Del Bigtree

Nineteen pharmaceutical companies. Twenty-one bribery investigations. Over $1.1 billion in sanctions. Zero admissions of wrongdoing.

A new peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics spent years combing through OECD bribery reports across five countries and two decades. The names on the list are not fringe operators. Novartis, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Teva, Novo Nordisk. Bribes were paid through shell companies, fake consulting contracts, sham clinical studies, charitable foundations, and spa weekends billed as medical education. The analysis found that in case after case, bribery was approved or knowingly tolerated by senior management.

A separate 25-year analysis of US pharmaceutical kickback fines found that companies paid penalties amounting to 2.2% of the revenue tied to the violations. The penalties are not a deterrent. They are overhead.

The article puts all of this in the broader context of an industry that also brought us the opioid crisis, suppressed safety data on antidepressants in children, and pushed through a COVID vaccine rollout that bypassed standard long-term safety requirements while governments indemnified the manufacturers.

https://thehighwire.com/editorial/nineteen-companies-twenty-one-investigations-zero-admissions-of-wrongdoing/

@delbigtree

The United States positions itself as the leader in medicine, the best in the world at advancing science and saving lives. Ed Clay's experience running a cancer research clinic tells a different story.

Getting to a Phase 1 safety trial with the FDA in the United States takes 5 to 7 years and costs an average of $30 to $50 million. Clay's clinic can do the equivalent work in as little as 6 months for under $1 million.

Clay frames this as an ethical failure, not just a bureaucratic one. The clinical trial model, as it currently exists, asks terminal patients to wait 10 to 15 years for treatments that might help them, when many of those patients don't have 10 to 15 months.

Modern healthcare, in his view, treats patients as numbers rather than individuals, and the system is built around its own timeline rather than theirs.

The regulatory barriers that push this research to Mexico are not protecting patients. They are keeping treatments away from them.

@delbigtree

Senator @RonJohnson's documents reveal that while the Biden administration was softening public warnings about COVID vaccine safety signals, it had internal working groups dedicated to managing the fallout from those same signals. The working groups included myocarditis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, thrombocytopenia, stroke, and one simply called the death project.

Meanwhile, strokes are getting younger. Headlines about the alarming rise in stroke rates among young people have become routine.

The read on that is blunt: we are looking at a crime scene, and we have the documents to prove it.

A new study on military personnel adds to the picture. Among soldiers who received two COVID shots, nearly 49% showed a relative increase exceeding 1.5 times their individual baseline on a blood test used to detect heart failure and measure the extent of heart damage.

Half the military.

The government can revise the food pyramid and update nutritional guidelines to make soldiers more combat-ready. How does any of that matter if you are simultaneously injecting a heart-stressing product into them, with boosters required every year, under a liability shield that makes accountability in court nearly impossible?

Del and Jefferey discuss

@delbigtree

Dr. @RobertWMalone resigned as vice chair of ACIP, stepping down from a committee he had helped reshape, citing a desire to avoid drama. Before he left, he was finally asking the kind of questions about vaccine safety, efficacy, and testing that the committee had gone years without asking.

His read on the judge's ruling that threw out @RobertFKennedyJr.'s realignment of the vaccine schedule is direct. The ruling asserts that any vaccine decisions made at the executive branch must consult ACIP, and Malone calls that contrived. By congressional statute, ACIP is meant to serve as a fully independent outside voice, free from industry capture, professional organizations, and bureaucratic influence, providing advice to the CDC director, who is the only person who actually makes decisions. ACIP does not create vaccine policy. Its output is recommendations, nothing more.

The argument that the schedule realignment was invalid because ACIP didn't weigh in on it, Malone says, is spurious logic that is not consistent with the facts. His conclusion is that a group of lawyers constructed another form of lawfare specifically to undermine Kennedy, using ACIP as the vehicle and a contrived legal argument as the weapon.

@delbigtree

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program includes something called a vaccine injury table. Each vaccine covered by the program lists the injuries considered associated with it and the timeframe in which those injuries must arise. When an injury meets those criteria, the burden shifts to the government to show the vaccine didn't cause it, rather than requiring the injured person to prove that it did.

The structure was deliberately made this way. It puts the responsibility on the CDC, FDA, and HHS to do the science on these products. If they haven't shown a vaccine doesn't cause a particular harm, but have found it's associated, it belongs on the table.

Aaron Siri has been fielding what he describes as an endless stream of questions from legacy media challenging this point. His answer is simple: the federal statute says explicitly that injuries to be added to the table are those that are associated with the vaccine. That is the exact word in the law. If someone objects to that standard, the remedy is to go to Congress and change it.

@delbigtree

The conversation around autism and vaccines is shifting on a public level, and the stories driving that shift all follow the same pattern.

It starts the same for so many parents. They have well-baby visit at their pediatrician, then they get the MMR and varicella (or some other combination), and then the slow regression begins. Parents watch their children lose speech and motor skills and are left searching for answers that the medical establishment refuses to provide.

The ask here is simple. Know what is going into your child's body. The vitamin K shot given at birth is not real vitamin K. It carries the biggest black box warning available, and it contains aluminum. Parents deserve to know that before they consent, not after.

Nobody is asking for a debate. The facts exist for the safety of children and adults alike, and informed consent is not a radical idea. It is the bare minimum.

@delbigtree

Canada is on the verge of surpassing 100,000 assisted suicides. That number exceeds the country's entire World War II death toll. 🇨🇦

This is MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying). Track 1 applies to those whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable. Track 2 is where it gets deeply troubling.

Canada's own government website describes Track 2 to apply where a natural death is NOT reasonably foreseeable, leaving hospital bioethicists to determine whether a person has given "serious consideration" to other means of relieving their suffering. There is no clear standard. There is no defined boundary. It is, by design, a massive gray area.

The United Nations has formally told Canada to stop Track 2 entirely. Mental health professionals, disability advocates, and medical groups are raising alarms about how poverty and lack of access to adequate care are shaping patients' decisions to choose death. Even doctors are saying something is inherently wrong here.

Track 2 has not even been formally approved yet. The expansion it would bring is almost unimaginable.

The medical system is supposed to protect the vulnerable. This is not that.

@DelBigtree

School lunches were always the obvious answer.

When the early MAHA conversations turned to where real change could begin, where the most impact could happen fastest, everyone landed in the same place.

Feed the kids differently, and you change everything downstream.

The "Eat Real Food" campaign just launched, and the reframe it offers is pretty amazing.

Stop treating children like they require a separate category of food altogether. Normalize what real food looks like in institutional settings and at home, and let that example do the work.

The path forward runs through schools and through parents at the same time, with communities integrated in the process together, not one without the other.

It's all in, and it's important enough to be.

@delbigtree

A new study is asking the question that should have been asked before a single dose was ever administered.

"Aluminum Adjuvants, Autoimmunity and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comprehensive Mechanistic, Neuropathological and Legal Analysis."

Here's what it connects. Autopsy studies of autistic brains show that 63-64% had evidence of autoimmune encephalitis, the immune system producing lymphocytes that attack and destroy neurons, creating brain injury that manifests as autism.

On the other side of the equation: aluminum adjuvants are added to vaccines specifically to amplify the immune response. They were added without anyone fully understanding the mechanism. Inject aluminum, the immune response magnifies... and nobody asked what else was being inflamed in the process.

Here's what they missed. When inflammation occurs, the entire body is affected, including the brain. The neuroinflammation piece was simply neglected. They looked at the inflammatory cells that hastened and magnified the immune response and stopped there.

The studies intended to establish aluminum's safety did a fine job of demonstrating its efficacy.

They really, really screwed up on safe.

@delbigtree

Five studies. Every single one reaches the same conclusion: the vaccinated are sicker.

Not one retrospective study anywhere in the world, by any government, any health agency, any institution, has ever shown us that vaccinated children are healthier. Not one. The entire premise of this program has never been validated by the simple comparison it was built on.

This is science in America today. This is the system that is telling you vaccines are safe and effective. A system where a scientist will look you in the eye, confirm the data is good, and then walk away.

@delbigtree

On behalf of ICAN, we just sent a copy of chapter 11 of Vaccines, Amen to the entire new federal autism committee. If you haven't already read this chapter, you can read the whole thing in the attached letter. I trust that after you read it, you'll see why the statement "vaccines do not cause autism" is a belief, not science!

https://icandecide.org/press-release/ican-urges-hhs-autism-committee-to-review-the-association-between-autism-and-infant-vaccines/

@aaronsiri

Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the godfather of vaccinology, sent @AaronSiri a letter.

He wrote that Siri's "shameful legacy" would be "dead and sick unvaccinated children" resulting from his "irresponsible anti-vaccination campaign."
Aaron Siri wrote back.

"Your dissatisfaction stems from the fact that our exchange revealed the damning gaps in the safety of childhood vaccines and that the discipline of vaccinology overall is unscientific and dangerous."

"Perhaps your biggest regret should be what was made clear in that deposition. Your approach to vaccinology is to presume vaccines are safe regardless of whether the evidence supports that presumption."

"I implore you to consider that those seriously injured, sometimes killed by vaccines, also matter. Their lives, their suffering, and their families - they matter."

And then the close:

"When the tide turns, and it will turn, you will be the face of that harm. That shall be your legacy unless you correct course. There is still time."

The deposition of Stanley Plotkin is one of the most important legal records in the history of this fight. 10 hours under oath. And it showed the world exactly what vaccinology is built on. We have uploaded the entire thing here on our X account.

We will never stop fighting for the families living with what that presumption of safety cost them.

@delbigtree

ICAN Lead attorney @AaronSiri explains why framing vaccines as their own unique category, a religion, is the key that unlocks it for people.

Because here's where a lot of people who are trying to wrap their minds around this are: if the CDC, the FDA, all 50 state health agencies, and the entire medical profession got vaccines wrong... what else can't you trust? That's a terrifying place to land. It threatens the whole worldview.

But vaccines aren't like other products. No other product has had 40 years of completely unfettered promotion in the form of billions of dollars a year, no serious counter-pressure, and liability immunity baked in by law since 1986.

That immunity removed the only thing that keeps any industry honest - the ability to be sued.

No liability meant no economic incentive for safety, and no real pre- or post-licensure safety testing. It corrupted the agencies that were supposed to be watching.

Once people understand that vaccines sit in their own unique bucket, and that the liability shield is what broke the system, they don't have to blow up everything they believe. They just have to understand one thing.

And then it all makes sense.

@delbigtree

"Are you saying that was done on purpose?"

"Absolutely. That's why it's conspiracy."

GSK3 is an enzyme. When it runs unchecked, it drives chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is the engine behind virtually every chronic disease plaguing modern humanity.

Lithium is the natural inhibitor of GSK3. It is how the body keeps that enzyme in check.

And we have been systematically depleted of it.

When populations don't know lithium is essential, and when it disappears from the water, the soil, and the food supply, GSK3 activity goes unchecked in virtually everyone. Chronic inflammation becomes the baseline and chronic disease becomes normal.

Strip lithium out of the water and out of the soil. Make sure nobody's talking about it, or that what they do know is "propaganda," GSK3 runs wild. Everybody gets sick.

"Are you saying that was done on purpose?"

"Absolutely. That's why it's conspiracy."

@delbigtree

Researchers went into the broken VAERS system (the one we've always been told captures less than 1% of adverse events) and looked specifically at Tdap vaccination in pregnant women.

What they found should be front page news.

Stillbirth: a reporting odds ratio of 285. Pre-term delivery: 196. Fetal death: 140.

Those numbers mean the signals appearing in the database are not slightly elevated. They are hundreds of times higher than expected. And that's in a system everyone (including the researchers themselves) acknowledges is wildly under-reporting to begin with.

Meanwhile, Canada just locked its vaccine injury data for 15 years. The country that froze bank accounts and crushed civil liberties to force compliance with a vaccine program is now hiding the outcomes. If the data looked good, they'd be rushing it out the door.

And here in the US, Politico published a piece fretting that the Supreme Court might allow doctors to speak freely with their patients about vaccines. That's the hill they're choosing to die on - the right of licensing boards to punish physicians for practicing medicine with an independent thought.

This is what the broken system looks like in full:

A passive surveillance network that captures almost nothing. Manufacturers with zero liability. Doctors who can lose their licenses for telling patients the truth. And now Rand Paul's bill — S.3853 — that would end pharmaceutical immunity and allow Americans to sue vaccine makers like any other product manufacturer.

Call your representatives. Support this bill. And if they vote against it, remember it.

@delbigtree

The press exists for one reason: to be deeply annoying to power. No allegiance to government. No allegiance to industry. Profoundly skeptical. Inherently disagreeable. Free to investigate whatever it wants.

That's not a radical idea. That's the entire point.

But question the vaccine program? You're a heretic. Ask why regulatory agencies make the decisions they make?

You're dangerous.

We just watched four years of exactly what happens when journalism abandons that duty. And somehow people still can't connect the dots.

The fourth estate is a firewall. And we intend to keep it standing.

@delbigtree

No one is saying people don't get sick. That's not the argument.

The argument is about cause.

Science is observational. You observe a real phenomenon: two or more people getting sick in the same space with similar symptoms. That's real. That has always been real. No one in this conversation is disputing that.

You then form a hypothesis. There is a submicroscopic particle inside these fluids being transmitted from person to person, causing illness.

That is a hypothesis. And here is where the scientific method has a very specific requirement that, according to Alec Zeck, has never been met.

In order to move from hypothesis to experimentation, you need to isolate the presumed cause, the independent variable, the thing you believe is responsible, by itself, and demonstrate that it produces the observed effects.

With respect to the entire field of virology? Zeck says that has never been done.

He says that, instead, we have mistaken pseudoscience for science because it came from authoritative bodies. Governments. Institutions. And because those sources said it, we stopped asking whether other explanations for the observed phenomena had ever been seriously considered.

The observed phenomenon is real. The presumed cause for that phenomenon? That, says Zeck, has never been proven to exist nor proven to cause any of it.

@delbigtree

The moment this happened, something broke open in me that has never closed. I wasn't on The Doctors by accident. I was there to learn how the machine works. I watched them build fear segment by segment, product by product, and when you understand how it's manufactured, you can never unsee it. That's when everything became clear. This has always been about one thing: you will never put a needle in my child's arm by force. Every film, every broadcast, every fight. It all starts and ends there. I'm still on that mission. And I'm just getting started.

@delbigtree

🎙️ Del Bigtree on the moment everything changed.

It was supposed to be just another segment on The Doctors. A senator walks on stage to announce a forced vaccination bill, and something in Del Bigtree snapped.

"It was a God moment for me. It woke up a monster that I don't think anyone really wanted to deal with."

Del had spent years behind the scenes on one of television's biggest medical talk shows, never having been to a doctor in his life. His mom couldn't figure out why he was there. He says now he understands: he was there to learn exactly how the machine works.

How they make you afraid of disease. How they sell pharmaceutical products by manufacturing fear. How a "flu outbreak" segment is produced to maximize panic. He watched it happen from the inside.

And then he decided to use everything he learned to flip the script.

"The simplest way to undo this wrong is to show you that you should be afraid of the vaccine too."

If you're scared of measles, Del wants you to know there's a real chance the measles vaccine is even more dangerous. So he made a film called Vaxxed to show you exactly what that means.

The mission that has never stopped:

You will never force-vaccinate my kids. Or me.

A decade later, he's still on that mission. And the momentum has never been stronger.

👉 Watch the full clip at thehighwire.com

@delbigtree

"I HAD TO LEAVE MY MARRIAGE."

Bill Gates spent a lot of time trying to build his image as someone who saves children.

Bill Gates was intimately working with Jeffrey Epstein, perhaps the most notorious sex trafficker, who spent his life destroying children.

That's what we're dealing with here. And that is Bill Gates.

We've all been looking through the keyhole of these emails. Context is hard to decipher sometimes. But there's one person who really knows the truth besides Bill Gates himself.

His wife. Melinda Gates. The person whose name was on the foundation until just recently.

Here's what she said when asked about the emails that were released:

"Just unbelievable sadness. Unbelievable sadness, right? And again, I'm able to take my own sadness and look at those young girls and say, 'My god, how did that happen to those girls, right?' And so for me, it's just sadness. Sadness for...I left my marriage. I had to leave my marriage. I wanted to leave my marriage. I had to leave the—I felt I needed to eventually leave the foundation. So, it's just sad. That's the truth."

Read that again.

"I had to leave my marriage."

"I felt I needed to eventually leave the foundation."

This is the woman who stood beside him for decades. Who ran the foundation with him. Who had access to everything.

When the Epstein connection came to light, she walked away from it all.

The man positioning himself as the world's humanitarian was working with a convicted sex offender. And his wife couldn't stomach it anymore.

Bill Gates wants you to trust him with your health. Your children's vaccines. Global policy decisions.

But his own wife couldn't trust him enough to stay.

@delbigtree