Andy Wakefield has been likened to the Dreyfus of his generation -- a doctor falsely accused of scientific and medical misconduct, whose discoveries opened up entirely new perceptions of childhood autism, the gut-brain link, and vaccine safety. The price for his discoveries and his refusal to walk away from the issues they raised, was swift and brutal, with loss of job, career, reputation, honours, colleagues, and country. And yet he enjoys a huge and growing support from around the world.

Wakefield’s stance made him a trusted place for whistleblowers.  Wakefield is now an award-winning filmmaker. Despite elaborate attempts at censorship, his documentary VAXXED: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe – the revelations of a vaccine scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- changed the public mindset on the truth about vaccine safety. Wakefield’s story starts with professional trust in the instincts of mothers, choice and consequences, a quest for truth, and perseverance against overwhelming odds.

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Bobby Kennedy Jr. comes from an illustrious political family. The son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, Bobby Jr. was a lifelong Democrat but became increasingly estranged from the party in the 2010s as it drifted away from its traditional values. He made his final break on October 9, 2023, when he announced his candidacy as an independent for President of the United States. 

Bobby has spent nearly 40 years fighting corrupt corporations and government agencies. During his tenure at RiverKeeper, he successfully sued dozens of municipalities to force compliance with the Clean Water Act. He won cases against corporate giants too, including a suit against General Electric for toxic runoff from its corporate jet hangar and a court order against ExxonMobil mandating they clean up tens of millions of gallons of spilled oil in Brooklyn, NY.

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Barbara Loe Fisher is co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity she founded with parents of vaccine injured children in 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education. For the past four decades, she has led a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety and informed consent protections in public health policies and laws. She has researched, analyzed and publicly articulated the science, policy, law, ethics and politics of vaccination to become one of the world’s leading non-medical, consumer advocacy experts on vaccination and human rights.

Her 1985 book, DPT: A Shot in the Dark, which she co-authored with Harris Coulter, Ph.D., was the first major, well documented critique of America's mass vaccination system calling for safety reforms and the human right to informed consent to vaccination. She worked with Congress to secure vaccine safety provisions in the historic National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

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Brian S. Hooker, Ph.D., is senior director of science and research at Children's Health Defense and professor emeritus of biology at Simpson University in Redding, California. Hooker dedicated over 15 years as a bioengineer and the team leader for the High Throughput Biology Team and operations manager of the DOE Genomics: Genomes to Life Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He also managed applied plant and fungal molecular biology research projects at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where systems biology researchers are focused on understanding gene and protein networks involved in individual cell signaling, communication between cells in communities and cellular metabolic pathways.

In 2013 and 2014, Hooker worked with CDC whistleblower, Dr. William Thompson, to expose fraud and corruption within vaccine safety research in the CDC which led to the release of over 10,000 pages of documents.

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Mary Holland serves as President and General Counsel at CHD. Before joining CHD’s staff, Holland taught on the faculty at NYU School of Law for seventeen years and lectured at Columbia Law School on international human rights. She has co-authored or co-edited three books on vaccines, Vaccine Epidemic and The HPV Vaccine on Trial: Seeking Justice for a Generation Betrayed, and most recently Turtles All the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth.

On behalf of many organizations, she submitted amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, a case about manufacturer liability, and to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Cedillo v. HHS about vaccine-induced autism.

She appears weekly on CHD.TV’s podcast “This Week with Mary and Polly” for the week’s news in review.

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Del Matthew Bigtree is an American television and film producer. He produced the film Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, based on the findings of Andrew Wakefield and alleges a connection between vaccines and autism.

He briefly worked on Dr. Phil and was credited as a field producer for five episodes. After a gap of two years, he served on the production team of the medical talk show The Doctors for which he produced 30 episodes over five years.

It was while he was working as producer on the medical talk show The Doctors that Bigtree learned of Andrew Wakefield's opposition to the MMR vaccine and his claims that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hid proof of a link between vaccines and autism.  

Bigtree is the chief executive of the anti-vaccination group Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), host of The Highwire podcast and one of the most prominent voices in the anti-vaccination movement today.

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Dr. Peter A. McCullough is an internist and cardiologist in academic practice in Dallas, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and then completed his medical degree as an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. In addition, he completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, cardiology fellowship including service as Chief Fellow at William Beaumont Hospital, and master’s degree in public health at the University of Michigan.

Dr. McCullough has broadly published on a range of topics in medicine with over 1000 publications and 660 citations in the National Library of Medicine. Dr. McCullough is a recipient of the Simon Dack Award from the American College of Cardiology for his scholarship and research. His works have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, British Medical Journal, and other top-tier journals worldwide.

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Dr. Robert W. Malone is an internationally recognized scientist, physician, author and political commentator. He is the original inventor of mRNA vaccination and DNA vaccination as technology platforms, and holds numerous fundamental domestic and foreign patents. He has over 14,000 citations for his work. Dr. Malone has been a thought leader during the COVID era, including bringing attention to the faulty testing and the significant numbers of adverse events associated with the mRNA vaccines and regulatory capture by the FDA. He has testified against censorship, COVID mandates and for access to early treatment across the world.

Dr. Malone is president of the Malone Institute, whose mission is to bring back integrity to government, the biological sciences and medicine. Dr. Malone's substack, "Who is Robert Malone" has 315,000 subscribers and he is featured on many TV broadcasts, podcasts and documentaries. His best selling book is called "Lies My Gov't Told Me: And the Better Future Coming".

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Dr. Joseph Mercola founded Mercola.com in 1997 as a portal for up-to-date natural health information.

Mercola.com strives to expose corporate, government and mass media hype that diverts people from what is truly best for their health. It serves as a harmonious community for educated and open-minded individuals who belong to a variety of populations — from homemakers to health care experts — all seeking to improve and maintain their state of health and determined to change the modern health paradigm.

Dr. Mercola’s tireless efforts to disseminate important health information has earned him numerous awards and honors.

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Pierre Kory is the former Chief of the Critical Care Service and Medical Director of the Trauma and Life Support Center at the University of Wisconsin. He is considered one of the world pioneers in the use of ultrasound by physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. He helped develop and run the first national courses in Critical Care Ultrasonography in the U.S., and served as a Director of these courses with the American College of Chest Physicians for several years. He has led over 100 courses nationally and internationally, teaching physicians this now-standard skill in his specialty.

Dr. Kory was also one of the U.S. pioneers in the research, development, and teaching of performing therapeutic hypothermia to treat post-cardiac arrest patients. In 2005, his hospital was the first in New York City to begin regularly treating patients with therapeutic hypothermia.

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