Heritage Foundation Partnership With Vaccine Skeptic Organization Exposed

The Cen­ter for Media and Democ­ra­cy (CMD) has exposed the Her­itage Foun­da­tion’s part­ner­ship with a promi­nent anti-vac­cine/med­ical con­trar­i­an group, the Inde­pen­dent Med­ical Alliance (IMA), has been revealed, under­scor­ing grow­ing ties between far-right polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tions and the move­ment push­ing unproven COVID-19 treat­ments and vac­cine skep­ti­cism. This alliance gains par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance giv­en that IMA is close­ly allied with Health and Human Ser­vices (HHS) Sec­re­tary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The arti­cle begins:

In April, promi­nent mem­bers of the anti-vac­cine/med­ical con­trar­i­an move­ment descend­ed upon Atlanta for a con­fer­ence called “Hon­est Med­i­cine: Redefin­ing Health.” It was the fourth annu­al gath­er­ing of the Inde­pen­dent Med­ical Alliance (IMA) – for­mer­ly called Front Line Covid–19 Crit­i­cal Care (FLCCC) Alliance and best known for its pro­mo­tion of iver­mectin as a cure for Covid – which is close­ly allied with Health and Human Ser­vices (HHS) Sec­re­tary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While IMA did not list the conference’s high-pow­ered, polit­i­cal­ly tied part­ners on its web­site, their names were dis­played at the event itself, accord­ing to one attendee (see pho­to below). In addi­tion to more pre­dictable part­ners like Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vac­cine mega char­i­ty Kennedy found­ed and ran until 2023, and the Brown­stone Insti­tute, the lib­er­tar­i­an out­fit cre­at­ed by push­ers of the herd-immu­ni­ty-through-mass-infec­tion Covid strat­e­gy favored by the first Trump admin­is­tra­tion, the inclu­sion of The Her­itage Foun­da­tion, the far-right think tank behind the Project 2025 blue­print Trump appears to be fol­low­ing ver­ba­tim in his sec­ond term, was a surprise.

Read more: https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/02/heritage-foundation-partners-with-ivermectin-group/

Key Points

• The Her­itage Foun­da­tion, a promi­nent far-right think tank, has part­nered with the Inde­pen­dent Med­ical Alliance (IMA), a group known for pro­mot­ing iver­mectin for COVID-19.
• IMA, for­mer­ly FLCCC Alliance, is close­ly allied with Health and Human Ser­vices (HHS) Sec­re­tary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and shares ties with Chil­dren’s Health Defense (CHD) and the Brown­stone Institute.
• The part­ner­ship high­lights increas­ing polit­i­cal pow­er for groups pro­mot­ing unproven med­ical treat­ments and anti-vac­cine sen­ti­ment, despite sci­en­tif­ic con­sen­sus on iver­mect­in’s inef­fec­tive­ness against COVID-19.
• The col­lab­o­ra­tion aligns with Kennedy’s “Make Amer­i­ca Healthy Again” move­ment and broad­er MAGA agen­da, influ­enc­ing pub­lic health pol­i­cy and chal­leng­ing main­stream med­ical journals.

The Heritage Foundation- Centerpiece of the GNCA in America

The Her­itage Foun­da­tion, found­ed on Feb­ru­ary 16, 1973 by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feul­ner, and Joseph Coors, ini­tial­ly emerged as a con­ser­v­a­tive pol­i­cy insti­tute empha­siz­ing free-mar­ket eco­nom­ics, lim­it­ed gov­ern­ment, and a strong nation­al defense. It rose to promi­nence with its first Man­date for Lead­er­ship in 1981—a blue­print cred­it­ed with influ­enc­ing the Rea­gan administration’s agen­da. Through­out the 1980s and 1990s, the orga­ni­za­tion main­tained a rel­a­tive­ly tra­di­tion­al, con­ser­v­a­tive pos­ture, focus­ing on wel­fare reform, tax cuts, and deregulation.

How­ev­er, in the post-2016 polit­i­cal land­scape, Her­itage piv­ot­ed sharply toward nation­al con­ser­vatism, shed­ding its pri­or empha­sis on lib­er­tar­i­an eco­nom­ics for a pop­ulist agen­da under­scor­ing nation­al iden­ti­ty, immi­gra­tion restric­tion, social con­ser­vatism, and strong exec­u­tive pow­er. Under Pres­i­dent Kevin Roberts, this shift cul­mi­nat­ed in Project 2025, launched in 2022—a sprawl­ing, more than 900-page “Man­date for Lead­er­ship 2025: The Con­ser­v­a­tive Promise,” com­plete with per­son­nel data­bas­es, train­ing mod­ules, agency play­books, and poli­cies aimed at remak­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment under new nation­al­ist pri­or­i­ties. This tran­si­tion marks Heritage’s evo­lu­tion from a prag­mat­ic pol­i­cy shop into the insti­tu­tion­al core of today’s nation­al con­ser­v­a­tive movement.

In June 2025, the Her­itage Foun­da­tion released an astound­ing report call­ing for the Trump admin­is­tra­tion to estab­lish a glob­al alliance of con­ser­v­a­tive, nation­al­ist, and pop­ulist move­ments to counter the transna­tion­al Left­’s insti­tu­tion­al dom­i­nance, and pre­cise­ly align­ing with the Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report’s (GIOR) descrip­tion of the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA).

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