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A woman was told she was dying. The list of conditions she had been diagnosed with was long, the doctors were out of answers, and conventional medicine had nothing left to offer. Over the course of a year using homeopathy, she became symptom free. Her doctor noticed before she even said anything. "What are you taking? What are you doing? You're way, way better." The conversation about whether this medicine works is long overdue. The prevailing dismissal, that it is just water, just placebo, just sugar pills, runs directly into a body of research that says otherwise and patients whose recoveries are difficult to explain away. Del sits down with Gabrielle Traub, founder of World Homeopathy Awareness Week and one of the leading voices making the case that this is not fringe medicine. It is the medicine many people have been waiting for. You can see the film here: introducinghomeopathy.com/en/

When a federal judge blocked changes to the ACIP committee and threw the panel into disarray, @ICANdecide lead attorney @AaronSiriSG sent a letter to Secretary Kennedy the same week urging him to amend the charter directly. He did it within days. The changes to the new charter are significant. The old version limited membership to experts in vaccination and vaccination policy. The new version opens the door to toxicologists, pediatric neurodevelopment specialists, and experts in recovery from serious vaccine injuries. The word safety now appears significantly more times than in the original charter, and the new language explicitly calls for examining gaps in vaccine safety research and adverse effects following vaccination. Most people assumed that kind of expertise was already in the room. It wasn't. And now that it is being added, the committee that recommends vaccines for every child in America will look fundamentally different at its next meeting. All eyes are on what comes next.

A toxicologist who studies how poisons enter cells and cause cancer, chronic disease, and neurological damage reviewed the scientific literature on glyphosate herself. Her conclusion was unambiguous: it is a carcinogen, it damages DNA, and the evidence linking it to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in people exposed to Roundup is substantial. Alexandra Munoz will be at the People vs. Poison rally on April 27th on the steps of the Supreme Court, along with a full day of speakers making the case that this information has been suppressed by Monsanto for decades and that the American people deserve to hear the truth. April 27th. Washington DC - be there bit.ly/PeoplevsPoison

🚨 The time is NOW. Join us at The People vs. Poison Rally on April 27, 2026 in Washington, D.C. - because we deserve to know what's in our food and we're done staying silent. 💪 Head to @thefoodbabe and sign up at thepeoplevspoison.org to get all the details and secure your spot. See you there! 🙌 Watch full episode 471 at TheHighWire.com

The FAA has a staffing crisis, a worsening safety record, and a new solution: recruit video gamers. When the application window opened at midnight on April 17, 6,000 applications came in within seven hours. The Department of Transportation called it a success. Successful at what, exactly? The FAA does not hire trained air traffic controllers. It hires candidates and then puts them through a process that takes up to six years, with a final certification rate of roughly 2%. Recruiting has never been the core problem. The bottleneck is everything that comes after the application, and none of that has changed. Read the full editorial by @ChelleWards and @tracybeanz bit.ly/Training-for-t…

A new review published in the Annals of Research in Oncology makes a pointed argument: the American healthcare system is spending billions chasing cancer treatments while largely ignoring what is actually causing it. The authors identify the primary drivers of cancer as: 🔹 Ultraprocessed food, environmental toxins, disrupted microbiomes, chronic stress, and metabolic dysfunction 🔹 A 15-fold increase in glyphosate use between 1994 and 2014, linked to Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 🔹 Hormonal birth control, associated with a 20% higher risk of breast cancer 🔹 Antibiotic exposure, associated with a 37% increased cancer risk 🔹 Poor sleep, indoor air quality, flame retardants in furniture, and beauty products, all carrying documented cancer associations On the other side of that equation, individuals with a combined healthy lifestyle including diet, exercise, and sleep show a 71% reduced risk across all cancers. The full review goes much deeper. Read and share! Article by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/Oncology_resea…

Researchers have found that every 10% increase in ultraprocessed food calorie intake during pregnancy is linked to an 11% higher risk of preterm birth and a 5% higher risk of high blood pressure disorders including preeclampsia, which are the leading causes of death and serious illness for mothers and newborns in the United States. For decades, the government's own food pyramid was directing pregnant women toward the very foods now linked to these outcomes. Every administration in recent memory looked the other way while these dietary guidelines shaped what millions of American mothers ate during the most critical window of fetal development. These findings should be at the center of every conversation about maternal and infant health in this country.

What gets labeled "weird" in medicine depends entirely on who is doing the labeling. Gabrielle Traub, founder of World Homeopathy Awareness Week, makes the point beautifully. She finds it strange to give antibiotics to a child with a fever when the fever itself is the body's most powerful tool for fighting infection. She finds it strange to prescribe cortisone to suppress the immune system, or antidepressants when exercise has been shown to work just as well. The framing of what is normal and what is fringe has been shaped by the same moneyed interests that built their way into licensing bodies, advocacy groups, and the AMA itself. Homeopathy is not a fringe practice. Millions of Americans use it, and that community has a voice that is growing louder as more people start questioning the systems that told them what medicine was supposed to look like…

Bayer and Monsanto are facing over 170,000 cancer lawsuits worth $16 billion, and instead of accepting accountability, they are asking the Supreme Court to shield them from liability entirely. On April 27th, people are marching on the Supreme Court steps in Washington DC to make one thing clear: no company gets to poison families and then buy its way out of the consequences. Equal justice under the law means chemical companies answer for the harm they cause, the same as everyone else. People vs. Poison. April 27th. Washington DC. Details and speaker lineup at bit.ly/PeoplevsPoison

The White House signed an Executive Order directing the acceleration of psychedelic therapy research and approvals, and the FDA is fast-tracking review timelines for specific substances that have shown promise in clinical studies for depression, PTSD, and addiction. This is a significant development. The research on these plant medicines was not shut down because the science failed. It was shut down because of Nixon's War on Drugs, which his own aide John Ehrlichman later admitted was designed as a political weapon against the administration's enemies. Fifty years of stunted research followed, during which suicide rates climbed 37% and the pharmaceutical tools offered in place of these therapies came with dangerous side effects and overinflated efficacy claims. More than 6,000 veterans die by suicide every year. Millions of Americans with depression, PTSD, and addiction do not respond to existing treatments. The evidence from plant medicine research, including studies on ayahuasca retreats showing significant reductions in depression and anxiety, has been building for years outside the reach of the conventional system. The door that just opened is a long time coming. Full editorial by @JeffereyJaxen linked below 👇 bit.ly/psychedelic-th…

A new study has identified a likely mechanism by which PFAS exposure during pregnancy causes birth defects including cleft lip, cleft palate, and craniosynostosis, a condition where a baby's skull bones fuse too early and cause the skull to elongate. The research points to PFDA, a specific type of forever chemical, disrupting the vitamin A metabolic pathway in the developing fetus through a process called CYP26A1 regulation. The researchers describe the consequences as likely irreversible for the vulnerable fetus and newborn. This is a significant finding. Parents have been asking for years why these birth defects are happening, and a study pointing directly to a chemical mechanism involving one of the most pervasive substance families in the modern environment should be on the front page of every news organization in the country. It is not.

For the first time, more Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it. A poll of 3,851 US adults conducted by Public First found that a plurality of Americans question vaccine safety, support reducing the number of vaccines administered, and believe that the right to decide what goes into your own body outweighs the goal of preventing disease transmission. This is the actual state of public opinion, and it matters because politicians have been quietly telling each other that vaccines are too hot to touch heading into the midterms. The data says the American public is already there. The mainstream is catching up to what people have been saying in private for years, and anyone reading the room honestly cannot ignore it anymore.

The mainstream news coverage of measles outbreaks follows a familiar pattern. A handful of cases, a doctor warning about declining vaccination rates, and an immediate recommendation to get two doses of the MMR vaccine, which happens to be 97% effective. It reads like a pharmaceutical ad because, as Del points out, it functionally is one. Understand the actual history of the measles vaccine program. The goal was never just personal protection. The goal set in the 1960s was eradication, the complete elimination of measles from the planet. That program has failed by its own stated measure, and virologists and immunologists warned at the time that pushing hard against such a contagious and historically mild virus carried its own risks. Sound familiar? When seven cases of a rash in one state and eleven in another become a national news emergency, and the answer is always the same product from the same industry that funds 70% of those news stations' advertising, the question becomes who benefits from the framing?

A woman in Colorado was allegedly coerced into assisted suicide after being diagnosed with "terminal anorexia." We reported on that story last October, and it was not an isolated incident. The number of Colorado patients approved for assisted suicide with severe malnutrition as the primary condition grew from one person in 2021 to eighteen in 2024. New York just became the 13th state to legalize the practice, and Canadians who have watched their own program expand are already warning what comes next. In Canada, assisted suicide now accounts for 5% of all deaths nationally, and eligibility is set to expand to people with solely a mental illness in 2027. Meanwhile, in Oregon, 40% of patients seeking lethal prescriptions list being a burden on family as a concern, and the average time between a first request and death has been cut nearly in half over the last two years. These programs are framed around dignity and autonomy. The data coming out of the states and countries that have had them the longest raises serious questions about whether that is what vulnerable people are actually receiving. Read more in this article by @smiddendorp22 👇 bit.ly/Assisted_Suici…

If you have been waiting for a room full of people who refuse to back down, Dallas on May 2nd is where they will be. Freedom Summit is a one-day event built around health freedom, faith, and taking radical responsibility for your family's future. The speaker lineup includes Del Bigtree, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Lance Wallnau, and more, covering everything from what is happening inside Big Pharma to the fertility crisis to warnings arriving from the UK about what religious freedom erosion looks like in practice. Join us: dallas.wellnessmyway.org/home

Vani Hari has been harassed at speaking engagements, doxed in a corporate database, had her Wikipedia page taken over, and watched as hired experts were deployed against her in the press for years. Monsanto Bayer did all of it to protect a product she says they know causes cancer. We are done being quiet about it, and on April 27th we are bringing thousands of people to the steps of the Supreme Court to say so out loud. The People vs. Poison rally is happening as the Supreme Court considers whether to shield Monsanto Bayer from the very lawsuits they have been losing, and as the EPA prepares its glyphosate review later this year. The American people deserve a straight answer from their government on whether this product causes cancer. The science already exists. The truth is already known. The rally is the demand that it finally be told. Speakers will go all day on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington DC. Find the full lineup and details at bit.ly/PeoplevsPoison. April 27th. Be there. 👇 bit.ly/PeoplevsPoison

🚨EXCLUSIVE: If you have a dog and your vet has recommended the Nobivac NXT canine flu vaccine, read this before your next appointment. Over 1,000 pages of adverse event reports were obtained from the USDA through a FOIA request. They cover Nobivac NXT H3N2, the first self-amplifying RNA vaccine widely used on pets in the United States. The data covers September 2024 through July 2025 and documents 296 cases listing the vaccine as a suspect product, including deaths, neurological events, anaphylaxis, collapse, and injection-site masses. A 4-year-old golden retriever went into cardiac arrest and died ten minutes after receiving the shot. A 7-year-old Yorkshire Terrier collapsed seventy minutes after vaccination and could not be saved. Self-amplifying RNA works differently from traditional vaccines. The RNA replicates itself inside the body to produce a sustained immune response, and researchers as recently as April 2025 have written that the mechanisms involved are not fully understood and warrant further investigation. The USDA approved this vaccine in June 2024. Portions of the pre-approval safety trial data have been withheld as confidential commercial information provided by Merck. Read this entire column and share it with your friends. Full article by @smiddendorp22 linked below 👇 bit.ly/Dog_Vaccine_AE

This exchange captures exactly what the informed consent debate is really about. Babies are not at meaningful risk of hepatitis B unless their mother is infected, and all mothers are tested before delivery. For those who test positive, the vaccine remains recommended. For everyone else, it is still available, still covered by insurance, and the decision belongs to the parents. What Kennedy also said is that the hepatitis B vaccine was never safety tested against a true placebo. The pre-licensure trial ran four days. Parents who want to ask what the risk profile actually is have never had a real answer, because the science was never done to provide one. Giving them the ability to make that assessment themselves is not an attack on a community. It is what informed consent looks like in practice.

The average American now has a teaspoonful of microplastics in their brain. That figure represents almost 1% of total brain volume, and it has doubled over the past five years. Secretary Kennedy called it an existential crisis at a recent HHS hearing, and announced $140 million going into the STOMP program to track microplastics, identify which compounds are toxic, and trace the pathways by which they reach the brain. HHS is also moving to add both microplastics and PFAS to the Maximum Contaminant Level list under the Safe Drinking Water Act, which would allow the government to establish enforceable limits and begin regulating them in drinking water for the first time. Full clip linked below 👇

Nearly 32 million Americans got their first COVID shot and never came back for the second one. @ICANdecide pressed the CDC again this week to explain why. People lined up eagerly for these vaccines while the media was telling them the shots wouldn't work without that second dose. Something made them stop. The CDC has never answered what it was. This is how @ICANdecide works. Ask the question nobody is asking, follow the evidence, and use what is uncovered to win in court. ICAN has beaten the FDA, NIH, CDC, and HHS. ICAN has won informed consent rights in Mississippi. ICAN restored religious exemptions in West Virginia. Every one of those wins was built on the back of persistent, unglamorous legal work funded by people who decided it mattered. If that work matters to you, $26 a month makes you part of it. Hit donate to ICAN at bit.ly/DONATEICAN.