Children's Health Defense: From a $13,000 Mercury Group to Rocco Galati's Toronto Office

How a minor thimerosal-autism outfit became Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s $23-million anti-vaccine machine — and how its Canadian chapter was built around one Toronto lawyer.

Part 1 — The American origins

A mercury group nobody had heard of

CHD did not begin as Kennedy's creation, whatever its later branding says. It was founded as the World Mercury Project in 2007 by activist Eric Gladen, whose 2014 film Trace Amounts pushed the thimerosal-causes-autism story. Under Gladen the group stayed small: annual revenue was about $13,000 in 2014.

Even the founding date is muddled. Wikipedia gives 2007; the Washington Examiner describes Kennedy as a 2016 co-founder; POLITICO's reporting gave 2011. The organization's US tax number (EIN 26-0388604) is the same one CHD still files under today, and its IRS ruling year is 2007, which settles the older origin. CHD's later habit of crediting Kennedy as "founder" is a rebranding, not history.

Kennedy arrives and the money follows

Kennedy had been pushing the thimerosal story since 2005, when his "Deadly Immunity" article ran in Rolling Stone and Salon (Salon later withdrew it). When he joined the World Mercury Project's board in 2015, revenue jumped from $13,000 to $470,000 in a single year. Nurse practitioner Lyn Redwood, a long-time thimerosal-autism activist, served as the group's president in 2016.

The 2018 relaunch

On 13 September 2018 the World Mercury Project relaunched as Children's Health Defense, with the same staff and the same board, and Kennedy as chairman. The press release went out over PR Newswire with Laura Bono as contact. The new name was the important change. "Mercury" tied the group to one discredited theory. "Children's health" let it campaign against any vaccine, fluoride, 5G, pesticides or public-health measure, all under a protective-sounding banner.

Ads, Samoa and the pandemic windfall

Within months, researchers found CHD was one of the two biggest buyers of anti-vaccine Facebook advertising in December 2018 and February 2019. In 2019 came Samoa (see our Samoa page), and an unsuccessful CHD lawsuit against New York's school vaccine requirements during that state's measles outbreak.

Even before COVID, CHD was mainly a litigation shop. On its 2019 Form 990, as summarized by Charity Navigator, its largest program was litigation at $766,923, or 46% of program spending. Education and outreach came next at $553,740 (33%), then "research" at $312,647 (19%). The research consisted largely of members' stories about their children's health.

COVID-19 turned a niche group into a large business. Revenue more than doubled in 2020 and 2021 and hit $23.5 million in 2022, according to tax filings reported by NPR. CHD's president Mary Holland told NPR that during the COVID years "litigation was central." By late 2024 the group had filed more than 30 lawsuits against vaccines and public-health mandates. It also now runs an online TV network, a book publisher and a film studio.

Kennedy's pay

Kennedy described his CHD work as unpaid. The tax filings say otherwise: $131,000 in 2017, $345,561 in 2020, roughly $500,000 a year in 2021 and 2022, and $836,571 gross in 2022 once he corrected his own financial disclosure, which had used net instead of gross pay. The year-by-year record from CHD's own IRS filings is below.

The money, year by year

Figures are US dollars from CHD's Form 990 returns (EIN 26-0388604) as compiled by ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer. The 2014 figure is from published reporting, because no detailed return was filed that year. *The 2017 figure is the total reported executive compensation. Kennedy's 2022 gross figure comes from his own amended financial disclosure, which had first reported net pay. For his law-firm referral income, see our Samoa and money page.

Platforms push back, courts side with platforms

CHD sued Facebook's owner, Meta, in August 2020, along with the fact-checkers Poynter (PolitiFact) and Science Feedback. Meta removed CHD's Facebook and Instagram accounts in August 2022. On 9 August 2024 the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of the suit, holding that Meta, as a private company, could decline to host the group's vaccine claims. The US Supreme Court refused to hear CHD's appeal on 30 June 2025.

From CHD chairman to US Health Secretary

Kennedy went on leave from CHD in April 2023 to run for president, and Mary Holland took over as chief executive. CHD's revenue fell by more than 30% in 2023, to about $16 million, while its salary spending rose from $5.6 million to $9.8 million. Holland also went on leave to direct volunteers for Kennedy's campaign, and a pro-Kennedy super PAC was run by donors and current or former CHD staff. Kennedy became US Secretary of Health and Human Services on 13 February 2025.

The ties didn't end there. During the 2025 Texas measles outbreak, CHD staff obtained an exclusive on-camera interview with the parents of an unvaccinated child who had died of measles. In July 2025 CHD said it was funding a lawsuit against Kennedy himself, filed by its outside counsel Ray Flores, for failing to set up the "safer childhood vaccines" task force required by the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act. Law professor Dorit Reiss called the suit performative, a way of giving Kennedy cover. In September 2026 Kennedy gave the keynote at CHD's Washington conference (see our audit of that speech).

Part 2 — CHD Canada and Rocco Galati

Before there was a chapter

The domain childrenshealthdefense.ca was registered anonymously on 30 April 2019. By October 2020 a "Children's Health Defense Canada" Telegram channel was promoting a 5 October 2020 "Special Event Roundtable" with British conspiracy theorist David Icke as special guest and Galati, described as attorney for Vaccine Choice Canada, as co-host. Others on the bill included Chris Sky and the anti-mask group Hugs Over Masks.

Eleven days later, on 16 October 2020, an Ontario not-for-profit called "Children's Health Defence Canada" (Ontario corporation 5038665) was incorporated. The federal not-for-profit, Children's Health Defense Canada / Défense de la santé des enfants Canada (corporation 1295112-6), followed on 22 April 2021. Its Articles of Incorporation (Form 4001) name a single incorporator, Christine Colebeck, who later became the chapter's president.

The founding filing that came with the articles (Form 4002, Initial Registered Office Address and First Board of Directors) is the key document. It names four first directors: Christine Colebeck, Richard Colebeck, Rocco Galati and Brian Burrowes. Every one of them gave 1062 College Street, Toronto ON M6H 1A9 as their address, the office of Galati's law firm and his Constitutional Rights Centre. The registered office itself was first listed at a private address in Woodstock, Ontario.

One clause in those articles shows who controls the brand. As long as the Canadian corporation's name includes "Children's Health Defense" or "CHD," the US Children's Health Defense, described in the articles as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, can change the Canadian corporation's name on its own. The Canadian board runs the chapter, but the American parent keeps a veto over its identity.

Galati joins the board and files the first case

Galati was on the board from the day the federal corporation was born. On 20 April 2021, two days before the federal corporation existed, CHD Canada, a teachers' group called Educators for Human Rights, three teachers and seventeen children (through their parents) filed a Notice of Application against Ontario, several school boards and public-health officers over school closures, masking and COVID measures (Ontario Superior Court file CV-21-00661284-0000). Galati's Constitutional Rights Centre put out the press release.

CHD Canada says the Attorney General's motion to dismiss failed on 27 May 2021, when a judge found the case was not frivolous and needed a full record. That is a procedural ruling, not a win on the merits. The case never reached a merits ruling: when schools reopened and mask rules ended in September 2021, CHD Canada stopped pursuing it.

For its 5 August 2021 "Experts LIVE" event on the rights of Ontario school children, CHD Canada's website introduced Galati as its "number one CHDC lawyer." The same page (captured 18 August 2021) billed his Constitutional Rights Centre colleague Amina Sherazee, Quebec lawyer Dominic Desjarlais, CHD USA's Mary Holland and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the event's lawyers. The professors listed were Byram Bridle (Guelph), Julie Ponesse (Western) and Waterloo's own Michael Palmer. That listing was not the first time the two shared a stage. On 5 January 2021 the two had appeared on the same livestream panel, Sacha Stone's "Focus on Fauci," with David Martin and Judy Mikovits; see "Who got the microphone" below.

The office address

The federal filings trace the address step by step:

• 22 April 2021 (Form 4002): all four founding directors, Galati among them, gave 1062 College Street, Toronto as their address. The registered office was a private address in Woodstock.
• 8 June 2021 (Form 4003, signed by Christine Colebeck): the registered office moved to 1062 College Street, Toronto, with Woodstock kept as an additional address.
• About August 2021 to January 2022: archived copies of the chapter's website contact page show the same Toronto address. By April 2022 the website had switched to a post-office box in Bellevue, Ontario, but the legal registered office stayed on College Street.
• 20 June 2023 (Form 4003): the same day Galati's resignation from the board took effect, the registered office moved to a rural address in Mossley, Ontario, where the directors are now listed.

So from June 2021 to June 2023, the Canadian chapter of Kennedy's organization was legally registered at its lawyer's office while that lawyer sat on its board, and it left that address the day he left the board. That is the plain public record. It doesn't by itself show who paid for what. The October 2020 Ontario incorporation documents, which would name that earlier entity's incorporators and first registered office, are a thread still to be pulled.

The university plan, and the $2,000 ask

Here in Waterloo Region, the CHD–Galati link surfaced on campus. In late July 2021 Galati tweeted that CHD Canada and the Constitutional Rights Centre were discussing a challenge to university and college COVID vaccine policies. On 26 August 2021, University of Waterloo chemistry professor Michael Palmer, MD, sent an open letter to UW's president, provost and other administrators demanding repeal of the mandate. The letter said CHD Canada, with Galati and his colleague Amina Sherazee, was preparing a lawsuit against all universities and colleges with such mandates, including UW, and invited readers to join.

About four days later CHD Canada hosted a Zoom meeting on the suit. An instruction memo told students to book a one-on-one meeting with Galati and to prepare to pay $2,000 to join, with possible exposure to another $2,000 if the case failed. CHD, the memo said, might use donations to help with fees.

We have found no record that this university suit was ever filed. UW fired Palmer in March 2022 for not complying with the mandate, the Waterloo Region Record reported.

The official launch came last

On 30 August 2021 CHD in Washington announced five new chapters: Oregon, Arizona, Ohio, Florida and Canada. By then the Canadian group already had a provincial corporation, a federal corporation, a board that included Galati, a lawsuit against Ontario, and his office address. The Canadian chapter wasn't started from Washington and later handed a lawyer. Its legal work came first.

Who got the microphone

A lawyer files cases. A movement also needs stages: livestreams, rallies, podcasts and "expert panels" where the claims can be made to a friendly crowd with no one there to answer them. The outlets in Galati's orbit supplied those stages. They were CHD Canada, his own Constitutional Rights Centre, and his clients Vaccine Choice Canada and Action4Canada. Below are the appearances we can document. Each row records who was put in front of an audience on which platform. It does not claim that every person listed endorses every claim made by the others.

Who was on the "Focus on Fauci" panel with Galati?

David E. Martin runs M·CAM, a firm that analyzes patents to estimate company value; FactCheck.org describes him as a financial analyst. USA Today notes he is credited with a PhD from the University of Virginia. He was the central figure of the August 2020 video Plandemic: Indoctornation. His main claims have been checked and found false:

• "The CDC's SARS patent proves the virus was engineered or the patent is illegal." The CDC filed in 2004 to keep the virus in the public domain, a common tactic called defensive patenting; the patent was granted in 2007 (USA Today; FactCheck.org).
• "Old patents prove COVID was planned." The patents he cites cover a canine coronavirus vaccine and a pig coronavirus vector, not SARS-CoV-2 (FactCheck.org, 2023).
• "mRNA shots are gene therapy, not vaccines." Infectious-disease specialists and CDC documents contradict this; mRNA does not enter the cell nucleus or alter DNA (Lead Stories, 2021; Health Feedback, 2022).
• "The WHO exempted itself from criminal prosecution." The text he showed is the standard UN immunities treaty that covers every specialized agency, not a WHO founding document (Africa Check, 2024).

Judy Mikovits is a former research scientist (PhD, George Washington University, 1991) and the only "expert" in the first Plandemic video (May 2020). Her record:

• The retracted paper. Her 2009 Science paper linked chronic fatigue syndrome to a mouse retrovirus, XMRV. Other labs could not replicate it, the samples turned out to be contaminated, and Science retracted the whole paper on 23 Dec 2011. XMRV is now regarded as a laboratory contaminant. In a later study designed to settle the question, Mikovits herself could not reproduce her result (Snopes; Vice).
• "Persecuted for a discovery." Plandemic leaves out that her employer, the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, fired her in September 2011, before the retraction, after a dispute over sharing a cell line (Snopes, 2020).
• "If you've had a flu shot, you were injected with coronaviruses." False. There are no coronaviruses in flu vaccines (PolitiFact; AFP).
• "Flu shots raise the odds of COVID-19 by 36%." The study she cited showed a correlation with seasonal coronaviruses, not SARS-CoV-2, and not causation (PolitiFact; AFP).
• "Masks activate the virus." Virologists could not even say what that means. Masks catch droplets (Live Science; Global News).
• "No vaccine for any RNA virus works." Measles, mumps, rubella, rabies, yellow fever and influenza are all RNA viruses, and all have working vaccines (Business Insider).
• On "Focus on Fauci" she called the mRNA shot "a synthetic pathogen" that can cause MS, ALS and Alzheimer's. mRNA never enters the cell nucleus and does not alter DNA (PolitiFact, 2021); no such causal link has been shown.

Sacha Stone, the British host, ran the livestream.

On the record: Nathan Phillips Square, 6 November 2021

Six months into his time as a CHD Canada director, Galati spoke for about six minutes at an anti-lockdown rally in front of Toronto City Hall. The video was posted on Rumble, and QuackeryWatch has a full transcript. The crowd heard:

• Bad arithmetic. He said "they" had spent $12 trillion on vaccination, which he called "$36 million a day for every day of the year since the day they crucified Jesus Christ." Spread over 2,000 years, $12 trillion works out to about $16 million a day. His own comparison was off by more than double.
• Invented numbers. He said only 12% to 15% of the world was vaccinated. Our World in Data figures for 8 November 2021, two days later, put the world at 51% with at least one dose and nearly 40% fully vaccinated. He put "vaccine hesitancy" in Ontario at 30% of all adults, at a time when Ontario was reporting well over 80% of eligible residents vaccinated.
• A stock line. "I am a conspiracy analyst, not a conspiracy theorist" was not improvised. He had used the same line in a livestream eight months earlier, on 28 February 2021.
• Name-calling as strategy. He refused to call the shots vaccines and described government leaders as "genocidal maniacs, psychopaths" acting for money.
• A call to police. He told officers "of conscience" to lay extortion charges over "get the jab or lose your job" policies, even though he expected prosecutors to withdraw them.
• Children as the target. Pointing to ice cream handed out to children at a vaccine clinic nearby, he told the crowd to answer the "conspiracy theorist" label by calling officials pedophiles: "Respond by saying they're pedophiles because that's what they are."
• Business update. He listed the cases under way: three doctors' cases, a challenge to the CPSO's "gag order" set for 8 December, federal workers organized by Police on Guard, Ontario health workers, and first responders organized by Take Action Canada. He noted that plaintiffs "in the hundreds" make it "affordable."

How it landed. Under the Rumble video, which had 351 "rumbles" when it was captured, one viewer summed up the reception: "He calls these politicians mother******s and pedophiles. I could not agree more."

This was the lawyer the Canadian chapter of Kennedy's organization had made a founding director, whose office was its legal address, and whom it had called its "number one" lawyer.

Platforms are listed under the names they used. Inclusion reflects a documented appearance or billing, not proof that any two people met in person. We will add rows as recordings and archives are verified.

Galati leaves the board; CHD Canada defends him

The filings show a quick board turnover in June 2023:

• 19 June 2023: annual members' meeting. Three new directors start: Jennifer Berman, Gerardo Diaz and Sharilynne Marie St Louis.
• 20 June 2023: a director-change form (Form 4006, signed by Christine Colebeck) records that Rocco Galati and Richard Colebeck are no longer directors as of that day. The registered office leaves 1062 College Street the same day. The 2023 annual return, filed that day, declares CHD Canada a soliciting corporation, meaning one that raises money from the public.
• 23 June 2023: Christine Colebeck herself steps off the board (Form 4006, received 25 June 2023). She returns on 2 May 2024, when St Louis leaves (Form 4006, received 6 May 2024, signed by Amanda Forbes).
• 21 June 2024: the next annual meeting. The 2024 annual return again declares a soliciting corporation.

Brian Burrowes is the only founding director still on the board. Galati's broader litigation record from this period is covered on our Mandate Cases and Action4Canada / Vaccine Choice Canada pages. It includes the Action4Canada claim that BC courts called "bad beyond argument," the struck federal-workers claim, the 2024 Dorceus dismissal with a large costs award, and Vaccine Choice Canada's June 2024 discontinuance of its own 2020 case.

On 13 February 2025 four former clients filed a proposed $6-million class action in Alberta against Galati and the Constitutional Rights Centre, alleging negligence across six COVID-era cases between 2020 and 2024. The allegations are unproven, and the class action has not been certified. CHD Canada responded with a public "Setting the Record Straight" statement signed by president Christine Colebeck. It said the plaintiffs had never been affiliated with CHD Canada, that it neither knew of nor consented to anyone claiming to act for its school case, and that Galati "has CHD Canada's full support." The statement carries two dates: 9 April 2024 in the body and 7 April 2025 in the page header.

Part 3 — Today's MMR "deaths" claim, and the bad math behind it

The current claim, circulated by CHD and others, comes largely from a VAERS write-up by authors linked to the McCullough Foundation. It counted 299 US VAERS death reports after MMR or MMRV vaccine. Of those, 193 had identifiable dates since 1995. It compared that 193 with the 7 documented US measles deaths over the same period and declared vaccine-associated deaths 2,657% higher. The same trick turned up earlier this year from Barbara Loe Fisher's National Vaccine Information Center.

• A VAERS report is not a vaccine death. Anyone can file one, with no proof of cause. VAERS itself warns its data can't establish that a vaccine caused anything.
• The denominator is missing. On a rough births-times-two-doses estimate, the US has given something like 240 million MMR doses since 1995. Toddlers die of SIDS, infections, accidents and congenital disease at the age they are vaccinated, so some deaths will follow vaccination by coincidence.
• The comparison is rigged. Measles deaths were low after 1995 because of the vaccine. Before it, roughly 400–500 American children died of measles every year. Using the vaccine's own success as the "measles" side of the ledger is circular.
• The mixing of time spans. NVIC's version piled up roughly 45 years of reports, including foreign ones, and compared them with a single year of US measles deaths.
• No confirmed deaths in healthy children. Investigated reports have not confirmed any death in a healthy child caused by measles vaccine.

The web: who connects to whom

The chart below draws only links we can document: a shared stage, a show, a filing or a corporate role. Canadian people and groups are on the left, the events that joined them in the middle, and the American and British figures on the right. The red lines trace the two occasions on which Galati and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were billed together.

Not shown, because we could not document them to our standard: an in-person meeting between Galati and Kennedy, any payments between CHD and CHD Canada, and David Martin's European and Canadian conference appearances. We will add links as they are verified.

Timeline

CA = CHD Canada / Galati events; US = US organization.

Sources

1. Corporations Canada filings, Children's Health Defense Canada (1295112-6): Certificate and Articles of Incorporation, Form 4001, and Initial Registered Office Address and First Board of Directors, Form 4002 (22 Apr 2021); Change of Registered Office Address, Form 4003 (received 8 Jun 2021 and 20 Jun 2023); Changes Regarding Directors, Form 4006 (received 20 Jun 2023, 25 Jun 2023, 2 May 2024 and 6 May 2024); Annual Returns, Form 4022 (2023 and 2024). Obtained by the author from Corporations Canada, January 2025.
2. Charity Navigator profile of Children's Health Defense, EIN 26-0388604 (IRS ruling year 2007; FY2019 program spending), captured March 2023.
3. CHD Canada, "Live" page for the 5 Aug 2021 Experts LIVE event, as captured 18 Aug 2021 (copy held by the author).
4. Constitutional Rights Centre, Media archive and "Prominent CRC-CDC Cases" (VCC Medical Choice Rally, 29 Oct 2019; VCC update with Ted Kuntz, 13 Jul 2022; Action4Canada interview, 20 Jul 2022); Action4Canada podcast description of Galati (Podbean).
5. Truth11.com, "Rocco Galati Speech (Transcript)", posted 21 Sep 2021.
6. "Focus on Fauci," livestream hosted by Sacha Stone, 5 Jan 2021 (Earth Heroes TV listing); Global Research, "Video: Focus on Fauci. 'This is Not A Vaccine'", 11 Jan 2021; BitChute re-post (bitchute.com/video/6LYagqLH5SGa), first published 24 Jul 2021; screen capture and transcript of the excerpt held by the author.
7. "Citizens Forum" interview with Rocco Galati, 16 Jul 2020; transcript prepared by the author.
8. The Hospital for Sick Children, "COVID-19: Recommendations for School Reopening", 17 Jun 2020; CTV News coverage of the same day.
9. Public Health Agency of Canada, seasonal influenza burden (about 3,500 deaths a year); Schanzer et al., PLoS ONE 2013, "Estimating Influenza Deaths in Canada, 1992–2009."
10. Rocco Galati, international livestream (reported as Sweden), 28 Feb 2021; transcript prepared by the author.
11. Forensic DNA cycle numbers: Promega, "Scientific Issues with Analysis of Low Amounts of DNA" (2010); Kloosterman & Kersbergen, Netherlands Forensic Institute, on 28-cycle standard and 34-cycle low-copy-number STR typing.
12. Constitutional Rights Centre video, "Some Common Questions Answered," 9 Mar 2021 (YouTube), and the same recording under the YouTube title "Your Rights to decline a Vaccine in the context of Employment," as shared on X on 17 Aug 2021 (screen capture held by the author); transcripts prepared by the author.
13. Video of Rocco Galati at the vaccine-mandate protest outside Toronto Police headquarters, 2 Sep 2021, recorded by Caryma Sa'd and reposted on X by @CrasTalk; screen capture and transcript of the surviving clip held by the author.
14. Rocco Galati speech at the Nathan Phillips Square anti-lockdown rally, Toronto, 6 Nov 2021, video posted on Rumble.com by Free Speech Media; transcript and screen capture of the Rumble page (with viewer comment) held by the author.
15. Our World in Data vaccination figures as of 8 Nov 2021, reproduced in ICAO's COVID-19 Vaccination Report of 9 Nov 2021 (worldwide: 51.09% at least one dose, 39.83% fully vaccinated).
16. Telegram archive of Vaccine Choice Canada / No More Lockdowns posts on the 18 Aug 2021 David Martin livestream.
17. Bright Light News, "Let The Science Speak | Drs Bridle & Strauss" ticket page.
18. Children's Health Defense transcripts: "TRUTH with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," Season 2, Episode 8 (David E. Martin) and Episode 19 (Judy Mikovits).
19. "Canada's Role in Producing the Weaponized 'COVID' Injections", David Martin on Vaccine Choice Canada, Aug 2021 (transcript as reposted online).
20. Wikipedia, "Children's Health Defense" (founding, Gladen, revenue 2014–15, 2018 rename).
21. PR Newswire, "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Announces The Launch of Children's Health Defense" (Sept. 2018); CHD author page for Lyn Redwood.
22. NPR / Connecticut Public, "Inside RFK Jr.'s nonprofit's legal battles over vaccines and public health", 4 Dec 2024.
23. NBC News, CHD tax filings and 2023 revenue drop, Dec 2024; ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, EIN 26-0388604 (Form 990 data, 2015–2024: revenue, expenses, assets and officer compensation).
24. Ninth Circuit, Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, No. 21-16210 (9 Aug 2024); Bloomberg Law, cert. denied 30 Jun 2025.
25. CNN (via KRDO) and Ars Technica, CHD-funded suit against Kennedy, July 2025; The 74, CHD and the Texas measles outbreak, 2025.
26. GlobeNewswire, "Children's Health Defense Launches Five New Chapters", 30 Aug 2021.
27. Constitutional Rights Centre press release, 4 May 2021 (CHD Canada school application).
28. CHD Canada, "Setting the Record Straight: CHD Canada Stands Behind Lawyer Rocco Galati"; CHD Canada "Live" page (5 Aug 2021 event).
29. White Rose Intelligence profiles of CHD Canada and Rocco Galati. These compile Ontario and federal corporate records, the WHOIS record, a federal Form 4006, and archived CHD Canada contact pages from Aug 2021, Jan 2022 and Apr 2022.
30. TGStat archive of the "Children's Health Defense Canada" Telegram channel (5 Oct 2020 roundtable).
31. Open letter to UW officials, 26 Aug 2021; Galati tweet on CHD Canada / CRC university challenge, July 2021.
32. Waterloo Region Record, Robert Williams, "University of Waterloo fires professor over vaccine mandate," 23 Mar 2022.
33. Castanet, federal-workers claim struck as "bad beyond argument," Feb 2023.
34. FactCheck.org, "New 'Plandemic' Video Peddles Misinformation, Conspiracies", Aug 2020; FactCheck.org SciCheck on Martin's 2023 Brussels talk.
35. USA Today, "Fact check: 'Plandemic II' alleges false conspiracy theory involving CDC, NIH; pandemic not planned," 25 Aug 2020.
36. Lead Stories, "COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT Illegally Called 'Vaccines'", Feb 2021; Health Feedback, review of Martin's mRNA claims, 2022.
37. Africa Check, "No 'founding document' gives WHO exemption from 'criminal prosecution'," 13 Aug 2024.
38. Snopes, "'Plandemic': Was Judy Mikovits Arrested Without a Warrant…?", 8 May 2020, and 2018 review; Vice, "'Plandemic' Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense," May 2020.
39. PolitiFact, "Fact-checking 'Plandemic'", 8 May 2020; FactCheck.org, "The Falsehoods of the 'Plandemic' Video", May 2020; AFP Fact Check, May 2020.
40. Live Science, "Debunking the most dangerous claims of 'Plandemic'"; Global News, "Viral 'Plandemic' clip pushes wild claims", May 2020; Business Insider, "A point-by-point debunk of the 'Plandemic' movie," May 2020.
41. PolitiFact, "Joe Rogan falsely says mRNA vaccines are 'gene therapy'", 31 Aug 2021.
42. Cosgrove et al., "Deaths Following MMR and MMRV Vaccination in the United States" (Zenodo, 2026); Voices for Vaccines and Tech ARP rebuttals; "Stop Anti-Vax Propaganda" on the NVIC MMR death claims.