Yale scientists link post-COVID jab illness to biomarkers that include elevated spike protein

Scientists have retracted more than 500 COVID-19 papers since pandemic: watchdog group

Trump signs executive order to cut off funding to schools that mandate COVID shots

Hawaii lawmakers float bill to eliminate religious exemptions