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19-463: ICAN may refer to: Organizations [ edit ] Informed Consent Action Network , a US antivaccine group. Institute of Chartered Accountants of Namibia Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons International Children Assistance Network International Christian Academy of Nagoya ,

38-529: A Star of David at an anti-vaccination event, attempting to compare the treatment of those opposed to vaccination with the persecution of the Jewish people . Bigtree's anti-vaccine advocacy has been described by anti-vaccination movement critic physician David Gorski as "fear mongering based on misinformation". In 2020, Facebook and Youtube removed Del Bigtree's anti-vaccination show The Highwire from their social media platforms, as part of efforts to limit

57-636: A 60% increase from the previous year. The group received a significant part of its funding in the early days of the pandemic from the charitable foundations from investment firm that anonymize donations: $ 235,000 from Fidelity Investments ' foundation (2021-22), $ 600,000 from The Vanguard Group 's foundation (2020 to 2022), $ 400,000 from Schwab Charitable (2020 to 2022), $ 135,000 from the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust (2020 and 2021). It also received $ 15,000 from Donors Trust (2021). In 2022, ICAN received

76-796: A defunct school in Japan International Commission for Air Navigation , the predecessor of the International Civil Aviation Organization Nationalist Canarian Initiative , a former political party in the Canary Islands Other uses [ edit ] Icán River , a river in Guatemala ICAN: Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition , a medical journal Interim Capability for Airborne Networking ,

95-487: A query, asking questions that likely do not have government records." She added, "when the government, predictably, says they do not have such records (because many of CDC's statements on scientific matters are based, for example, on scientific literature rather than government records), ICAN misrepresents that as showing there is no evidence - where all the answer shows is that there is no specific record." Selz Foundation Bernard Thierry Selz (born February 7, 1940)

114-685: A specialty out of challenging vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2018, ICAN filed Freedom of information lawsuits to force the Food and Drug Administration , the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release administrative reports on childhood vaccine injury HHS is required to file with Congress. HHS replied that they could not find any such reports. While ICAN claimed

133-489: A system operated by the US Air Force International Code of Area Nomenclature , a universal naming system for areas of endemism used in biogeography See also [ edit ] I Can (disambiguation) Icahn (disambiguation) ICANN ICAN-II (spacecraft) JCAN Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

152-605: A total of $ 13.4 million in funding. In 2019, ICAN paid a salary of $ 232,000 to Del Bigtree as its CEO, $ 162,000 to its Executive Producer Jenn Sherry Parry, $ 138,000 to its Chief Administrative Officer Catharine Layton, and 111,000 to Patrick Layton as Creative Director. An article in Rolling Stone states that Layton stumbled upon the anti-vaccine movement on social media after her two sons were diagnosed with autism. By 2022, Bigtree's compensation had increased to $ 284,000. Despite spreading misinformation about vaccines,

171-807: Is a fund manager and anti-vaccination supporter based in Manhattan . His wife Lisa serves as president of the Selz Foundation, a charitable group. They are major financiers of anti-vaccination groups . Selz earned a bachelor's of art degree from Columbia College in 1960. He is married to Lisa Selz; they have two adult children. Selz founded Selz Capital in November 2003. The firm is headquartered in New York City. It has approximately $ 750 million from 24 high net worth clients under management. It employs four people. Previously, he served as

190-747: The Senior Managing Director at ING Furman Selz . He founded that firm in 1973. He began his career in the securities industry in 1960 at Lazard Freres . The Selz Foundation has been described operating "with a focus on humanitarian, educational, geriatric, homeopathic , animal causes and the arts." The foundation has been a major supporter of LaGuardia Community College in Queens and Columbia University where it has endowed professorships in medieval art and Pre-Columbian art and archaeology. The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests. The Selz Foundation provides roughly three-fourths of

209-501: The absence of these reports means that the federal government has neglected to properly study the effect of vaccines, scientists and the fact-checking site PolitiFact pointed out a large number of in-depth studies were undertaken and their results shared with the public, even though HHS failed to file the required reports. Dorit Reiss , a Professor of Law at the University of California , explained, "ICAN uses FOIA requests as

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228-531: The funding for the Informed Consent Action Network , an anti-vaccination charity led by Lisa Selz and Del Bigtree . The foundation also gave $ 1.6 million to two non-profits, one of which (AMC Foundation) funded Autism Media Channel LLC, the group that produced the 2016 American documentary film Vaxxed . . In total, the Selz Foundation is estimated to have donated over $ 3 million to the anti-vaccine movement. Bernard Selz sits on

247-507: The group received a federal loan of $ 165,600 through the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020. It also holds Facebook fundraisers, this contributing $ 23,000 to its bottom line in 2021. Like other anti-vaccination groups, ICAN directs their Instagram followers to a fundraising tool. Much of the group's funding in spent on legal fees, with a total of $ 13.8 million being paid to law firm Siri & Glimstad. Given

266-729: The impact they had during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic , ethicist Arthur Caplan commented that funding ICAN and similar groups might have grave consequence in future epidemics. In 2019, Bigtree was a keynote speaker at several anti-vaccination events targeting the ultra-Orthodox Jewish in Brooklyn and in Rockland County. He has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum for wearing

285-513: The population that distrusts expertise and government. Bigtree regularly appears in events that cater to those ideologies, including an event in October, 2020, at Trump National Doral Miami , a Florida resort owned by Donald Trump, where several leading figures of the QAnon movement also spoke. ICAN spends a large part of its budget on legal fees, paid to Siri & Glimstad. The law firm has made

304-734: The safety and efficacy of vaccines. ICAN was established with a $ 100,000 grant from the Selz Foundation . Its budget ballooned to $ 1.4 million in 2017, with one million coming from the Selz Foundation, making ICAN the most well-funded anti-vaccination group in the United States that year. In 2019, the Selz had stopped their funding, but ICAN received $ 2.46 million funneled through the donor-directed charitable trust investment firm T. Rowe Price , out of total revenue of $ 3.46 million. ICAN reported making $ 5.5 million in revenue in 2020,

323-401: The spread of disinformation about COVID-19 . ICAN sued them for that, alleging the audience of the videos have decreased by half since they had to relocate it on their own website, although it continued streaming on Twitter . ICAN lost the court case in early 2022. Experts observing the anti-vaccination movement believe ICAN is crafting its communications in order to appeal to the segment of

342-463: The title ICAN . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ICAN&oldid=1125683555 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Informed Consent Action Network ICAN

361-545: Was founded in 2016 by television producer Del Bigtree, after the release of the movie Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe , which he wrote and produced, with anti-vaccination activist Andrew Wakefield directing. The national attention Bigtree gained with the movie and its promotion tour allowed the newly-formed group to quickly assume a leading role among the anti-vaccination movement. Scientists have countered many of ICAN's statements, arguments against vaccination being contradicted by overwhelming scientific consensus about

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