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DEL BIGTREE ON HOW TO WIN THE VACCINE DEBATE

The Alix Mayer Show··4 October 2026·56 min

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How do you talk to someone who completely disagrees with you about vaccines without the conversation turning into a fight? In this episode of The Alix Mayer Show, Del Bigtree, host of The HighWire and CEO of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), shares the arguments and questions he uses when talking to people who strongly support vaccination…that actually work. Bigtree explains why the worst way to start is by bombarding someone with facts, and why asking questions, finding common ground, and understanding what the other person actually believes can make for a much more effective conversation to advance the medical freedom movement. Alix and Del dive deep into the vaccine debate: vaccine side effects and informed consent, measles and herd immunity, the health of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children, waning immunity, mandates, COVID, mRNA technology, and what Bigtree describes as major unanswered questions surrounding vaccine safety research. Del takes Alix inside the story behind his film An Inconvenient Study and his push for research comparing health outcomes among vaccinated and unvaccinated children. He discusses the Henry Ford Health study featured in the film, why it was never published in a peer-reviewed journal, and what its findings reveal. They also discuss California’s vaccine mandates, Free Now Foundation’s legal efforts to challenge them, and why the fight over parental choice is far from over. In this episode, we cover:Del’s #1 rule for talking to someone who disagrees with you about vaccinesThe “unassailable argument” he says he developed for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Why you should start with questions instead of factsVaccine warning labels, side effects, and informed consentThe measles debate and Del’s case for natural immunity“Ferrari immunity” vs. “Ford Pinto immunity”Waning vaccine immunity and the herd immunity debatePertussis vaccines and transmissionVaccinated vs. unvaccinated health outcomesThe Henry Ford study featured in An Inconvenient StudyCOVID vaccines and the future of mRNA technologyCalifornia vaccine mandates and parental rightsFree Now Foundation and ICAN’s legal battlesWhere Del believes the medical-freedom movement goes nextDel Bigtree:Del Bigtree is the host of The HighWire, CEO of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), and producer of Vaxxed. His latest film, An Inconvenient Study, examines a vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated health study conducted using data from Henry Ford Health.Sponsor:The Alix Mayer Show is sponsored by Mish International, gold and silver specialists since 1963.When you need protection from monetary inflation and leveraged asset exposure, contact the trusted team at Mish International. You need gold. Physical gold.Visit: mishinternational.comCall: 650-324-9110 — Tell them Alix sent you. Connect / Support:Learn more about Free Now Foundation and its legal efforts surrounding medical freedom:https://freenowfoundation.org/#AlixMayerShow #DelBigtree #TheHighWire #MedicalFreedom #VaccineDebate #InformedConsent #Vaccines #ParentalRights #FreeNowFoundation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.