Topic: Marcus Zervos

In 2016, Del Bigtree met Dr. Marcus Zervos, the head of infectious disease at Henry Ford Health and a key figure in the Flint water crisis investigation. Zervos, who was initially pro-vaccine, admitted to Bigtree that proper placebo-controlled safety trials for childhood vaccines had never been conducted. He agreed to perform a retrospective comparative study of 18,000 children to prove the safety of the vaccine schedule, promising to publish the results regardless of the outcome.

After completing the study in 2020, Dr. Zervos reportedly refused to publish the results, fearing it would destroy his career. Bigtree eventually used undercover recording equipment to confront Zervos about the suppression of the data. The segment also discusses the "ethical" argument used by regulatory agencies to avoid safety trials, claiming it is unethical to deny children vaccines for a placebo group, which Bigtree calls a "hogtie" on scientific inquiry.

After Dr. Zervos refused to publish his findings, attorney Aaron Siri provided the study to Senator Ron Johnson. Johnson used his authority as a government official to publish the study on the Senate website and held a hearing to bring the data to the public. The study's conclusion showed that vaccinated children have 2.5 times the rate of chronic disease and six times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders compared to the unvaccinated.

Del Bigtree reveals that he recorded undercover footage of Dr. Zervos admitting that the study was "the right thing to do" but that he could not handle the career fallout of publishing it. Henry Ford Health reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bigtree's non-profit, accusing him of defamation for claiming they suppressed the study. Bigtree compares this to a "Galileo moment," where the scientific establishment suppresses truth to maintain a "religious bias" in favor of vaccines.