MAFA Newsletter
October 30 2025
đ˛Financial Update:
We asked and you answered! After reporting our October deficit a couple of weeks ago ($24,520), both Tribes and members pitched in to help. We are still running a deficit for October, but it IS smaller! Here is a current report for October revenue and expenses:
Income: $21,964.75
Expenditures: $34,419.00
Deficit: $12,964.75 â reduced by almost half!
I KNOW we can close this gap with more donations! Thank you in advance for your support!
FYI: We have not touched our savings account, which I have maintained knowing that at some point we will need this for a major jury trial. Remember that small donations add up to a lot. If everyone in our database donated just $5 per month we would never have any money worries again!
đ°NEWS!
Item #1: In 2024, the Kansas State Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Pfizer claiming that Pfizer knowingly misrepresented its COVID vaccine as being safe and effective. Particularly egregious was the representation that the vaccine was safe for pregnant women and did not increase the risk of myocarditis or pericarditis in adolescent and young men. The AG just won the first round in this case. Pfizerâs lawyers tried to have the case moved from state to federal court, even though the claims made in the lawsuit were violations of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. Had Pfizer succeeded, the case would likely have been dismissed due to jurisdictional issues. But a U.S. district court judge recently remanded the case back for trial in Kansas state court. (1)
This is bad news for Pfizer, good news for those of us who would like to see Pfizer and some of its executives punished for their egregious behavior. The complaint is 179 pages long and is well worth reading in its entirety. But one of MAFAâs champions and best advocates, Loan Eby in Nebraska, found something in the complaint that is really worth sharing with you:
Unlike the other companies involved in the development of a COVID vaccine, Pfizer did not join Operation Warp Speed and declined to accept funding from the U.S. government.
Pfizer seemingly went out of its way to distance itself from Operation Warp Speed when it announced the results of its COVID-19 vaccine trials. Pfizerâs senior vice president and head of vaccine research and development said, âWe were never part of the Warp Speed.â
Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla told the public that Pfizer declined government funding ââŚto liberate our scientists from any bureaucracy. When you get money from someone that always comes with strings. They want to see how we are going to progress, what type of moves you are going to do. They want reports. I didnât want to have any of that.â In other words, Bourla did not want ANY accountability. Because Pfizer did not accept government funding, â[t]he government had limited visibility into what was happening at Pfizer âŚâ according to the complaint.
Pfizerâs non-participation in Operation Warp Speed resulted in a âtailormade contractâ that allowed Pfizer to âretain almost all of its intellectual property rights and forgo the taxpayer protection clauses found in most government contracts that fund inventions.â
By September 2020, Pfizer had invested at least $1.5 billion in COVID vaccine development. Losing this money by failing to get its vaccine approved would have been âpainful,â according to Bourla, with losses of $1.5 to $2 billion.
Pfizerâs actions indicated prior knowledge that its COVID vaccine would be approved â regardless of what the trial data showed. The company manufactured a âfew millionâ doses before it received any safety or efficacy data from its clinical trials.
Even more disgusting: Bourla benefitted from this assumption financially. He sold his stock on November 9 2020, the same day that Pfizer announced that the vaccine was over â90% effective.â He personally netted $5.6 million.
You most likely know the rest of the story. Pfizer convinced the government to agree to keep Pfizerâs information confidential for 10 years, and also to agree not to make any public announcements about the vaccine without written permission from the company. This sounds more like an agreement between business partners than terms issued by a regulatory agency to a drug company. A lawsuit forced Pfizer to release the documents immediately instead of 10 years later. The data in those documents showed that Pfizer spun the data to make the claim that the vaccine was âsafe and effective.â As we know now, it was clearly neither.
âźď¸Important: Pfizer has been charged 74 times for criminal and civil violations and has paid billions of dollars in criminal fines during the last several decades. Itâs hard to fathom how the company has been allowed to stay in business in view of some of its actions, such as enrolling children in an unauthorized trial that resulted in the deaths of some of them; bribing doctors and regulators; falsifying trial data; and selling defective heart valves that killed over 100 people. According to the Justice Department, Pfizer is âtoo big to fail,â which is why the company is still doing business in the U.S. In view of this, FDA officialsâ commitment to approve a vaccine made by this company without seeing trial data, and to commit to keep the companyâs data from the public for ten years is inexplicable.
Even worse, Pfizer has paid no penalty for the abominable vaccines it produced and for its false claims. Even if the Kansas AG wins, Pfizer will continue to enjoy its cozy relationship with the FDA and other government agencies and officials, and continue to generate billions of dollars annually in the U.S. Fines and court settlements are just a cost of doing business for Pfizer and the other drug companies doing business in the U.S. There have been no announcements from the Trump administration indicating that any of this will change. In fact, FDA chair Marty Makary has promised FASTER product approvals, not more scrutiny.
The take-home point: It will take a giant and well-funded consumer movement to dismantle this cabal. It really is time to get to work â and the next news item illustrates the need for this even more.
Item #2: A development in one of our casesâŚ
Lisa Baumgart, a licensed physical therapist in Massachusetts, was investigated several years ago by the stateâs Board of Registration for not enforcing mask mandates in her office during the COVID debacle. The requirement was patently absurd, as Baumgartâs clientele includes elderly people and fragile patients who have trouble breathing even when NOT wearing a mask. The exertion of physical therapy without being able to breathe can be dangerous.
Despite years of pressure from the state, Baumgart bravely drew a line in the sand and refused to admit that she did anything wrong â because she didnât. COVID restrictions were not laws and were only enforceable through intimidation. She simply used clinical judgment concerning patients in her care. And NOT ONE of those patients complained about her services.
A few days ago, and after numerous communications during which the Board encouraged Baumgart to settle, the Board finally issued a determination; Baumgart erred in not enforcing the mask mandate. Her practice was placed on probation for a year, and she was fined $200. She is required to earn an extra nine continuing education credits. Likely any missteps during this probationary period â real or invented â will result in further discipline and could even involve licensure revocation.
While it is difficult to determine what goes on in the minds of government employees who have ridiculous amounts of power over citizens, we think that the Boardâs failure to issue a finding for the last several years was the fact that they knew that they were on shaky ground. Perhaps members hoped that Baumgart would close her practice, move to a free state, or offer a compromise. She did not. And now, she must move this battle to court, where she is much more likely to get a fair hearing and potentially to nullify the boardâs disciplinary action. Cases like this are being tried in court all over the country, and in some cases health professionals have won large damage awards from the government.
State licensure boards are powerful â too powerful in almost every state. What makes their power particularly egregious is that they are heavily influenced by associations and non-profits that are highly conflicted due to contributions from drug and device makers and other commercial interests.
Americans want better healthcare from better practitioners who put patients first. Such care is increasingly hard to find as more and more practitioners follow instructions and practice defensively to avoid unwelcome attention from state boards instead of providing the services they want to provide and which their patients seek.
There is only one way to solve this â aggressive defense of practitioners in court. Boards are answerable to state legislatures, and in most states their funding comes from licensure fees. If expenses due to defending their actions in court exceed their revenues from licensure fees they have to ask the legislature to raise licensure fees to cover their shortfall. In some states, this pressure has resulted in changes in rules and regulations and in investigatory practices.
The problem is that very few practitioners can afford to defend themselves. This can be solved two ways: more donations from a growing member base, and recruiting practitioners to pay a nominal annual fee ($100 per year) into a defense fund. We calculate that if 5% of both licensed and unlicensed practitioners in the U.S. joined and contributed, we would have over $100 million to invest in aggressive defense and even proactive intervention. Itâs time to make this happen!
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