Many Mennonite community members in West Texas feel “frustrated” and “targeted” by mainstream media coverage of the current measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, Tina Siemens, a Mennonite business owner and award-winning author told The Defender in an exclusive interview today.

Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, says that now there are thousands and thousands of studies showing that mRNA based vaccine products are not safe.

We are constantly told, with justification, that many of our problems are caused by the ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’, ‘radical progressive’ or ‘woke’ elites who rule over us.

Honey bees may be dying at an unprecedented rate this winter, with more than 1 million colonies lost, according to a survey of U.S. beekeepers by the nonprofit organization Project Apis m. More than a dozen government and academic scientists have mobilized to search for the cause.

Senate Democrats and some Republicans liked the status quo at the National Institutes of Health before the second Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency started closely scrutinizing its grant decisions, headcount and wildly generous reimbursement for “indirect costs” to institutions at the expense of money for their researchers.

There is no shortage of people telling us that we have reached an important inflection point regarding the world’s polar sea ice sheets

In 2017, when President Trump took office the first time, U.S. space policy was adrift.

As a cardiologist I am certain that COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis, like all other forms of myocarditis, can lead to cardiac arrest if not properly managed.

All things can be, and usually are, true. It’s true that people surrounding RFK Jr. have influence—some of whom do not share our goals. It’s true that the opposition will make things as difficult as possible for him. It’s true that he is under attack and has weapons trained on him from all sides.

In an interview in 1964, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke stated:

Hardly a couple rounds, more like 1 minute of the first rounds before Ian does his “deliver unto me peer review and evidence” routine… I felt like I was in some PhD philosophy class, but I was having a good time.

The end is near.

In 2021, President Xi Jinping promised that China would “strictly limit the increase in coal consumption over the 14th five-year plan period (2021-2025) and phase down in the 15th five-year plan period (2026-2030)”

A new study adds to evidence that farmers in the U.S. corn belt have over-planted a type of genetically modified corn, leading to estimated losses of more than $1 billion as the pests the corn was designed to repel have grown resistant over time

One bureaucratic decision unleashed the climate hysteria that has hijacked our economy, gutted industries, and warped environmental priorities for over a decade.

At best, measles is a very uncomfortable illness. At worst, it can be lethal without adequate nutrition and supportive medical care.