Transit Workers Denied Religious Exemptions for COVID-19 Shots Each Awarded $1.3 Million
Half a dozen transit workers in the California Bay area who were fired for refusing to take COVID-19 shots were awarded approximately $1.3 million dollars each by a federal jury.1 The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) employees filed a class action suit in October 2022 after they were denied religious exemptions and or accommodations when […]
Idaho Health Department Bans Giving COVID-19 Shots
In Idaho, the Southwest District’s Board of Health has voted to prohibit COVID-19 shots from being administered in its medical facilities, a regional public health department in Idaho, has been prohibited from administering COVID shots to residents in six counties along the Idaho-Oregon border.1 The regional public health department serves Adams, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette […]
Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Billions of Dollars to Influence Medical Journal Reviewers
More than half of peer reviewers for four of the top medical journals received $1.06 billion in payments from the pharmaceutical industry during 2020-2022 alone, according to a research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The payments went to peer reviewers for four of the leading scientific journals—JAMA, the British […]
Settlement Reached in Navy COVID Vaccine Lawsuit
They refused to comply with the Navy’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Then came the lawsuit, sailors arguing the Navy violated their First Amendment rights by ignoring sincerely held religious beliefs. Now, a settlement has been reached. The case began with 35 members of the special warfare community and was eventually expanded into a class action suit […]
Pfizer Sued as Study Shows Depo-Provera Birth Control Drug May Cause Brain Tumors
According to a California lawsuit, Depo-Provera, a birth control injection may cause or substantially contribute to brain tumors. Kristen Schmidt has filed a lawsuit alleging that Pfizer, Viatris, Greenstone, Prasco Labs and Pharmacia and Upjohn (“Pfizer et al.”) failed to warn consumers that its Depo-Provera contraception and endometriosis medication may cause or substantially contribute to […]
Protestors Target Kellogg’s Over Cereal Dyes
It has been nearly a decade since the cereal brand giant Kellogg’s announced that it would remove artificial colors and ingredients from its cereals and other food products by the year 2018. Last month, more than a thousand people1 gathered outside of Kellogg’s headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan to deliver petitions with over 400,000 signatures […]