Children’s Health Defense

A Landmark Lawsuit to Expose Institutional Medical Fraud

The words CHD'S lawsuit exposes AAP fraud on a background of a gavel and the AAP logo seal

Children’s Health Defense has filed a major lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Here’s what you need to know:

  • AAP has been profiting from the vaccine cabal since the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986
  • AAP has forcefully and intentionally spread the lie that vaccines have been fully tested and proven safe — through its journal Pediatrics and its Red Book policy statements
  • AAP has concealed material facts about the lack of testing and inadequacies in vaccine safety monitoring and financial incentives tied to vaccine schedule compliance
  • AAP’s fraudulent behavior has resulted in death, injury, and the violation of basic human rights
  • Just like United States v. Philip Morris, about tobacco profiteering and fraud, our lawsuit implicates a medical trade association for decades of fraudulent health risk denials

We’re suing the AAP to shut down a decades-long scheme to defraud pediatricians and American families about the safety of the childhood vaccination schedule.

Our co-plaintiffs include:

  • The families of three children who were killed by childhood vaccines
  • A child whose valid medical exemption was rejected by administrators who followed AAP guidance
  • Two physicians who lost their licenses to practice because they offered medical advice that contradicted AAP guidance.

For decades, the AAP has spread disinformation — including  the unfounded claim that vaccines are “safe and effective.”

Those fraudulent claims resulted in the injuries and deaths of countless children. They also ruined the livelihoods of honest pediatricians.

This is what challenging disinformation at the source looks like. This is what exposing the perverse incentives behind medical judgment looks like.

This is what the quest for justice on behalf of grieving families and wrongly vilified pediatricians looks like.

Lawsuits like these are the result of strategic thinking, keen vigilance, and a laser focus on CHD’s mission to protect children. But they’re also a reminder that our work is far from over.

Make no mistake, the AAP and the forces that have been propping it up will fight us tooth and nail. Everything is at stake for them.

We urge you to follow and learn more about this case in The Defender and on CHD TV, and to make a gift to CHD today using the form below, to help ensure our continued ability to bring suits like this one.

The time to fight this fight is now. We will not miss the opportunity.

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