Learn The Risk
American anti-vaccination group
Learn The Risk is an American anti-vaccine group founded in 2015. It is known for its billboard campaigns asserting vaccines are responsible for a large number of deaths of young children.
Founder Brandy Vaughan died in December 2020; no replacement executive director has been named. Five and a half years before she died, she made a video stating that she was in fear for her life and that she was not suicidal. The coroner report states she died of a blood clot.
Mission
Learn The Risk was founded in 2015 by Brandy Vaughan, as a branch of an organization she also founded, the Council for Vaccine Safety. Vaughan led both groups as executive director. She described herself as a former employee of pharmaceutical company Merck and an activist for natural health.
The group is widely described as being anti-vaccination.
With an annual budget of less than US$100,000 according to tax filings, Learn The Risk does not have the wide reach of larger anti-vaccination groups such as Informed Consent Action Network and Children's Health Defense.
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