Merck Settles Gardasil Vaccine Injury Lawsuit for $50 Million
Merck & Co has agreed to pay 50 million dollars to settle more than 200 lawsuits brought against the drug giant by patients suffering from autoimmune disorders after receiving the Gardasil vaccine. According Merck, this settlement resolves all but one of the pending lawsuits filed against its HPV vaccine.1 Gardasil was fast-tracked to licensure by […]
CDC Looking to Break Up MMR Vaccine?
On Oct. 6, 2025, the acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Jim O’Neill, called on the manufacturers of the live attenuated MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine to break up the biologic and develop separate shots for the three diseases it targets. “I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe […]
Withheld: Real-World Infant Deaths from RSV Antibody Shot
As ACIP deliberated without access to full trial data, an even more alarming pattern was already unfolding in the real world. Now, analysis of the FDA’s FAERS database reveals 37 infant deaths out of just 991 reports—a fatality signal nearly twice that of other routine vaccines. Why was this not disclosed? The warning sign was […]
Disturbing Secrets about Vaccines
The vaccine area is much more complicated than I knew when I worked at a department of infectious diseases as a young doctor. I didn’t perceive vaccines could be a problem and had taken all the recommended ones. My 2013 book, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime, hardly mentions vaccines at all because none of the major […]
CDC Committee No Longer Recommends MMRV Vaccine for Children Under Four
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met on Sept. 18-19, 2025 to review recommendations on childhood vaccines, including the combined live virus measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) shot, marketed under the brand name ProQuad®. In a notable shift, the panel voted not to recommend the […]
The Battle Over Injecting Hepatitis B Vaccine Into Babies on the First Day After Birth
Last week, a very public battle over the wisdom of the at-birth hepatitis B vaccination policy started playing out at a Sept. 18-19, 2025 meeting of U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) when a majority of the newly appointed members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)1 went head to head with pharmaceutical […]