During COVID-19, Dr. Paul Offit momentarily became something of a skeptic, telling media outlets he wouldn’t get a COVID-19 booster and wouldn’t recommend it. Now, he’s back to recommending the vaccines for infants as young as 6 months old. Dr. Paul Offit is a familiar figure to most Defender readers — he’s been pushing vaccines for…
This ferocious and sustained attack on the MHRA which has just been published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pandemic Response and Recovery was sent on 24 October last year to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee. An APPG is an informal group of parliamentarians from both the Commons and the…
Originally published on 2 Feb 2024 Euronews reported: In order to put the current protests taking place across Europe into context, it is important to understand where it all started. The history of the current protests can be traced back to the Green Deal (2019) which involved significant alterations to achieve climate neutrality. The purpose…
Originally published on 1 Feb 2024, The New Lede, re-published by The Defender Babies can suffer severe health problems when consuming nitrates in drinking water, and a growing body of literature indicates potential associations — including an increased risk of cancer — with toxic runoff from industrial agriculture operations. When directors of the public water…
On Feb 4, 2020 – AstraZeneca and other pharma companies participating in the DOD Pandemic Preparedness consortium received a phone call from the DOD saying that “novel covid virus posed national security threat”. This explains why PREP Act declaration in the US was made retroactive to Feb 4. The US Government organized itself for war,…
After the farmer protests in Brussels last week, European Commission leaders announced concessions to lighten the burden of greenhouse gas reductions on growers, but held the course with plans to cut 90% of emissions by 2040. Following the protests in Brussels last week by farmers from across the European Union (EU), the European Commission offered some concessions…
Using AI for Clinical Trials Five years ago the British Government announced a collaboration with the then little talked about World Economic Forum to research innovative methods of regulation. It is not exactly clear what administrative or financial role the WEF play in this project but in practice the UK Department of Business awards bursaries…
As major news outlets linked reports of measles cases in the U.S. and U.K. to declining vaccine rates, experts told The Defender that case numbers in the U.S. have been extremely low for decades and the very minor variations in vaccination rates do not make a difference. Measles outbreaks are in the news again In…
Upside Foods, a leader in the fake meat market, has failed to scale up its production to produce meaningful amounts of synthetic meat. Meanwhile, the company has been plagued with contamination issues, including rodent DNA found in one of its chicken cell lines and samples that contained 20 times more lead than conventional ground chicken….
Researchers found that vaccines that do not contain a live or weakened pathogen, while effective against the targeted infection, may also raise the risk of non-targeted infections, particularly in girls. The authors of a preprint review found “compelling evidence” that non-specific effects (NSEs) to the immune system that occur after vaccination may raise the risk of infection…
