“An Inconvenient Study”: Del Bigtree’s film on the Henry Ford data that was never published
Why it matters
Most people will never read a reanalysis. A film reaches them. Bigtree’s documentary is how the Henry Ford study became a household argument, and it is free to watch on The HighWire.
“An Inconvenient Study,” released in fall 2025 by Del Bigtree and The HighWire, tells the story of a Henry Ford Health study comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated children that was completed around 2020 and never published.
The film argues that the results, which showed more chronic illness among vaccinated children, were shelved because of what they found. Henry Ford Health says the study was not published because its data and methods were not sound enough. The same data was later reanalyzed by the McCullough Foundation’s Nicolas Hulscher and colleagues and presented to Michigan lawmakers.
The full feature is posted on The HighWire’s site.
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