The World Council for Health (WCH) is one of many organizations and individuals who have been defamed by Wikipedia since the advent of Covid-19. As discussed at the WCH’s 83rd General Assembly meeting in April 2023, this has been part of a much broader strategy to silence various forms of dissent.
WCH was established to challenge the official Covid response and its Wikipedia article was created in September 2022. The current Wikipedia entry is fairly close to the original version, although it has been edited a number of times. However, a number of Wikipedia pages created prior to Covid-19 have been completely amended since 2020, resulting in a ‘hero-to-zero’ fall from grace for people such as the author Dr Vernon Coleman (compare his October 2019 entry with the current article), and the early developer of the mRNA vaccine technology, Dr Robert Malone, whose role in this invention has been deleted from the page on mRNA vaccines.
Wikipedia’s current entry is available below. The content—comprising just eight paragraphs—is entirely inadequate. Other than stating that the organization “appears to have been formed in September 2021”, and that it was “founded by Jennifer A. Hibberd and Tess Lawrie”, nothing substantive is mentioned about what WCH is or what we do, despite its goals, values, and initiatives being represented on our website. Secondly, most of the article attempts to smear WCH by association. The bulk of the content refers to people or organizations who are simply part of the broader health freedom network but not part of the WCH team.
Unfortunately, editing Wikipedia articles for accuracy is not as easy as many people have been led to believe. As such, we have shared below an example of what an accurate, unbiased account of the World Council for Health and its activities could look like. Below that you will find Wikipedia’s entry as of 9 January 2024.
World Council for Health Wikipedia (Ours):
The World Council for Health (WCH) is a grassroots, people-powered, non-profit initiative based in Bath, United Kingdom that seeks to broaden public health knowledge and sense-making through science and shared wisdom.
WCH was founded by Dr Jennifer Hibberd, a pediatric dental surgeon, and Dr Tess Lawrie, a medical doctor and former consultant to the World Health Organization, in September 2021 in response to growing distrust in local, national, and global public health authorities leaving people in fear and confused regarding how to best care for themselves, their families, and their communities.
The World Council for Health has more than 200 Coalition Partners in over 50 countries around the world and is currently in the process of decentralization, having activated more than 25 WCH Country Councils. WCH frequently produces video content in the form of live shows, events, and webinars hosted by its team and committees. According to its website, committees include Mind Health, Law and Activism, and Health Science.
Activities:
The World Council for Health promotes holistic health and sovereignty and encourages people to take back control of their health. In September 2021, as part of the organization’s launch, WCH released an at-home treatment guide for Covid-19. The guide relies on evidence-based strategies that people can access at home. From the start, the World Council for Health has encouraged anyone suffering from symptoms of Covid-19 to stay calm and to trust their immune systems. In the event of a severe infection, readers of the guide are instructed to seek counsel from a trusted health practitioner or visit the hospital.
In November 2021, the World Council for Health released their Spike Protein Detox guide offering numerous tips to clear both viral and vaccine-induced spike proteins from the body. This guide has now been translated into 27 languages.
Also in 2021, the World Council for Health launched a Cease and Desist Campaign to raise awareness of the documented harms being caused by Covid-19 vaccines. WCH was one of the first organizations to call for a complete stop to the global vaccination campaign.
In 2022, WCH held its first international conference in Bath, United Kingdom. The Better Way Conference, emceed by Del Bigtree of The HighWire, brought together speakers and guests from around the world to discuss topics relevant to both the medical community and the average person. The conference was also livestreamed.
The Council’s 7 Principles of a Better Way emerged from the topics discussed at the first Better Way Conference. The principles and associated Better Way Charter guide WCH, its partners, and its Country Councils.
Also in 2022, the World Council for Health published a Pharmacovigilance Report confirming sufficient evidence from independent analysis of official data for the recall of all Covid-19 vaccines.
In 2023, WCH began producing policy documents aimed at policymakers and elected officials. The first brief, published in April, is a 45-page document in response to the proposed amendments to the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (Rejecting Monopoly Power Over Global Public Health). In August, WCH’s second policy brief addressing the effects of unregulated digitalization (Effects of Unregulated Digitalization on Health and Democracy) was published, followed by a policy brief addressing human trafficking (Human Trafficking: A Call for Action) published in September.
The World Council for Health also hosted its second Better Way Conference, again held in Bath, United Kingdom, in June 2023. Emceed by Neil Oliver, this conference also attracted speakers and attendees from around the world.
The World Council for Health began a decentralization campaign in 2023. There are now 27 autonomous Country Councils set up around the world.
World Council for Health Wikipedia (Theirs, as of 9 Jan 2024):
The World Council for Health is a pseudo-medical organisation dedicated to spreading misinformation to discourage COVID-19 vaccination, and promoting fake COVID-19 treatments.[1]
The organization’s online appearance is that of a mainstream health organization.[2] It appears to have been formed in September 2021 and its published leadership contains people which an Australian Associated Press fact check described as “figures who have promoted unfounded conspiracy theories”.[3] The group was founded by Jennifer A. Hibberd and Tess Lawrie, an obstetrician and founder of the “BIRD Group”, which erroneously promotes ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment.[4]
The World Council for Health is affiliated with Children’s Health Defense, an antivaccine association led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr..[5]
Activities:
The World Council for Health promotes misinformation linking COVID-19 vaccination with death.[6] In 2021 the group promoted claims on social media of a “multi-system inflammatory condition” which they called “Post-COVID injection syndrome”. The condition is however not recognized in medical science, and there is no evidence any such condition is caused by vaccination.[7]
In May 2022 the group was involved in a conference in Bath, England which Vice World News described as a meeting of the “biggest names in the global anti-vax and coronavirus conspiracy scenes”. The local authorities withdrew permission to use their venues after reviewing the publicity of the World Council for Health falsely claiming that COVID-19 vaccines were unsafe.[8]
In July 2022, the US-cardiologist Peter McCullough, an anti-vaccine advocate, falsely claimed that vaccinations have been globally recalled due to more than 40,000 deaths worldwide at the request of the World Council for Health. However, the Food and Drug Administration had not listed any recalls for the four Covid-19 vaccines authorised in the US, as confirmed in an email by Abby Capobianco, an agency spokesperson, to AFP.[9]
The UK cardiologist Aseem Malhotra called in September 2022 for the “immediate and complete suspension of Covid-19 vaccine” in a press conference with the World Council for Health, because of “a greater risk of serious adverse events from the vaccines than being hospitalised from COVID-19”, repeating his conclusions in a narrative review article in the Journal of Insulin resistance. However, his findings were based on anecdotal evidence, low-quality studies and cherry-picking, where mainly studies that suggested a negative effect of COVID-19 vaccines were cited, and the broader body of evidence showing that the vaccines are safe and effective was not acknowledged.[6][10][11]
The group promotes ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, although research has determined it is ineffective for this purpose.[12]
For a deeper look into just how unreliable Wikipedia is, check out our Substack piece “ Wikipedia’s Smear Piece Represents a Badge of Honour“.