Science reporter who's covered ME and HIV since 1994. Author of "Shots in the Dark: An Investigation Into Covid Vaccines, Long Covid and ME/CFS." On Amazon.

Below is the trailer for my new book, "Shots In The Dark: An Investigation Into Covid Vaccines, Long Covid and ME/CFS.” The book’s on Amazon: amazon.com/Shots-Dark-Invest… Pls share the trailer on X.
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Honored to have been invited to give a one hour lecture to NIH and NCI about our 20 years of work on a cancer vaccine and our collaboration with NCi. Had a great talk and great feedback..apparently over 170 people attended the talk Friday. Will send a link once I get the recording. ALC matters!
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We are SO grateful to Greta for continuing to help us get Braelyn to her next treatment. ❤️🙏 I want to clarify something for everyone who has already generously donated: your donations are definitely being put to use. Braelyn’s early September treatment in London had been charged to our credit cards, and the funds raised so far helped us pay those treatment expenses. Now we are preparing for her next DCVax treatment in November. We’ve been incredibly blessed to have our airfare and lodging donated, but we still need approximately $25,000 to cover the treatment itself. Thank you to every single person who has donated, shared, prayed and helped us keep going. We truly could not do this without you. 🩶
To get through November’s cancer treatment, this family needs about $25,000 right now…can you all help a bit and contribute? With crowd sharing (all of us paying a little), we can save this girl’s life…thank you so much gofundme.com/f/help-braelyn-…
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Expanded access for Dr. Soon-Shiong's groundbreaking drug Anktiva is long overdue. It works by improving the function & number of natural killer cells, critical white blood cells necessary to prevent & kill cancer. Approve Anktiva for papillary bladder cancer now. & expand access to *all* cancer patients. Because patients deserve the right to try. @DrPatrick @bullishbruk
Still waiting for the FDA to expand access and remove Standard of care requirements for cancer patients! Unleash #ANKTIVA and NK cell therapy!
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Spike injured brains have less RAM at higher energy cost
22 people with long COVID. Mild infection, no hospitalization, nearly three years out. Routine MRI clean - the radiologist found nothing. Their brains still perfuse measurably worse than matched controls. Not in one spot, but globally.🧵
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"No Evidence of Disease." Were sweeter words ever spoken? 19-year-old Braelyn is finally free of aggressive brain cancer. After 3 yrs of surgery & treatment & more surgery & a personalized vaccine--her tumor was *finally* correctly preserved, so that a personalized cancer vaccine could be made--Braelyn & her family can celebrate. Families, unfortunately, are tasked w telling surgeons that they want tumors to be correctly preserved. If not, no matter how prestigious the institution, most don't preserve it. (There needs to be law.) This time around, Braelyn was offered the usual treatment: chemotherapy & photon radiation that would affect most of her brain, as her immense tumor spanned 3 of the 4 main lobes. But since her tumor was MGMT-unmethylated--meaning the tumor cells actively produce the MGMT repair enzyme--chemo mostly likely would be of little benefit. What changed Braelyn's prognosis: First, a brilliant surgeon at UCLA removed 90% of the tumor. Second, that tumor was used to manufacture Braelyn’s personalized vaccine in England. That vaccine killed the remaining 10% of the tumor that the surgeon couldn't remove due to its involvement w critical structures. Three years of relentless searching and holding their breath and now the tenacious Braelyn and her resolute family can breathe. Braelyn's mother, Amanda, posts about Braelyn, below:
I have been waiting almost 3 years to write these words: NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE. 🙏❤️ Today we met with Braelyn’s neurosurgeon, Dr. Linda Liau at UCLA (telehealth). When our local radiologist read Braelyn’s August 28 MRI as “no evidence of disease recurrence,” we were thrilled—but I was afraid to fully exhale. I knew Dr. Liau and the UCLA tumor board would scrutinize every millimeter of those images. What if they saw something the local radiologist missed? Today, Dr. Liau told us that she and the tumor board had thoroughly reviewed Braelyn’s MRI. They were amazed. There is NO VISIBLE TUMOR. Even the ~10% Dr. Liau had to leave behind during surgery because of its intimate involvement with critical structures is no longer visible. She emphasized how amazed and pleased the entire tumor board was by such a complete response at this point. Her assessment: the prior radiation and the ongoing DCVax appear to be working very well. Their recommendation after also reviewing the Keytruda regimen Braelyn recently started? KEEP DOING WHAT SHE’S DOING. 😭🙏 First and foremost, we give ALL thanks and glory to God. People all over the world have prayed for this girl. I cannot begin to express how humbled and grateful we are. But tonight I also cannot stop thinking about how close Braelyn came to never having this opportunity. Earlier this year, her tumor was enormous and growing rapidly. We sought help from multiple surgeons—including at prestigious institutions. We were told further surgery was too risky. We were offered the same old options: chemotherapy and photon radiation that would affect most of her brain, given the size of her tumor. Her tumor is MGMT-unmethylated, so for Braelyn, chemo was all risk with little to no benefit. And then a stranger I met here on X changed everything. @ThomasOwenMcCa1 connected us with Dr. Liau. After reviewing Braelyn’s case, one of the first things she said was: “This girl needs surgery right away.” I told her we knew that. We just couldn’t find anyone willing to do it. I asked if SHE would. “If you can get her to me, I will do her surgery.” We got Braelyn to UCLA. Within two weeks, Dr. Liau operated and removed ~90% of a massive tumor spanning three lobes, stopping where continuing would risk critical structures. And this time, her tumor tissue was PROPERLY PRESERVED. That tissue was ultimately sent to England and used to manufacture Braelyn’s personalized DCVax vaccine. She has now received 3 induction doses + her first booster. And today? The tumor that Dr. Liau had to leave behind is no longer visible on MRI. Think about that. And then think about what could have happened if we had simply accepted “there’s nothing else we can do.” THIS is why I will not stop advocating for reform. Patients should not have to find potentially life-saving treatment options accidentally through strangers on social media. Patients should be told about legitimate investigational options when standard treatment offers little hope. Patients undergoing tumor surgery should be informed BEFORE surgery about preservation of tissue that could potentially be used for personalized treatments. And patients should have the right to make informed decisions about which risks they are willing to take. Promising science means very little if the patients who need it cannot access it. Braelyn is living proof of why access matters. Tonight, though, advocacy can wait for just a moment. Tonight I’m her mom. And I finally get to say the words I have begged God to someday let me say: NO EVIDENCE OF DISEASE. Thank You, God. Thank you, Dr. Liau. Thank you to everyone who opened a door, donated, shared her story, fought for her and prayed for our girl. There is always light, even in the darkest places. Tonight that light is shining incredibly bright. ❤️🙏 #DCVaxForBraelyn #CureNotCovered @greta @kshaughnessy2 @andrewcaravello
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Canada is the only country to have this many vaccine-injured testify under oath - MSM won’t cover this. Calling all independent journalists on X to share this livestream! @kanoerana7 @TheChiefNerd @VigilantFox @JackPosobiec @megynkelly @DC_Draino @elonmusk @drdrew @EmeraldRobinson @BreannaMorello @Bannons_WarRoom @BretWeinstein @OwenShroyer1776 @OwenBenjamin @Nero @JesseKellyDC @DiedSuddenly_ @RepThomasMassie @FmrRepMTG @RealAlexJones
Allison Inquiry Day Two | Live Testimony From Ottawa nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1DxleVYjD…
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A summary of @MaryanneDemasi piece on the gross bias of the journal Vaccine and its editors: They accept a paper by @moderna_tx in 15 days. They accept a ‘reassuring’ paper on VSAFE data by @CDCgov . They desk reject a paper on VSAFE data that raises potential concerns🙄 @angie_rasmussen @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay @RonJohnsonWI
🚦The journal Vaccine has an impartiality problem It was once the flagship journal of vaccinology. Now, Vaccine has undergone a striking editorial shift. This investigation examines what changed — and why it matters. LINK below 👇👇 @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay @LocasaleLab @drgregpoland @RetsefL @florian_krammer @angie_rasmussen @Kevin_McKernan @MaryBowdenMD
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If you can support the fight of 19-year-old Braelyn, who has recurrent brain cancer, w the cost of a lifesaving cancer vaccine made from her own tumor cells, here's how: gofundme.com/f/help-braelyn-…
I am truly overwhelmed. ❤️ It hasn’t even been 24 hours, and the outpouring of love and support for Braelyn has brought me to tears more than once today. To every person who has donated, shared her story, prayed for her, or simply sent us words of encouragement — please know how deeply grateful our entire family is. And Greta, thank you for continuing to use your voice and your platform for our girl. I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to adequately express what this means to us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. ❤️
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Carrie Sakamoto describes her severe Covid-vaccine injury, & how the Canadian gov't failed her. When will the US gov't & other countries follow suit? When will government recognize Covid-vaccine injuries as the medical emergency that they are? Instead, they keep reciting well-worn, woefully inaccurate mantras that these injuries are "rare," "very rare" or "exceedingly rare."
What Carrie Sakamoto @CarrieSak has been through is since the day of her second vax dose is nothing short of horrific. Just listen to this. The entire healthcare system has failed her in every way possible. Countless visits early on where she told them something is very wrong and not right and her side effects were always being dismissed as something else. She was only ever handed medication to counteract the pain.
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My 28-year-old healthy niece died within 48 hours of taking the 4th shot which she was coerced into by the Ontario old age home where she worked
🚨Allison Inquiry Bombshell🚨 Senator Ron Johnson testified that 6,900 deaths had been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Forty percent of them occurred on the day of vaccination or within the next 48 hours. Why did Health Canada ignore these warnings?
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Vienna Demeduk is now testifying that following her vaccination she immediately lost vision, fell down and had a stroke. She woke up in the ICU without vision, hooked up to tubes and wires and that was the beginning of her nightmare, 3 days later she had a brain hemorrhage. She then got 3 blood clots and another brain hemorrhage. The head stroke Dr told her that it was definitely a vaccine injury while admitting that she has had multiple healthy people coming in for the same thing. She ended up having 12 more strokes and brain blood clots, leaving her confined to using a cane (before the jabs she was an avid runner). These stories are horrific and they need to be told, these witnesses were told they had to do this for the greater good, the trusted health Canada who said it was safe and now their lives have been forever changed. This can never happen again. Please share this far and wide!
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This woman is a warrior. God bless her.
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: In a historic four-day inquiry, Canadians reporting COVID-19 vaccine injuries are sharing their stories on Parliament Hill. WATCH DAY 1 LIVE 👇 nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1yxBePOAq…
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When daughter Braelyn was first diagnosed w a brain tumor, her parents didn't know to ask that the tumor be properly preserved & frozen for future treatments. A few years later, when they pursued a personalize cancer vaccine for Braelyn, doctors asked whether her daughter's tumor had been frozen. Her mother, Amanda, replied that she thought so, because the surgeries had been done at distinguished hospitals. Unfortunately, Amanda was wrong. Braelyn's tumor hadn't been preserved. But when her daughter tumor recurred, this time the tumor *was* properly frozen, & that's why Braelyn got a vaccine specially made for her. "Hope shouldn't be thrown away in a pathology lab," Amanda says in this short, informative video. #glioblastoma
I didn’t know to ask. Why would I? Braelyn had brain tumor surgeries at elite institutions, and no one ever told us that how her tumor tissue was preserved could determine whether it could be used for certain future treatment options. Unfortunately—but fortunately—Braelyn needed another surgery. By then, thanks to what I had learned here on X, I knew to ask. We made arrangements BEFORE surgery for her tumor tissue to be properly cryogenically preserved. That tissue ultimately made it possible to manufacture her personalized DCVax. This is why I keep sharing our story. If you or someone you love is facing brain tumor surgery, be proactive before surgery. Ask what will happen to the tumor tissue. If preserving tissue for DCVax or other future options is important to you, contact $NWBO/Advent for their current tissue-handling requirements and get that information into the hands of the surgeon, pathology department and hospital team BEFORE the operation. You shouldn’t have to know to ask. But until this becomes routine, please ask. Preserve the tissue. Preserve the options. ❤️ #FreezeYourTumor #DCvaxForBraelyn
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Dan Van Ackeren’s symptoms, says his widow Brenda Van Ackeren, began abruptly after his second—& last Covid shot. At the time, he was 50, healthy, fit. He loved playing tennis w their three sons—two from Dan’s first marriage, one from her first. Tennis was Dan’s game—he’d won top in state for tennis back in high school. Dan was also an avid hiker & loved pickleball & basketball. By profession, he was a chiropractor w an MBA, a serial entrepreneur, mostly in the wellness industry, while Brenda has been in talent acquisition for 20 years. Dan had proposed to Brenda after only four months. “Our connection was immediate,” she says. In the early days of Covid, Dan was working on a regenerative medicine deal for the NFL Alumni Association, when, as fate would have it, he met Dr. Peter Marks at a meeting. Back then, Marks was FDA’s vaccine tzar; now he works at Eli Lilly. At that meeting Brenda says her husband heard Marks state that “they had something big prepared that was being rolled out,” which Brenda believes was probably the Covid vaccines. Dan’s first Covid vaccine was relatively uneventful, just sweats, chills and fever for a few days. But the night of his second shot, Dan’s life changed irrevocably. “He woke up screaming in pain & unable to sleep,” Brenda recalls. Pain became his unwelcome companion. “He couldn’t sit or lie down, [he] started vomiting, his feet would turn blue." “He couldn’t work, which was really hard on him as a type A go-getter," Brenda says. In November of 2021, Brenda woke up to find her husband unresponsive, gave him CPR & called 911. Paramedics intubated Dan & rushed him to their hospital's ICU. After the immediate crisis passed, the hospital treated him "terribly," Brenda says—even warehousing Dan on the psych floor—until a social worker realized how much he wanted to live. Brenda and Dan were determined to get answers & treatment. Their search led to a diagnosis of POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), plus severe & widespread microclots, both common in long vax and long Covid patients. The bad diagnoses kept coming. The final blow was the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy (MSA), a rare, progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disorder that affects both the central nervous system—movement and coordination—& the autonomic nervous system, which regulates blood pressure, digestion, heart rate. (MSA used to be known as Shy-Drager syndrome.) Dan began to experience hallucinations and major memory problems—not typical for MSA. But the diseases induced by Covid vaccines & long Covid are often more virulent w unusual presentations, making them difficult to diagnose & treat. Some researchers believe that the root cause of these atypical diseases is the body's unrelenting spike protein production in susceptible individuals. The spike factories create diseases that are riffs on known maladies—but that don't respond well to approved treatments. And no scientist has figured out how to reliably turn off spike production. Usually MSA is slowly progressive. But Dan’s progression was relentless, like many others suffering from Covid-vaccine injuries & long Covid. “He knew he was not going to get any better, & he didn’t want any more bad news,” Benda says. “He couldn’t even get into a car to get to a doctor. At the end, hospice pain medications were not enough to help w his pain.” On July 24, 2026, at the age of 55, Dan Van Ackeren committed suicide. *** One week later, Brenda received a letter from the Social Security administration. Dan had appealed Social Security's denial of benefits, but the agency affirmed its denial. The denial read, in part: "You said you were unable to work as of 11/15/2021 because of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; abnormal finding of blood chemistry; blood clogs [sic], dysautonomia; alpha-synuclein; tumor left inner ear; whit [sic] matter frontal lob [sic] brain; POTS; and multiple degeneration of the autonomic system nervous [sic]. "We have determined your condition not disabling on any date through 12/31/2024, when you were last insured for disability benefits. In deciding this, we considered the medical records, your statements, and how your condition affected your ability to work." *** If Dan Van Ackeren's story resonates w you, please retweet. @AckerenBrenda @POTUS45 @SecKennedy @DrJBhattacharya @SenRandPaul @SenRonJohnson #COVID_19 #longcovid @KevinMcCairnPhD @ChrisCuomo @React19org @CharlesRixey @MaryBowdenMD @HouseLyndseyRN @exosome @DrMargaretShow Brenda and Dan Van Ackeren
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Yet, The side effects of #ANKTIVA and NK cell therapy is fatigue for a few days and a bloom At the injection site. Moderna gets approval, and ANKTIVA still ignored by the FDA. Big Pharma privilege.
Moderna added $44 billion in market value in one trading day on the melanoma announcement. The press release contains no hazard ratio, no confidence interval, and no patient counts. I went looking for what it left out. malone.news/p/melanoma-forty…
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Breaking: This email just released by @SenRonJohnson and @RandPaul is pivotal! Janet Woodcock, #2 @FDA admits that the adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination are so vague & unspecific that they will not likely be detected by any of the existing pharmacovigilance systems! On May 2021, this was known and yet the injured were abandoned and gaslighted! At the ACIP COVID-19 WG, we prepared a detailed report that called this out and highlighted what urgently needs to be done to address this moral failure and help the many that are injured! @React19org @BrianneDressen
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