Children's Health Defense Files RICO Lawsuit Against American Academy of Pediatrics Over Vaccine Schedule
Overview of the Landmark Lawsuit
The Children's Health Defense has filed one of the most aggressive medical accountability lawsuits in decades, drawing direct comparisons to the historic tobacco industry litigation. This RICO lawsuit targets the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), accusing them of systematically misleading parents about vaccine safety. This action builds on growing concerns about vaccine-related risks, much like the debate surrounding the COVID-19 Vaccine Dangers: The Plan for One World Government Revealed.
Key Legal Claims
- Untested Vaccine Schedule: The lawsuit argues that the full childhood vaccine schedule has never been properly safety tested in combination
- Fraudulent Statements: AAP is accused of knowingly lying about vaccine safety, substituting theory for evidence
- Financial Kickbacks: Pediatricians face pressure to meet 90% vaccination thresholds to receive bonuses, creating perverse incentives
- Suppressed Evidence: Similar to the Tobacco Research Institute, AAP is alleged to function as a front organization for the pharmaceutical industry
Critical Arguments Made in the Interview
The Safety Testing Gap
Mary Holland emphasizes that the Institute of Medicine (the highest medical authority in the country) told AAP in 2002 and 2013 that they cannot claim the schedule is safe without comparing vaccinated vs. unvaccinated outcomes, which has never been done. This lack of comparative safety data is reminiscent of the regulatory challenges faced in other medical fields, such as those outlined in the Overview of the European Union Regulatory Framework for Clinical Trials.
Financial Incentives Driving Medical Decisions
- Pediatricians must vaccinate 90%+ of their practice to receive bonuses
- Parents who question the schedule risk being kicked out of practices
- Vaccine manufacturers profit twice: first from vaccines, then from medications treating vaccine-related chronic conditions
Media and Industry Influence
- 70% of television and print advertising revenue comes from pharmaceutical companies
- The pharmaceutical industry has two lobbyists for every member of Congress
- Vaccines receive unique liability protection not afforded to other drugs
Texas Attorney General Investigation
Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into the childhood vaccine schedule, focusing specifically on financial kickbacks. He has issued 20 subpoena-like requests for documents related to these practices.
Comparison to Tobacco Litigation
The lawsuit draws strong parallels to successful RICO cases against tobacco companies, arguing that:
- Both industries knowingly suppressed safety information
- Both used front organizations to create scientific credibility
- The vaccine case may be stronger because it involves children
What This Means for Parents
The discovery process could reveal:
- Internal communications about vaccine safety concerns
- Evidence of suppressed data
- Documentation of financial incentive structures
- Information that could transform pediatric medical practices
Furthermore, this case echoes efforts to improve transparency in pediatric healthcare, similar to the goals outlined in the Comprehensive Guide to Acute Diarrheal Disorders in Children which emphasizes evidence-based care and informed parental decision-making.
For those concerned about the broader implications of vaccine mandates and public health policy, this lawsuit also aligns with discussions on Understanding Community Health and Health Equity: Insights from Keely Gallagher, highlighting how systemic pressures can affect community health outcomes.
Well, the Children's Health Defense has filed one of the most aggressive medical accountability lawsuits in decades.
They're comparing it to lawsuits against the tobacco industry. What we are litigating here is the childhood vaccine
schedule. This is a RICO lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics, accusing them of systematically
misleading parents, suppressing safety science, and enforcing an untested childhood vaccine schedule through
professional coercion and financial incentives. Here's the lawsuit if you'd like to read it for yourself. Now, the
case does not argue whether vaccines work. It argues something much more explosive that the full vaccine schedule
has never been properly safety tested. It's true. That is true. You cannot argue that it has. It's undeniable that
those vaccines as they are given in combination and the schedule and the ages at which they are administered has
never been tested full stop. I don't see how you could argue that that's true. Uh a lot of those also have never been
given a full placebo test each vaccine. um not all of them offer herd immunity such as tetanus, but parents are not
given that distinction. So, this is not a scientific argument. It's a factual one. And here are some of the major
claims of the lawsuit. They claim that the AAP substituted theory for evidence when they said that theoretically
infants could respond to 10,000 vaccines at once. That's how they're promoting this safety. That pediatricians are
pressured to comply or lose their careers. that parents who question this are misled and sometimes criminalized.
Uh there's that this is a financial ecosystem that rewards compliance. And again, they're drawing parallels to
other RICO cases such as the one against the tobacco companies arguing that AAP has similarly suppressed evidence. So
joining us to discuss is the CEO of the Children's Health Defense, Mary Holland. She joins us to discuss this bombshell
move. Uh boss move, Mary. How did you decide to do this? You're you're really taking on a behemoth.
>> Well, um, we really think there's very serious problems with the American Academy of Pediatrics, especially right
now because you know that 19 states are saying they're going to follow the American Academy of Pediatrics instead
of the Centers for Disease Control. So, this is a very timely and important question. And the sad reality is that
the AAP knows that the schedule has never been properly tested. The Institute of Medicine, the highest
medical authority in the country, has told them in 2002 and 2013, you can't say this. You actually have to compare
unvaccinated and vaccinated outcomes, which they've never done. So, they've been knowingly lying to people, to
parents in particular, for decades that they're safe and effective. it's been perfectly well tested and you should
just shut up and get your shots. >> The thing that makes me so crazy is when you watch this on the news on the
mainstream media, they treat vaccines as a protective class, as a monolith, as if that, and you and I both know that some
vaccines have better safety records than others. And parents are not taught to distinguish which ones are needed, which
ones are safer, which ones have true placebo trials, which ones could need two or not. In the state of Colorado,
they've just decided kids need two chickenpox vaccines, and there's no evidence as to why two is better than
one. They just say they want two, and that they just that's what they want. And so why do you think that the media
is in lock step to treat vaccines as if they are all one thing? >> Well, let's not forget that about 70% of
the advertising revenue on television and in print media comes from the pharmaceutical industry. The
pharmaceutical industry is extremely powerful. They have two lobbyists for every member of Congress. there is
almost no industry that is more powerful in terms of ad dollars and in terms of lobbying. Um but beyond that, I think
there's a whole mythology, right? Vaccines save lives. Vaccines are safe and effective. We've created this
mythology and treat vaccines completely differently than we treat drugs. And you know, there's liability protection.
They're coerced. They're mandatory to to attend school. Vaccines have been put in this really amazing category for way too
long. And I I hope that this lawsuit helps to dispel some of that mythology. The hard fact truths are the American
Academy of Pediatrics, just like the Tobacco Research Institute, is a front organization for industry. This is a
pharmaceutical front organization and their clients are not your children. Their clients are pharmaceutical
behemoths. right now. You can't really it it from a legal perspective, it seems smarter to me to go up against the
American Academy of Pediatrics rather than the vaccine makers themselves because they enjoy an extreme amount of
immunity. And so it and it's maybe not on them if they make a chickenpox vaccine, it's not on them to test it
with a tetanus vaccine at the same time. They don't have to. The government doesn't require them to. And so talk
about the tactics of going after the American Academy of Pediatrics and what you think well what do your lawyers say
you know is the strength of this lawsuit realistic because a good lawyer will tell you what is the uphill battle. Do
you have good lawyers advising you that this is the part that will be hard? >> Sure. You know and I am myself an
attorney and so have been very involved in in looking at this and and the strength of this is that it's going
after the AAP for fraud. they have been knowingly lying. That is very clear. There's very clear evidence that they
know that what they're saying is a lie. And um we're not actually asking them to change the vaccines. We're just saying
you have to tell people the truth. They set this standard. The AAP is saying to be a good pediatrician, you have to be a
member of the AAP and you have to follow the AAP guidelines. And up until Secretary Kennedy, the AAP and the
Centers for Disease Control were in lock step about what the vaccines are. And frankly, you know, there's never been a
vaccine that was blessed by the advisory committee at the CDC that the AAP didn't like. So the the the schedule has only
gone in one direction since liability protection came into play in 1986. But they really have um been kind of this
scientific patina, this scientific front organization
so that it doesn't look to the public like this is just commerce and this is just like, you know, a a steamroller. It
looks like, oh, we're pediatricians. We care about your kids. And we're really trying to hammer that. That's not true.
And we really see very strong analogies to tobacco. And this DC federal court and the DC circuit, they upheld the
rulings against uh the racketeering of the tobacco organiz the companies and the front organizations, the research
organization. And we think the analogy is very strong. In fact, it's not it's stronger here. Not only because we're
dealing with children and not with adults, but also as the complaint makes clear, not only do they sell the
vaccines, then they buy the companies and they sell the medicines that arise, the chronic diseases that arise from the
vaccines. So, what we know is that autoimmune conditions, neurological conditions, these are often chronic
conditions that develop from vaccine injuries. Most people aren't aware of that, but certainly the pharmaceutical
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>> If passed his prologue, we if we pay attention, we could get from this discovery from this litigation
all manner of communication >> from the American Academy of Pediatrics saying this is real. this data shows
this, let's do this with this. I mean, we have that from the Florida fluoride industry, from the American Academy of
Dentistry. Exactly. >> Um, so >> it's incumbent on us. We have to pay
attention because this could be huge, >> right? This is like tobacco, you know, ultimately the information came out.
They knew that tobacco caused lung cancer. They weren't in the dark about that. It was just all about how do we
how do we prevent people from knowing that? How do we have some doubt? And and it's they they haven't even gotten to
that here. they've just been saying and and gotten away with it. The the the schedule is well tested. You know, there
are no such things essentially as vaccine injury and that's sadly totally untrue. Um the first two plaintiffs in
our case are parents of children who died from their vaccines, died from their vaccines and sadly that's not so
rare. >> It's in their black labels. They know it. They This is undeniable. It happens.
Um, I want to ask you about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He now says he's launching an investigation into the
childhood vaccine schedule. Uh, what do you make of this? Do you think that he might be also successful in receiving
and publicizing some of this information so that parents have it? >> We're very excited about this. So, what
he's really focused on are the financial kickbacks, right? So, pediatricians have to have about 90% of their practice get
all of these vaccines so that they get these bonuses. And if they don't get those bonuses, they literally can't stay
in business. And our complaint deals with that. And the attorney general, >> I don't think I understood that
financial. So that's why if I tell my pediatrician, I'm not doing this. That's why she's so annoyed
>> and she might even kick you and your children out of the practice because she has to make certain thresholds like 90%
and then she'll make correct. So you're threatening to her making her bonuses and without those
bonuses she can't really stay in practice. So that's what Ken Paxton is going after and he has things as a state
attorney in general that we don't have. So he's already put out 20 requests and they're not really requests. They're
essentially like subpoenas. You have to turn over these documents. So again, people are going to be waking up. This
is a big business and it's fraught with perverse incentives. It's not about your child. It's about meeting these
thresholds that 90% of the kids or 95% of the kids have gotten all these shots. >> How can that be legal?
>> It shouldn't be kickbacks. >> They're kickbacks. They should not be legal. They've gotten away with it. It's
through the insurance industries. Uh and it's something that has to come out and and um we're we're getting
>> Can you have a good faith conversation with the doctor and say like let's say a COVID vaccine and you say, "Well, I
already have heart inflammation." And the doctor says, "But this will hurt me if you don't do it, so let's do it."
That's that's literally the incentives that play here. I don't I'm [laughter] flabbergasted clearly.
>> Well, it's actually throughout medicine, right? So there's there there websites that show, you know, doctors get
kickbacks from the medical device makers and from the drug ones. And if you prescribe, you know, x percentage of our
drug rather than the competitors, medicine's full of this. There's a lot of corruption in medicine sadly, but we
have to get back to the idea that it's all about the individual. It's about the patient. It's about the child. It's
about the parent and the child and what is best for this child, not what is best for this pediatrician's economic bottom
line. What is best for the health and well-being of this child? And we hope that this lawsuit will take us in that
direction. >> Well, I'm wishing you luck. I want to see a lot that you get to see in the
discovery process. I hope you don't settle it. Uh but I know it's it's a tough it's a tough hill that you've got
to climb because you're up against deep pockets. So, um keep us informed, please.
>> Absolutely. Thank you so much.
The lawsuit alleges that the AAP violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act by systematically misleading parents about vaccine safety. Key claims include that the full childhood vaccine schedule has never been tested in combination for safety, that the AAP knowingly made fraudulent statements about vaccine safety, and that pediatricians face financial pressure—such as bonuses for meeting 90% vaccination thresholds—which create perverse incentives to suppress evidence of risks.
The lawsuit draws parallels to successful RICO cases against tobacco companies, arguing that both industries knowingly suppressed safety information and used front organizations to create false scientific credibility. The case contends that the AAP, like the Tobacco Research Institute, functioned as a front for the pharmaceutical industry. The comparison notes that the vaccine case may be stronger because it involves vulnerable children.
The lawsuit highlights that the Institute of Medicine (the highest medical authority in the U.S.) told the AAP in 2002 and 2013 that they cannot claim the full schedule is safe without comparing vaccinated versus unvaccinated outcomes—a study that has never been conducted. This gap in comparative safety data forms a core argument that the AAP's safety claims are unsupported by evidence, echoing similar regulatory gaps in other medical fields.
The lawsuit claims pediatricians must vaccinate at least 90% of their patients to receive bonuses, creating an incentive to prioritize vaccination targets over individual patient concerns. Parents who question the schedule risk being removed from medical practices. Additionally, vaccine manufacturers profit twice—first from vaccine sales and later from medications to treat vaccine-related chronic conditions, further financial entangling the system.
The lawsuit points out that 70% of television and print advertising revenue comes from pharmaceutical companies, and the industry has two lobbyists for every member of Congress. This influence is alleged to suppress objective vaccine safety information. Vaccines also receive unique liability protection not afforded to other drugs, shielding manufacturers and promoters from accountability.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation focusing on financial kickbacks within the childhood vaccine schedule. He has issued 20 subpoena-like requests for documents related to these practices. This probe aligns with the lawsuit's claims, potentially uncovering evidence of suppressed data and internal communications about vaccine safety concerns.
The discovery process may expose internal communications about vaccine safety concerns, evidence of suppressed data, and documentation of financial incentive structures. This information could transform pediatric medical practices by increasing transparency and empowering parents to make more informed decisions. The lawsuit underscores the need for evidence-based care and accountability in childhood vaccination policies.
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